Papers by Bernhard Ebbinghaus
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2000
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Current theories of unions are mainly theories of what unions were and did rather than theories o... more Current theories of unions are mainly theories of what unions were and did rather than theories of what unions will be and will do. Thus, the purpose of this book is to help make economic thinking about unions in Europe more forward‐looking and to discuss the role that unions are likely to play in the changed economic environment of the new century. The volume consists of two reports that are the results of coordinated efforts by some of the most authoritative scholars in the field. The first study addresses a number of issues related to the question of how the primary role of trade unions—collective bargaining over wages and work conditions—is likely to evolve in the early decades of the new millennium. Starting from the widespread impression of a trend toward weakening union power, the main aspects considered by the analysis are membership, wage effects, organization and presence of unions, bargaining structure, macroeconomic performance, future scenarios, and strategies. The seco...
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Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2000
Trade unions are one of the major social institutions in modern industrial societies. Today, when... more Trade unions are one of the major social institutions in modern industrial societies. Today, when they increasingly face pressures from social, economic and political changes at national and global levels, it is appropriate to look at their evolution over the last half of this century. Such a comparative portrait of union development in Western Europe since 1945 shows common trends and persistent divisions. A comparison across countries and time reveals how much union movements have been moulded by the social, political and economic development of the societies, markets and polities of which they are part. This handbook aims to map the variations in union organization and membership in fifteen Western European economies. The handbook’s country chapters, with introductory profiles, chronologies, cross-sectional and time-series tables, as well as comparative indicators in the second chapter, are intended to facilitate and encourage the comparative and historical study of modern trade union organization.
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This volume makes an invaluable contribution to comparative political economy by highlighting ele... more This volume makes an invaluable contribution to comparative political economy by highlighting elective affinities between multiple institutional domains of the economy. The contributors have devoted most of their attention to the logic of ‘institutional complementarities’ between different domains, and their impact on economic coordination and performance. They are less interested in the political sources of these arrangements. This choice of emphasis is not accidental. In the wake of the economic shocks of the 1970s, when political scientists and sociologists set about developing what Goldthorpe (1984) described as a “new political economy”, they were motivated to no small extent by a burning desire to demonstrate to both economists and sceptics in their own disciplines that “politics matters”. With the zeal typical of this type of paradigmatic struggle, many of the protagonists lost sight of the fact that political economy is about the mutual interaction and embeddedness of politics and the economy. With the decline of Keynesian discourse and the rise of global capitalism, a new intellectual swing has occurred characterized by integration of economic models and methods, on the one hand, and on the other, greater attention to institutions—where economists and political scientists share potential common ground. I believe that it is time for a corrective, a reminder of the distinctive contribution that political sociologists and political scientists can and should make to the study of comparative political economy. Politics do matter, although there is an unsettled debate about what type of politics matter most. A second assumption guiding this commentary is that this debate
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Jul 15, 1998
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The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century, 2001
Shows that there are important correlations between the unions' strength and activities and t... more Shows that there are important correlations between the unions' strength and activities and their welfare outcomes. The chapter provides a taxonomy of the large differences across countries in unions' strength and social expenditure. The analysis distinguishes among four dimensions of union influence: (1) unions as political movements; (2) unions and self‐administration in public schemes; (3) unions and private pensions; and (4) institutional participation and political veto points.
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The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century, 2001
The macroeconomics effects of various degrees of coordination in wage bargaining are analysed wit... more The macroeconomics effects of various degrees of coordination in wage bargaining are analysed with a special focus on aggregate wage and unemployment levels. The extent of bargaining coordination may affect wage setting both directly and indirectly because it interacts with other factors, such as economic policy and macroeconomic shocks. The last section discusses how the EMU is likely to affect wage bargaining changing and wage setting.
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The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century, 2001
An analysis of union presence focusing only on union membership can be misleading, particularly s... more An analysis of union presence focusing only on union membership can be misleading, particularly so for European countries. Ch. 4 examines wider issues of union presence, including forms of bargaining (centralization and coordination of bargaining) and issues of coverage of collective agreements. Two key questions are addressed. First, what do unions do besides bargain over wages? Second, how do unions make their presence felt beyond mere density statistics (‘excess coverage’)?
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The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century, 2001
Examines the determinants of union influence over wages. After a brief review of the existing lit... more Examines the determinants of union influence over wages. After a brief review of the existing literature on union wage effects, it describes the major factors conditioning the extent to which unions will be able to exert an influence on bargained wage outcomes. The likely impact of trade, economic integration, and FDI on union bargaining power are analysed in the following section.
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The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century, 2001
Differences in unionization rates across countries appear to be related to how unemployment insur... more Differences in unionization rates across countries appear to be related to how unemployment insurance is organized in different countries. The chapter presents the involvement of unions in the provision of unemployment insurance, highlighting theoretical considerations, policy arguments, and empirical evidence in favour of a particular unemployment insurance arrangement known as the ‘Ghent regime’.
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The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century, 2001
Discusses and describes trends in union membership as a starting point of a study on trade unions... more Discusses and describes trends in union membership as a starting point of a study on trade unions behaviour. Using data from the DUES (Development of Unions in European Societies) project, the study deals with the recent decline in union power, union members' choices, and the main (cyclical, structural, and institutional) factors explaining membership trends.
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... Richard Freeman, (National Bureau of Economic Research, USA) Pietro Garibaldi, (University Bo... more ... Richard Freeman, (National Bureau of Economic Research, USA) Pietro Garibaldi, (University Bocconi, Milan, Italy and Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti) ... Giacomo De Giorgi and Mattia Makovec have provided excellent research assistance. Page 2. ...
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Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets, 2000
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Politische Soziologie, 2009
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Handbuch Policy-Forschung, 2015
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