Purpose This paper aims to examine the cycle of labour protests in Sweden, comparing contentious actions trade unions public and private sectors over 40 years. Prior studies have focused on industrial conflicts or protests, but a long-term perspective broad protest repertoire across is lacking. The goal test argument diversification action differences between sectors. Design/methodology/approac...

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The last two decades of the 20 th century and the first decade of the 21 st century witnessed the decline and eventual closure of large scale industries in Indian cities such as Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Kolkata and Kanpur. The closure of large scale industries not only resulted in the dispersal of once organised workforce into the informal sector but also had negative implications for the politics of...

Income support for working low income families (the " working poor ") is on top of the political agenda in Switzerland. The current social assistance system is considered inadequate to support working poor households. Labour unions propose the introduction of a general minimum wage, whereas the Swiss government promotes in-work benefits. Based on a structural labour supply model this paper prov...

This paper critically examines the trade and technology theories which dominate the large and growing literature on the determinants of changes in income inequality in advanced industrial countries during the 1980s and 1990s. Both theories, despite their rather different approaches to the subject are shown to have a common premise: advanced countries have experienced a fall in the relative dema...

The present study examines website accessibility on the labour union's regarding their ability to provide a friendly for people with disabilities. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) were employed assess web accessibility. Labour union confederation’s had significant errors adaptable, navigable, operable, and low-contrast elements. Besides, severe alerts errors. Generally, most websites...

In this paper we analyse the relative importance of individual ability and labour market institutions, including public sector wage setting and trade unions, in determining earnings differences across different types of employment. To do this we use the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study data from South Africa, which show extremely large average earnings differentials across different types of...

Legal status of persons performing gainful employment on a basis other than relationship in the light Act Resolution Collective Disputes The amendment to Trade Unions, which entered into force 1 January 2019, significantly expanded scope people who have right associate trade unions. As consequence—in connection with Art. 6 resolving collective disputes—the provisions disputes concerning employe...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: F12 J50 L11 Keywords: Free entry Labour union Trade cost In contrast to the existing partial equilibrium literature considering the effects of a trade cost reduction on unionised wage under a given market structure, we show the effects by determining the domestic market structure endogenously. A lower trade cost reduces the number of active domestic fir...