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Employment strategies in response to the first Covid lockdown: A typology of French workplaces Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Philippe Askenazy, Clément Brébion, Pierre Courtioux, Christine Erhel, Malo Mofakhami
This research connects the literature on crisis management and on firm flexibility to investigate human resource (HR) strategies in response to unexpected crises such as the Covid‐19 pandemic. Leveraging data from French workplaces we identify five main types of strategies implemented during the first lockdown, which go beyond the massive use of teleworking or the use of short‐time work. The analysis
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The geography of collective bargaining in French multi‐establishment companies Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Philippe Askenazy, Clémentine Cottineau
Despite growing interest in the firm bargaining process, little research focuses on the structure of bargaining within multi‐establishment firms. We question whether running negotiations at the workplace level and/or firm level is a strategic choice for employers. We hypothesize that the level chosen depends on the geography of the firm. Employers face a trade‐off: workplace bargaining is more efficient
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Displaced or depressed? Working in automatable jobs and mental health Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Sylvie Blasco, Julie Rochut, Benedicte Rouland
Automation may destroy jobs and change the labor demand structure, thereby potentially impacting workers' mental health. Implementing propensity score matching on French individual survey data, we find that working in an automatable job is associated with a 3 pp increase in the probability of suffering from mental disorders. Fear of automation through fear of job loss, expectation of a required change
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Higher penalties, broader definitions, and national standards: Did harmonized Australian workplace health and safety laws reduce workers' compensation receipt? Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Anam Bilgrami, Henry Cutler, Kompal Sinha
A quasi-experiment was created in Australian policy between 2012 and 2013 when workplace health and safety laws were harmonized in all but two jurisdictions. This reform expanded definitions for duty of care, introduced criminal enforcement, and increased penalties. Using stacked difference-in-difference estimation, we fail to find overall reduced workers' compensation probability over the post-reform
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Right-to-Work revisited Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 John Meszaros, Brian Quistorff
This paper uses synthetic controls to reevaluate the passage of Right-to-Work legislation in several states and its effect on union density levels in those states. Building upon recent work, we include data from several new legislative changes and also pool evidence across events to increase the inferential power for detecting a common effect. This adds to the literature by expanding the number of
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Do all job changes increase wellbeing? Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Simonetta Longhi, Alita Nandi, Mark Bryan, Sara Connolly, Cigdem Gedikli
We provide a comprehensive framework, based on person–environment fit, for evaluating the relationship between types of job change and wellbeing, and estimate it using fixed-effects methods applied to UK longitudinal data. Changing job is associated with large swings in job satisfaction, but not all job changes are equal. Changes in workplace are associated with increased job satisfaction only when
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Performance-related pay and the UK gender pay gap Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Melanie Jones, Ezgi Kaya
Applying decomposition methods to data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, we highlight the importance of performance-related pay to the contemporary UK gender pay gap. We find that the lower probability of females being employed in performance-related pay jobs explains a sizeable proportion of the gender pay gap, particularly at the top end of the annual earnings distribution. The latter
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The distinct effects of information technologies and communication technologies on skill demand Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Sotiris Blanas
Covering the bulk of economic activity in ten developed countries over 1982–2005, this paper is the first to study the distinct effects of Information Technologies (IT) and Communication Technologies (CT) on labor, and in particular, the relative demand for different education groups of workers. Consistent with evidence on automation-induced job and skill polarization, IT capital intensity decreased
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Do unions care about low-paid workers? Evidence from Norway Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Elin Svarstad
One of the core objectives of unions is to raise the wages of the lowest paid. Utilizing a panel of individual-matched employee–employer data covering the Norwegian private sector in the period 2000–2014, I investigate how workplace union density is related to individual low-pay risk. By exploiting changes in tax deductions for union members in Norway as a source of exogenous variation, a negative
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Coworker networks and the labor market outcomes of displaced workers: Evidence from Portugal Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Jose Garcia-Louzao, Marta Silva
The use of social contacts in the labor market is widespread. This paper investigates the association between personal connections and hiring probabilities as well as re-employment outcomes of displaced workers in Portugal. The hiring analysis indicates that displaced workers with a direct link to a firm through a former coworker are three times more likely to be hired compared to workers displaced
