We identify the causal effect of trade-integration with China and Eastern Europe on voting in Germany from 1987 to 2009. Looking at the entire political spectrum, we find that only extreme-right parties respond significantly to trade integration. Their vote share increases with import competition and decreases with export access opportunities. We unpack mechanisms using reduced form evidence an...

Althusser’s pioneering concept of “ideological state apparatuses” is extended to the unique role of consumerism as a particular ideology enabling and supporting U.S. capitalism. It is argued that rising levels of worker consumption have functioned effectively to compensate workers for (and thereby allow) rising rates of exploitation and their negative social effects. For such compensation to su...

The introduction of good faith bargaining in Western Australia: Policy origins and implications for collective bargaining Michael Gillan and Donella Caspersz University of Western Australia The Australian Industrial Relations Commission ruled in 2003 that there was no legal duty on parties to bargain in ‘good faith’. In Western Australia, the Gallop Labor Government has introduced good faith ba...

Are beautiful people better negotiators? In this article, I present evidence from a simple bargaining game in which players listened to prerecorded speeches and viewed the pictures of other players. I found that physically attractive players received a greater share of the surplus when their partners could both listen to their speeches and view their pictures.This effect was strongest when the ...

The term “actors” in industrial relations gained currency in John Dunlop’s Industrial Relations Systems (1958). He proposed that three parties—employers, labor unions, and government-are the key actors in a modern industrial relations system. He also argued that none of these institutions could act in an autonomous or independent fashion. Instead they were shaped, at least to some extent, by th...

In cooperative activities, all parties have a shared goal but may not have the same set of skills. The current study considers whether preschoolers are sensitive to probable differences in individuals’ competence when allocating roles. We found that 3.5to 5.5-year-olds use relative competence, as indexed by the age of their intended partner, to determine who should do the harder and easier of t...

The first chapter examines the interaction of heterogeneous firms in a competitive market in which firms motivate their workers using relational incentive contracts. In the steady-state rationalexpectations equilibrium, aggregate TFP is fully characterized by a weighted average of firm-specific sustainable effort levels. Relational contracts amplify exogenous productivity heterogeneity and lead...

The working relationship between employers and workers/labourers is civil/private in nature because it was born after the existence of a work agreement. jobs, orders wages as elements relations left to parties. agreement basis employment an autonomous rule for workers/laborers exercising their rights obligations. However, agreements do not fully contain private elements. position worker/laborer...

The article analyzes certain provisions of the Labor Code 1922, which determined vector development labor legislation in period changing political, economic and social conditions. need for adopting 1922 was caused by transition Soviet state to a new policy. Since an accelerated process updating began. Some norms underlying 1971 have been reflected developed current Russian Federation, e.g., rul...