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Airlines ; Strikes and lockouts

The return of the lockout

This paper comments on lockouts in Australia and Briggs' (2004a) study of lockouts published in the Australian Bulletin of Labour June 2004. It seeks to look at Briggs findings in a broader historical context, by noting that recent past levels of disputes are a small fraction of the level of disputation during (say) the 1970s, and that lockouts, though more prevalent during the half-decade ended 2003, are an even smaller fraction of the disputation levels that prevailed on average during the 1970s. Briggs study focuses on the manufacturing sector, as this sector has, according to his research findings, been the most lockout-prone. As an addendum to Briggs focus on manufacturing, this paper draws attention to the non-manufacturing sector, which accounts for more than 85 per cent of Australian employees. It is noted that working days lost due to lockouts in this sector have decreased during the half-decade ended 2003 when compared to the preceding half-decade. Indeed, the decline in lockouts in the non-manufacturing sector during the half-decade ended 2003 exceeds the decline in strikes

Determinants Of Barries To Quality Of Direct Foreign Investments Evidences From South & East Asian Economies

The objective of this paper is to examine whether FDI inflows in South & East Asian economies posses any barriers which are deterring to attract FDI of their actual potential? If so, what are those various set of barriers? These questions are addressed in this study using cross section time series data for 17 South and East Asian economies from 1996 to 2005.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/64376/1/wp910.pd

Subject Index (standards of living - strikes and lockouts), pp. 711-788

The Catherwood Library and ILR School at Cornell are pleased to again make available an extremely important index of major labor union publications, long out of print. It is Lloyd G. Reynolds and Charles C. Killingsworth\u27s Trade Union Publications: The Official Journals, Convention Proceedings and Constitutions of International Unions and Federations, 1850-1941. Baltimore, The John Hopkins Press, 1944

Subject: Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations

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Two Faces of Participation: The Story of Kerala

This paper analysis the impact of collective action and political participation on the economic development of the south Indian state of Kerala over the last three decades. Despite its low economic basis, Kerala’s successive governments have implemented a large redistributive programme that resulted in impressive levels of social development. Kerala’s success has been largely attributed to the actions of organised collective movements, both in the formal and informal sectors, in the form of militant peasants associations and labour unions. Collective actions have, however, also contributed towards political instability, increase in the risk of investment and uncertainty in labour productivity. This paper examines the effects of collective actions on Kerala’s economic growth during the last three decades using time-series analysis techniques, considering in turn collective action and redistributive policies to be external and then endogenous variables to the process of economic growth in Kerala. The results show that while some forms of collective action can contribute towards the decrease of poverty and increase in state income, other forms harm economic growth. We compare these results with those obtained for a panel of 14 major Indian states.Redistribution, industrial disputes, collective action, participation, social development, economic growth, Kerala, India

Subject: International

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Subject: Teachers and Schools

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Wage coordination and the welfare state: Germany and Japan compared

Is there a relation between welfare state regimes and national wage setting systems? Peter Swenson in his research on the historical dynamics of the US-American and Swedish welfare state has recently claimed that such a relation does indeed exist. The essay aims to check if this also holds true for the German and Japanese case. In the post-war period both countries have established systems of wage-bargaining that are less centralized than the Swedish system, but in which wages are highly coordinated both within and across sectors, and, subsequently, in which wage compression is relatively high as well. Thus, both countries are confronted with the same problems of wage- and welfare-drift and of firms' exit from the 'solidaristic' or coordinated wage setting that are so typical for Sweden. At the same time the German and Japanese welfare state differ from each other in almost all dimensions. Thus, both cases seem to be ideally suited to provide for a plausibility-check of the Swenson hypothesis. The essay reaches the conclusion that there is indeed ample evidence that both the German and the Japanese welfare state contributed critically to the stability of wage coordination in the era of high growth after World War II. They thus have to be understood as an integral part of the German and Japanese post-war growth model. -- Gibt es einen Zusammenhang zwischen Wohlfahrtsstaatsregimen und nationalen Systemen der Lohnkoordination? Peter Swenson hat diese Frage kürzlich in seiner Untersuchung der historischen Dynamik des US-amerikanischen und schwedischen Wohlfahrtsstaats bejaht. Der Aufsatz nimmt sich zum Ziel, Swensons These anhand des deutschen und japanischen Falls zu überprüfen. Sowohl in Deutschland als auch in Japan ist zwar der Grad der Zentralisierung der Lohnverhandlung geringer ausgeprägt als in Schweden, doch die Lohnkoordinierung innerhalb und zwischen den Sektoren ist hoch und führt in beiden Ländern zu relativ starker Lohnkomprimierung. Deutschland und Japan sind folglich mit ähnlichen Problemen der wage- und welfare drift und der Gefahr eines Ausscherens hoch produktiver Firmen aus der 'solidarischen' bzw. koordinierten Lohnpolitik konfrontiert, wie sie für das schwedische Modell typisch sind. Zugleich sind die Unterschiede zwischen dem deutschen und dem japanischen Wohlfahrtsstaat in so gut wie allen Dimensionen sehr ausgeprägt. Insofern scheint der Deutschland/Japan-Vergleich eine gute Überprüfungsmöglichkeit für die Swenson-Hypothese zu bieten. Der Aufsatz kommt zu dem Schluß, daß in der Tat viel empirische Evidenz dafür spricht, daß der Wohlfahrtsstaat in Deutschland und Japan in der Phase des rapiden wirtschaftlichen Wachstums ebenfalls einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Stabilisierung koordinierter Lohnverhandlungen geleistet hat und somit integraler Bestandteil des deutschen und japanischen Wachstumsmodells gewesen ist.