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Still part of the game—corporatism and political exchanges in two small states Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Mikkel Mailand
This study of Danish and Dutch work and welfare policies since the Great Recession questions the dominant picture of trade unions as being too weak and irrelevant for tripartite regulation. The frequency of tripartite agreements has not decreased, and social partners are still able to obtain important concessions. In addition to well-described resources, the article shows that trade unions and employers'
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Politicized shopping in the gig economy: Retaliation and solidarity on the “other side” of the app Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Michael David Maffie
In this mixed-methods article, the author investigates how gig workers behave when they become consumers of these products. The author finds that workers engage in politicized shopping – where they order from platform companies with comparably better labor standards – both to retaliate against companies with substandard labor practices and support their fellow gig workers. By examining worker behavior
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Do supplementary jobs for welfare recipients increase the chance of welfare exit? Evidence from Germany Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Alexander Mosthaf, Thorsten Schank, Stefan Schwarz
Welfare recipients in Germany are allowed to take up supplementary jobs while receiving welfare. In the present study, we use the German Panel Study “Labour Market and Social Security” (PASS) for the years 2006–2014 to analyze the impact of these supplementary jobs on the chances of welfare exit. Dynamic multinomial logit models controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and endogenous initial conditions
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Vocational training during the COVID-19 pandemic: Under what conditions does the public support state subsidies for training firms? Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Anna Heusler, Monika Senghaas
This article presents novel empirical findings on whether and under what conditions the public supports apprenticeship subsidies paid to training firms during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the literature on justice research and deservingness theory, we construct an experimental factorial survey among individuals from German administrative records. The findings suggest selective support targeting
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“Which side are you on?” A historical study of union membership composition in seven Western countries Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Cyprien Batut, Ulysse Lojkine, Paolo Santini
This study uses surveys from the past 60 years to study union membership in Denmark, France, West Germany, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We first revisit aggregate union densities finding that, for France and Italy, they were at times under- and overestimated, respectively. Second, we document the evolution of the composition of union membership in terms of gender, occupation
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How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect men's and women's returns to unionization? Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Eunice S. Han
Using data from the Current Population Survey for the period 2015 to 2021, I study union-nonunion differences in employment, wages and other terms and conditions before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Analyses are run separately for men and women. I find that, compared to non-union workers, union workers were better able to retain employment, less likely to do telework, and more likely to receive
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Unions as insurance: Workplace unionization and workers' outcomes during COVID-19 Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Nils Braakmann, Boris Hirsch
We investigate to what extent workplace unionization protects workers from external shocks by preventing involuntary job separations. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a plausibly exogenous shock hitting the whole economy, we compare workers who worked in unionized and non-unionized workplaces directly before the pandemic in a difference-in-differences framework. We find that unionized workers were substantially
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Some facts about concentrated labor markets in the United States Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, Matthew Dey
We estimate employer concentration by occupation in the United States from 2003 to 2018. Findings include the following: (1) concentration is a characteristic of small labor markets; (2) patterns of concentrated employment differ from patterns of employment in very large employers, with overlap largely in the public sector; (3) the public sector and hospital industry play prominent roles in concentrated
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Power resources for disempowered workers? Re-conceptualizing the power and potential of consumers in app-based food delivery Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Caleb Goods, Alex Veen, Tom Barratt, Brett Smith
Consumers play an integral role in the labor process of app-based food delivery services through their consumption behaviors and performance ratings of workers. Some therefore see them as a potential ally of workers, whereas others view them as beholden by capital. This quantitative study uses power resource theory and a Rasch model to appraise consumers' understandings and attitudes toward working
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Visible hands: How gig companies shape workers' exposure to market risk Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Michael David Maffie
How do gig platforms prevent workers from defecting to a competitor? Drawing on 40 original interviews and survey data from 210 ride-hail drivers, the author finds that platform companies calibrate workers' exposure to market risk using gamified reward systems. These rewards protect compliant workers from changes in market conditions, raising the costs of accepting work from a competitor. Yet those
