This paper is concerned with the impact of unions on the investment rate in British industry. On the basis of an analysis of some 72 industries in the manu... J Lhomme,JH Dunning - 《British Journal of Industrial Relations》 被引量: 698发表: 1960年 The China syndrome: Local labor market...
Overall, public opinion toward organized labor has not shifted very much over time. Taken together, these papers present a bleak picture about the health of American democracy in the coming era of smaller and weaker unions.Indiana University.Bucci, Laura C.Indiana University....
consumer purchasing power that is needed to fuel demand in the economy. The decline has been much discussed and the rising power of companies vis-à-vis workers—whether from new technology, globalization, the hollowing out of labor unions, ormarket consolidation—has sh...
for union organising focusing on the UK and its seafaring labour. It examines the creation of Nautilus International (NI) Union via a merger of unions for maritime professionals across different countries in Europe initially beginning with Great Britain, the Netherlands and later Switzerland. This was...
Besides, their major means of organizing and protecting themselves — labor unions — have been decimated. Four decades ago more than a third of private-sector workers were unionized. Now, fewer than 7 percent belong to a union. Second, students don’t dare rock the boat. ...
Recessions inevitably, and understandably, herald anxiety and much discussion about the headline performance of the economy, chiefly employment, income and GDP growth. Various indicators, such as exports, investment or consumer spending are closely monit
Also cited as putting downward pressure on the wages of less-educated workers are intensifying global competition and immigration, the decline of the proportion of workers belonging to unions, the decline in the real value of the minimum wage, the increasing need for computer skills, and the incr...
Recent research finds that financialization and technological change have had a variety of negative effects on labor, including reducing low-skill workers' wages and increasing income inequality. In this article, I examine the effect on trade unions of one type of financialization, equity market ...
" Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Economic Policy Review - Glaeser, Kahn () Citation Context ...s. For a sample of largely suburban communities, this seems a reasonable result. In our sample of large cities, rent-seeking by public employee unions (Gyourko and Tracy, 1989) or poverty ...
" Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Economic Policy Review - Glaeser, Kahn () Citation Context ...s. For a sample of largely suburban communities, this seems a reasonable result. In our sample of large cities, rent-seeking by public employee unions (Gyourko and Tracy, 1989) or poverty ...