Introduction: the EU and national industrial relations A paradox has emerged in the last two decades in Europe. Interest in comparing employment relations has increased, under international pressure to increase productivity, employment rates and competitiveness and to attract foreign investors and foreign skilled workers. International organisations, governments, trade unions, multinational com...

Objectives To study prospectively the differences in health inequality in men and women from 1986-96 using the Office for National Statistics’ longitudinal study and new socioeconomic classification. To assess the relative importance of social class (based on employment characteristics) and social position according to the general social advantage of the household to mortality risk in men and w...

The erosion of a number of national systems of employment relations, and the evidence from large scale workplace surveys has brought attention to the considerable diversity of employment systems within major economies. This essay applies the theory of evolutionary games to explain the diffusion of different employment systems within national economies, and how they interact with established sec...

OBJECTIVES To study prospectively the differences in health inequality in men and women from 1986-96 using the Office for National Statistics' longitudinal study and new socioeconomic classification. To assess the relative importance of social class (based on employment characteristics) and social position according to the general social advantage of the household to mortality risk in men and w...

In recent years, considerable debate has surrounded the issue of whether a fundamental transformation of employment relations is underway in both the industrialised and industrialising countries.1 Comparative studies at the national or macrolevel of employment relations have been conducted within both an OECD group of countries (see Locke et al. 1995) and newly industrialising economies (see Ve...

In the 1990s, we have witnessed various structural changes in the Japanese labor market in the process of unprecedented economic stagnation often described as the 'lost decade'. One of the most impressive is the rapid growth of atypical employment, in particular part-time workers, which now account for nearly one third of total employment. At the same time, what counts as “typical employment” i...

the purpose of present study is to evaluate the role of teaching entrepreneurship on the employment of iranian higher education graduates in today`s changing world. the delphi method is used and a sample of 46 entrepreneurship specialists is questioned about the subject. once the data are collected, they are analyzed using χ2-square freedman test and kendal correlation. final results reveal tha...

Elevated unemployment rates since 2008 have given firms a bargaining power advantage over their employees, allowing employers to reduce wage and compensation growth, including the scope and amount of pension contributions. This paper argues that a more equitable approach to employment relations can promote distributively just labor market outcomes and improve macroeconomic performance. A strong...

When the Workplace Relations Act 1996 was introduced by the current government in 1996, it was justified on the basis that it provided a regulatory framework which allowed firms to structure their industrial relations practices to suit their own needs and those of their employees. It was argued at the time the Act would provide a basis for generating more productive workplaces and more harmonio...