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The high costs of outsourcing: Vendor errors, customer mistreatment, and well-being in call centers Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Sean O'Brady, Virginia Doellgast, David Blatter
We analyze the impact of outsourcing on the well-being of internal call center employees in the U.S. telecommunications industry. Our findings draw on mixed-methods data. The qualitative findings suggest that internal employees experienced escalating job demands connected to errors by third-party call center vendors and their employees due to additional work and intensified customer frustrations. SEM
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The limits of using grievance procedures to combat workplace discrimination Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Ayushi Narayan
I examine the move from phone to online Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) reporting at the United States Postal Service (USPS) to identify the causal impact of grievance procedure use. This shift led to a large increase in sex–based complaints at the USPS in areas with greater access to broadband. However, I observe no commensurate change in sex gaps related to turnover, hiring, and promotions. My
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Performance-related pay, mental and physiological health Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Nicole Andelic, Julia Allan, Keith A. Bender, Daniel Powell, Ioannis Theodossiou
Much of the literature on performance-related pay (PRP) and poor health relies on self-reported data, and the relationship is difficult to examine due to confounding variables. We examine the relationship between PRP and three groups of health measures using data from the UKHLS: blood pressure, inflammation markers in blood, and self-reported health. Regressions correcting for self-selection bias and
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The employer perspective on wage law non-compliance: State of the field and a framework for new understanding Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Stephen Clibborn, Sally Hanna-Osborne
This article offers the first systematic review of empirical research addressing the question of why employers underpay their employees, from the perspective of employers themselves – a perspective largely missing from scholarly examination of wage law non-compliance. We conducted a comprehensive search of the vast peer-reviewed literature on the topic, identifying studies which collected and analyzed
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Social norms and gendered occupational choices of men and women: Time to turn the tide? Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Patricia Palffy, Patrick Lehnert, Uschi Backes-Gellner
We analyze the relationship between social gender norms and adolescents' occupational choices by combining regional votes on constitutional amendments on gender equality with job application data from a large job board for apprenticeships. The results show that adolescent males in regions with stronger traditional social gender norms are more likely to apply for typically male occupations. This finding
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What is the best website for recruiting? Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Véronique Rémy, Véronique Simonnet
Do employers form higher-quality matches at a lower cost when they hire via websites such as corporate websites, specialized sites, generalist sites, or the site of the public employment service (PES)? Based on a survey of French establishments, we find that employers who rely on the Internet to look for candidates employ more search channels and selection methods. Of Internet users, the employers
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Quantifying and explaining the decline in public schoolteacher retirement benefits Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Nino Abashidze, Robert L. Clark, Lee A. Craig
We estimate that, between 2000 and 2020, the average initial monthly retirement benefit for teachers retiring with 30 years of service has been reduced by 11.2%, though the decline in benefits varies substantially across the states (the median reduction in the initial benefit was 1.9%). We also find that plans covering only teachers, and plans in which teachers are not in Social Security, have made
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Five decades of CPS wages, methods, and union-nonunion wage gaps at Unionstats.com Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 David A. Macpherson, Barry T. Hirsch
Unionstats.com provides annual measures of union, nonunion, and overall wages, beginning in 1973, compiled from the U.S. Current Population Surveys. Regression-based union wage gap estimates are presented economy-wide, for demographic groups, and sectors (private/public, industries). Union wage gaps are higher in the private than in the public sector, higher for men than women, roughly similar for
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Amplifying the gender gap in academia: “Caregiving” at work during the pandemic Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Sophie Leroy, Patricia C. Dahm, Theresa M. Glomb
We examine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on faculty using survey data. First, we uncover heterogeneity in the immediate effects on research productivity and burnout. Three groups emerged (Career Accelerated, Career Insulated, and Career Headwinds) with female faculty disproportionately represented in Career Headwinds, experiencing both high burnout and declines in research productivity. Second
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Comparative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on work and employment—Why industrial relations institutions matter Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Tony Dobbins, Stewart Johnstone, Marta Kahancová, Ryan J. Lamare, Adrian Wilkinson
