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Abstract.The paper examines wage linkages between private and public sectors in Sweden by means of Granger causality tests and estimation of error correction models. Wage changes in central and local governments are Granger caused by private sector wage changes. Public sector wage increases involve error correction mechanisms; the lower the relative wage in the past, the higher the current wage increases. Increases in unemployment are associated with relative wage improvements for public sector employees.

ISSN:1121-7081    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9914.1992.tb00240.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract.Reviewing empirical studies concerning the corporatism‐flexibility‐performance nexus the paper discusses decentralized and centralized bargaining systems. Revenue pay systems, concession bargaining and two‐tier wage systems as means to enhance wage flexibility at the firm level are also considered. Both theoretical and empirical evidence is presented, showing that unions are bargaining for greater employment security for the already employed (the insiders). In return, unions are ready to accept greater wage flexibility and even wage decreases. By contrast, the insider‐outsider theory does suggest how unions may accentuate involuntary unemployment, because there may be ways in which a union can help to raise the wages of the insiders without reducing their chances of continued emp

ISSN:1121-7081    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9914.1992.tb00241.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract.European employers' different policies of personnel management and of industrial relations depend to some extent on the technological and organisational choices they make, but cultural ‐ and especially institutional ‐ factors play an even greater role, in a period in which previous models for action clearly appear inadequate and in which, as a consequence, uncertainty grows.This article illustrates a conceptual and analytical framework which helps understand the scope and the meaning of the recent managerial search for a greater labour consensus noted by many observers. Then it shows how this framework can be used, by applying it to the analysis of the Italian case. Finally, it tries to transform some of the propositions discussed into questions and hypotheses which should guide comparative resea

ISSN:1121-7081    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9914.1992.tb00242.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract.Although there exists an extensive literature which uses econometric techniques to examine the process of unionisation in the industrial countries, a well established theory about the individual propensity to join the union has still to be developed. We feel that the workers' personal relationships in the working places impinge on their decision to unionise. To this end, we have set out a coercion model of trade union membership without compulsory membership, based on the rank and file union members' harassment activities. Union members use these unfriendly activities to eliminate the free‐rider ploblem, encouraging unionisation and reducing the cost of joining a unio

ISSN:1121-7081    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9914.1992.tb00243.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract.Many problems that decision makers have to solve concern strategic environments. In such situations, the structural uncertainty they must face is overcome by using their representations of reality: people take decisions on the basis of their cognitive maps. In collective high level decision‐making, conflicts can rise among different frames and definitions of the problem. The process through which the actors can reach a joint solution has a bargaining nature. The decision‐makers' cognitive maps contain, besides the personal view of the problem to be solved, the perception of the position and bargaining power of the other actors. Strategic moves (commitments, threats…) can modify the partners' perceptions of the possibilities of success of their policy. As such, the decision‐makers' cognitive maps finally become “complementary”, permitting a

ISSN:1121-7081    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9914.1992.tb00244.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract.This paper shows that the explicit consideration of the “expected inflation effect” makes it more likely that increases in wage and price flexibility reduce employment variability. This result, obtained in a monopolistic competition model with synchronized contracts, casts doubts on some existing consensus in the literature pointing towards the opposite view. Wage and price flexibility, althoughceteris paribusdesirable, is however shown to be an inferior substitute for optimally designed demand managem

ISSN:1121-7081    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9914.1992.tb00245.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract.The paper analyzes the pattern of time allocation between work and leisure in industrialized countries. Some alternative explanations as to the slowing down in the shortening of working hours to those offered by the traditional economic theory are presented, in the light of empirical findings in the United States. Workers' endogenous preferences seem to play an important role in explaining this unforeseen trend in time allocation.

ISSN:1121-7081    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9914.1992.tb00246.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract.Labour market transitions of different groups of Italian workers are analysed and typical working histories of young first‐job seekers and prime age unemployed compared. On the basis of a “search” theoretical framework a microeconometric analysis is undertaken by means of multinomial logit models applied to panel data on socio‐economic characteristics of Italian households. The results highlight the existence of phenomena of state and duration dependence. Moreover, while for prime age unemployed the behavioural distinction between unemployment and out of labour force states appears to be quite artificial, for young first‐job seekers it seems to be su

ISSN:1121-7081    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9914.1992.tb00247.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract.According to some neo‐institutional economists, the trade‐off ofperestroikais between the benefits of solving economic problems via institutional changes and the costs of upsetting thenomenklatura. The “sub‐institutional” analysis shows instead a series of organizational adjustments of the productive system that can render this dilemma less pressing, provide Western financial aid increases. This aid will ease the social and political tensions of the transition much more than helping the start of a productivity drive in Sov

ISSN:1121-7081    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9914.1992.tb00248.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY