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Trade union responses to migrant workers from the ‘new Europe': a three sector comparison in the UK, Norway and Germany
"This article compares trade union strategies towards migrant workers from the ‘new Europe'. The analysis focuses on three sectors in the UK, Norway and Germany. We conclude that trade union ...
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Wage flexibility and employment fluctuations: evidence from the housing sector
"Many economists suspect that downward nominal wage rigidities in ongoing labor contracts are an important source of employment fluctuations over the business cycle but there is little direct ...
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Price effects of the minimum wage: a survey data analysis for the German construction sector
"Utilizing the link between employment and price changes as a result of minimum wages, we use firm-level data to evaluate the effect of minimum wage introduction in the German construction sector. In ...
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Sector-level strategies against precarious employment in Germany: evidence from construction, commercial cleaning, hospitals and temporary agency work
"This study focuses on describing and analyzing the concrete initiatives taken by trade unions and employers to combat precarious employment. It is based on an evaluation of recent data, research ...
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Letter-box companies and abuse of the posting rules: how the primacy of economic freedoms ans weak enforcement give rise to social dumping
"This policy brief demonstrates how the emphasis on the primacy of economic freedoms has negatively affected the application of EU social security rules and the working conditions of posted workers. ...
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Price effects of minimum wages: evidence from the construction sector in East and West Germany
"In this paper, the authors present a new approach to estimate the impact of a minimum wage on the labor market of the construction sector in Germany. Instead of estimating the effect on employment, ...
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Unemployment in the Great Recession
"This paper studies the responses of unemployment in Germany, the United States and Britain to the Great Recession of 2008-09 by making use of Beveridge curve analysis, and in the entire OECD with ...