This introduction assesses the international impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on work and employment. It outlines conceptually why industrial relations institutions matter for shaping policy choices across different countries. This includes countries in the Global South that are not covered by conventional varieties of capitalism theories. An important focus is what IR institutions and policies played
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Different degrees of skill obsolescence across hard and soft skills and the role of lifelong learning for labor market outcomes Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Tobias Schultheiss, Uschi Backes-Gellner
This paper examines the role of lifelong learning in counteracting skill depreciation and obsolescence. We differentiate between occupations with more hard skills versus more soft skills and draw on representative job advertisement data that contain machine-learning categorized skill requirements and cover the Swiss job market in great detail across occupations (from 1950 to 2019). We examine lifelong
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Productivity dynamics of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2023-01-08 Masayuki Morikawa
This study documents the productivity dynamics of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. The mean productivity at home has improved by more than 10 percentage points in the past year, although it is still approximately 20% lower than when working in the office. Selection effects and learning effects contributed almost equally to the productivity growth. Even after adjusting for additional
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Does robotization affect job quality? Evidence from European regional labor markets Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 José-Ignacio Antón, Enrique Fernández-Macías, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Whereas there are recent papers on the effect of robot adoption on employment and wages, there is no evidence on how robots affect non-monetary working conditions. We explore the impact of robot adoption on several domains of non-monetary working conditions in Europe over the period 1995–2005 combining information from the World Robotics Survey and the European Working Conditions Survey. In order to
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The employment effects of working time reductions: Sector-level evidence from European reforms Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Cyprien Batut, Andrea Garnero, Alessandro Tondini
In this paper, we exploit a panel of industry-level data in European countries to study the economic impact of national reductions in usual weekly working hours between 1995 and 2007. Our identification strategy relies on the five national reforms that took place over this period and on initial differences across sectors in the share of workers exposed to the reforms. On average, the number of hours
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Intersectional organizing: Building solidarity through radical confrontation Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Tamara L. Lee, Maite Tapia
IR scholars reference intersectionality in relation to organizing, but the field lacks a theoretical construct. Based on 2 years of intimate data access, we examine the 2017 U.S. Women's March as a critical case of “intersectional organizing.” We ground this empirical case study in Critical Race and Intersectionality Theory to show how the intersectional organizing model employed by the Women's March
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Beyond the brands: COVID-19, supply chain governance, and the state–labor nexus Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Michele Ford, Michael Gillan, Kristy Ward
This article analyses the role played by brands, producer-country governments, and unions in mitigating the impact of disruptions caused to garment supply chains by COVID-19 in Cambodia, Indonesia, and Myanmar. Its findings challenge brand-centric accounts, highlighting the need for more serious consideration of the dynamic, relational nature of labor governance—and, in particular, of the role of the
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Informalization in gig food delivery in the UK: The case of hyper-flexible and precarious work Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Pedro Mendonça, Nadia K. Kougiannou, Ian Clark
This article examines the process of informalization of work in platform food delivery work in the UK. Drawing on qualitative data, this article provides new analytical insight into what drives individual formal couriers to both supply and demand informalized sub-contracted gig work to undocumented migrants, and how a platform company enables informal work practices through permissive HR practices
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Delivering the goods? German industrial relations institutions during the COVID-19 crisis Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Martin Behrens, Andreas Pekarek
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused labor market disruptions at an unprecedented scale and is akin to a stress test for industrial relations institutions. Drawing on a large-scale (n = 6111) study of German employees, we empirically investigate whether and how the two institutions comprising Germany's dual system of employee representation—works councils and collective bargaining—have delivered on their
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A large-scale field experiment on occupational gender segregation and hiring discrimination Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Mladen Adamovic, Andreas Leibbrandt
We analyze the relationship between occupational gender composition and gender discrimination in recruitment and investigate whether there is hiring discrimination against men in female-dominated occupations. We do this with a large-scale field experiment where we submitted more than 12,000 job applications for 12 occupations in Australia, varying the gender of the applicants. Men received around 50%
