Does International Outsourcing Really Lower Workers’ Income? We analyze the impact of international outsourcing on income, if the domestic labor market is imperfect. We distinguish in our analysis between the case where the parties negotiate over the wage only and where they negotiate over both wage and profit share. We find that in the first case outsourcing will reduce (increase) workers’ inc...

This paper utilizes unique survey data on labor union coverage at the firm level to examine union effects on the profitability of 705 U.S. companies during the 1970s. Market value and earnings are estimated to be about 10%-15% lower in an average unionized company than in a nonunion company, following extensive control for firm and industry characteristics. Deleterious union effects on firm pro...

There are sharp and persistent differences in the level of hostile takeover activity across countries. Building on institutional theory and the concept of social legitimacy, we predict that common-law (English) corporate legal traditions, policymaking stability, the extent to which stock trading is formalized, and individualism as a cultural trait increase the level of hostile takeover activity...

BACKGROUND The students' perception of working conditions in hospitals hasn't been subject of research in Germany so far. However the perception plays an important role talking about the sustainability of working conditions. The iCept Study wants to examine the perception of medical students compared to the perception of practicing physicians. METHODS/DESIGN The perception will be investigate...

The abstract contributes to the literature by identifying a new form of voluntarism, employer-led voluntarism Employer Forums in United Kingdom. carry out private voluntary regulation raise labour and social standards within their member firms through introducing codes conducts implementing norms assessments, benchmarking, certification. article compares this with traditional approach where uni...

Much is known about innovative union strategies to organise young workers, but little how and why they self-organise outside of unions. Based on field research in Slovenia, we examine ‘next-generation welfare professionals’, a diverse group students, unemployed graduates precarious workers attempting enter state-regulated, relatively well unionised education social protection professions. We ar...

The ongoing economic reform of India has completely bypassed the labour policies, despite implementing dramatic changes in trade, industries and capital market. Notwithstanding this limitation, the registered manufacturing sector has witnessed a steady rise in the number of factories as well as expansion in aggregate output, which suggest an underlying trend of firm entry. Our purpose is to see...

Abstract This article analyses the role of immigration policy as a distinct source skills supply in liberal market economies. It draws upon interviews with representatives employer associations and trade unions Australian construction hospitality industries to identify how labour actors make sense function policy. Rather than ‘complementing’ or ‘undermining’ training other domestic institutions...

The 2013 Constitution of Zimbabwe entrenches the broad right to fair labour practices. is given effect in Part III Labour Act (Chapter 28:01), which provides an exhaustive list unfair practices can be committed by employers, trade unions, workers' committees, and other persons. predates Constitution. constitutionalisation necessarily carries with it attendant difficulties reconciling new rights...

Excerpt] The purpose of this chapter is to present a framework for the analysis of union coalition-building and demonstrate its utility using comparative empirical material mainly from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom though we also comment on union action in Italy and Spain. In what follows, we seek to define union-coalitions and specify their functions, identify a variety of...