This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation and labour market regulation. It is shown that FDI is best protected from expropriation in unionized economies with right-to-manage bargaining, not bargaining over wages and employment. When the labour market is nonunion...

Implicit in many discussions of labour market policy is the assumption that, in the absence of interventions, the operation of the labour market is well-approximated by the perfectly competitive model. The merits or demerits of particular policies is then seen as a trade-off between efficiency and equality. This paper analyses the impact of a variety of policies – the minimum wage, trade unions...

Purpose of this paper, which is a synthesis of a wider research project, is to show the impact of labour flexibility upon the employment structure of a prominent Italian region: Lombardy. The impact is especially investigated by focusing on the diffusion and the evolution of new "non standard" labour contracts. On one hand, Lombardy is leading, among all Italian regions, in the high-tech indust...

One of the stylized facts of Canadian labour markets in the 1990s and into the new millennium is a lengthening in labour contract duration. Various authors have analyzed the underlying factors influencing the duration of labour contracts in Canada, but they have typically covered only periods up to the late 1980s or early 1990s. A particular area of interest to the Bank of Canada is the role pl...

This paper analyses the impact of matching frictions in Portuguese labour market on individual unemployment hazard rates and durations. The coexistence permanent contracts temporary (dual) labour-market is akin to a friction, with contract-type mismatch between jobseekers who prefer contracts, whereas firms, turn, offer contracts. uses rich micro dataset which allows compute time space varying ...

Abstract In this paper, we study the existence of interlocking complementarities between job design and labour contract at firm level. Using a formal model, show that firms face two organizational equilibria: one in which designs with high routine task intensity are matched large use non-standard contracts; other low combines small contracts. These exist because while contracts allow to adjust ...