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The wage impact of being a works council representative in Germany: A case of strategic discrimination? Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2022-05-21 Clément Brébion
Works councils provide an essential mechanism for worker participation in decision-making. While the literature has extensively explored their impact on worker and establishment outcomes, the negotiation process between works council representatives and their employer has remained largely unexplored. This article contributes to filling this gap by investigating wage discrimination towards works councilors
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Making sense of (mis)matched frames of reference: A dynamic cognitive theory of (in)stability in HR practices: A dialogue Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 J. Adam Cobb
Budd, Pohler, and Huang (Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 2021) proposed a theory about how managers’ and employees’ (mis)matched frames of reference regarding employment relationships help explain HR outcomes observed in practice. In this response, I pose some questions about the scope of the theory, possible contingencies, and potential confounding mechanisms in hopes of motivating
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Workers’ tenure and firm productivity: New evidence from matched employer-employee panel data Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Nicola Gagliardi, Elena Grinza, François Rycx
Using rich longitudinal matched employer-employee data on Belgian firms, we explore the impact of workers’ tenure on firm productivity. To do so, we estimate production functions augmented with firm-level measures of tenure. We deal with the endogeneity of standard inputs and tenure, which arises from unobserved firm heterogeneity and reverse causality, by applying a modified version of Ackerberg et
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Frames or social structures? Comment on “Making sense of (mis)matched frames of reference: A dynamic cognitive theory of (in)stability in HR practices” Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Nathan Wilmers
Do workers and employers hold strong views about the nature of the employment relationship? Are these views causally important for understanding the success or failure of human resources practices? In this article, I comment on Budd, Pohler and Huang’s project of bringing cognitive frames theory to employment relations research. I agree with their emphasis on informal workplace social dynamics and
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Myth or measurement: What does the new minimum wage research say about minimum wages and job loss in the United States? Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 David Neumark, Peter Shirley
The disagreement among studies on the employment effects of minimum wages in the United States is well known. Less well known, and more puzzling, is the absence of agreement on what the research literature says—that is, how economists summarize the body of evidence on the employment effects of minimum wages. Summaries range from “it is now well established that higher minimum wages do not reduce employment
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Performance pay, working hours, and health-related absenteeism Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Jed DeVaro
Analysis of broad, U.K. worker-establishment matched panel data from 2004 to 2011 reveals that working hours increase with the fraction of an establishment's workers receiving performance-based pay, if the cutoff for “long weekly hours” is from 35 to 39, but not beyond a sharp discontinuity at 40. Long hours are found to be unrelated to various workplace health problems but positively related to health-related
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Frames of reference in managing employment from the perspective of economics of conventions Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Julia Brandl
In their contribution to this symposium, John W. Budd, Dionne Pohler, and Wei Huang provided directions for understanding how conflicts and human resource (HR) practices are influenced by framing processes. The current literature on frames in the field of human resources and industrial relations tends to view individual actors as representatives of theories on employment relationship, and it focuses
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Implications of frames of reference for strategic human resource management research: Opportunities and challenges Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Kaifeng Jiang, Wei Shi, Xin Wen
Budd, Pohler, and Huang's (Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 2022) proposed a theory of (mis)matched frames of reference to explain how managers’ and employees’ frames of reference regarding employment relationships may influence the use of human resource (HR) practices and help to explain the HR outcomes and conflicts observed in practice. We concur with Budd et al. that frames
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Trade Union Legitimacy and Legitimation Politics in Australia and New Zealand Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2022-02-05
The following article for this Special Issue was published in an earlier Issue
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Puzzling choices in hard times: Union ideologies of social concertation in the Great Recession Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Arianna Tassinari, Jimmy Donaghey, Manuela Galetto
Using the cases of Ireland and Portugal during the post-2008 Great Recession, we argue that unions' ideological formations around social concertation are central in aiding them to navigate their options about whether to engage in concessionary bargaining with government under crisis conditions. Building on Hyman's triangle of union identity, we show how an ideational perspective can complement interest-based
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Ideas and power in employment relations studies Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Martin B. Carstensen, Christian Lyhne Ibsen, Vivien A. Schmidt
