This study utilizes the environmental tax reform in China as a quasi-natural experiment to
investigate the effect of environmental taxes on income inequality. In January 2018, the …

Optimal training decisions require employers to have accurate information about their
workers' training needs. However, little is known with regard to the key factors determining …

How do firm‐level collective agreements affect firm performance in a multi‐level bargaining
system? Using detailed Belgian‐linked employer–employee panel data, our findings show …

At the outset of the Thatcher/Reagan era, the employment and labor law systems across six
Anglo-American countries could be divided into three pairings: the Wagner Act model of the …

Family firms must attract talented employees to stay competitive. They have different
employer characteristics than nonfamily firms. For example, although they generally offer …

The economic crisis is a collective action problem. In the absence of currency devaluations,
eurozone governments are faced with the painful social process of wage devaluations. This …

The international economic crisis hit Ireland hard from 2007 on. Ireland's membership of the
Euro had a significant effect on the policy configuration in the run-up to the crisis, as this had …

This paper uses data from the 2003 and 2006 National Employment Surveys to analyse the
public-private sector wage gap in Ireland. In particular, we investigate the impact of awards …

The past 20 years were convulsive for industrial relations in Ireland: from boom to bust and
back again, with the Financial Crisis killing off national bargaining; the Supreme Court first …

This study examines sectoral productivity differences in Ireland and Northern Ireland and
attempts to understand these by identifying the key determinants of productivity in both …