Motivated by the efforts to understand shifting dynamics of change and stability in employment relations—not least ones brought on by a decade of crisis in what was a neoliberal consensus—scholars increasingly focus on the role of ideas, discourses, and identities. This paper argues for the potential of continuing down this path of employing ideational explanations in employment relations. First, it
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The relative importance of industrial relations ideas in politics: A quantitative analysis of political party manifestos across 54 countries Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 J. Ryan Lamare, John W. Budd
Ideas are important but hard to quantify, making large-scale, quantitative analyses difficult. Political parties are important ideational contributors, and their election year manifestos provide explicit compilations of their ideas. Using Comparative Manifesto Project data, we propose three channels through which ideas enter into manifestos and examine the fraction of manifesto content devoted to pro-worker
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“A bridge too far?” Ideas, employment relations and policy-making about the future of work Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2021-11-30 Susan Ainsworth, Angela Knox
Drawing on ideational perspectives, we examine how ideas about the future of work and the discursive forms they take contribute to policy-making about employment relations and labor markets. Analyzing data from an Australian government Inquiry reporting on the future impact of technological and other work changes, we find that rather than being about these topics, the Inquiry focuses more on actors’
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The politics of Uber in Quebec. A discursive institutionalist study Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Urwana Coiquaud, Lucie Morissette
Digital platforms have led to the disruption of public policy in many sectors. Five years after the arrival of Uber in Quebec (Canada), the old regulatory framework was replaced by a policy which espouses the business model of the multinational. Following the discursive institutionalist approach, this research reveals the dynamic by which Uber penetrated the political sphere to take advantage of it
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Performance pay and alcohol use in Germany Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Mehrzad B. Baktash, John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn
Previous studies show that performance pay can benefit firms and workers by increasing productivity and wages. Yet, performance pay can also have unintended consequences for worker health. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the hypothesis that alcohol use as “self-medication” is a natural response to the stress and uncertainty associated with performance pay. We find that the
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The cooperation between business organizations, trade unions, and the state during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative analysis of the nature of the tripartite relationship Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Bernd Brandl
The COVID-19 outbreak has led to an increase in social dialogue in general and, in particular, to an increase in tripartite cooperation between social partners' organizations and state authorities. This paper takes a critical look behind this cooperation and investigates the underlying rationales behind the tripartite cooperation in 19 countries. It is shown that even though the cooperation generally
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Effects of recent minimum wage policies in California and nationwide: Results from a pre-specified analysis plan Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 David Neumark, Maysen Yen
We analyze the impacts of recent city minimum wage increases in California and nationwide, following a pre-analysis plan (PAP) registered prior to the release of data covering two years of minimum wage increases. For California cities, we find a hint of negative employment effects. Nationally, we find some evidence of disemployment effects for teens, but not young adults or high school dropouts. City-specific
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What do unions do… for temps? Collective bargaining and the wage penalty Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Adam Seth Litwin, Or Shay
Does collective bargaining lift wages for contingent workers? Well-worn theory suggests that temps at a covered employer earn less than otherwise similar “perms,” but still fare better than they would in a nonunion workplace. Our analysis of a national sample of matched employee–employer data first disposes of the universality of this conventional wisdom. Then, it allows us to test an alternative,
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Role of labor demand in the labor market effects of a pension reform Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2021-10-08 Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Svenja Lorenz, Thomas Zwick, Mona Bruns
This paper shows that labor demand plays an important role in the labor market reactions to a pension reform in Germany. Employers with a high share of older worker inflow compared with their younger worker inflow, employers in sectors with few investments in research and development, and employers in sectors with a high share of collective bargaining agreements allow their employees to stay employed
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Are workers rewarded for inconsistent performance? Industrial Relations (IF 1.833) Pub Date : 2021-09-29 Anil Özdemir, Helmut Dietl, Giambattista Rossi, Rob Simmons
This paper examines whether workers are rewarded for inconsistent performance by salary premia. Some earlier research suggests that performance inconsistency leads to salary premia, while other research finds premia for consistent performance. Using detailed salary and performance data for top-level footballers in Italy’s Serie A, we find that inconsistency is penalized for some important dimensions