A prominent theory of wage rigidity claims that a social norm against underbidding may prevent wages from falling to market clearing levels. This social norm may therefore cause downwardly rigid wages and involuntary unemployment. Recently performed questionnaire studies have thrown doubt on the conjecture that there is a social norm against underbidding. In this paper we experimentally show th...

Discussions of the replication crisis in psychology require more substantive analysis academic labour and social reproduction university. Both university describe a failure processes reproducing something. The financial 2007–8 shortly preceded emergence crisis, as well exacerbated ongoing tendencies organisation practices research (particularly use precarious contracts adjunctification research...

Non-Standard ‘Contingent’ Employment and Job Satisfaction: A Panel Data Analysis It is widely assumed that contingent forms of employment, such as fixed-term contracts, labour-hire and casual employment, are associated with low quality jobs. This hypothesis is tested using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, a nationally representative household pane...

The Labour Contract Law of People’s Republic of China came into effect in 2008 to supplement the first Labour Law of 1994. The enactment of this law, however, coincided with the outbreak of the world’s financial tsunami at the same time. Many enterprises in China, especially manufacturing factories, faced tremendous difficulties of both the decreasing sales orders from the West and increasing o...

The central conclusion of this paper is that despite seemingly significant differences in the approach to labour market policy in Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand, labour market outcomes in the three countries have been very similar. It is concluded that ‘while the labour market outcomes in Australia have been inferior to those in the United Kingdom and New Zealand in recent years,...

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The article provides a detailed analysis of causes and consequences modern unemployment with reference to the Russian economy as whole, and, its sector agricultural production, in particular. authors explore varied views on phenomenon economic science. It is largely described consequence market deformation, resulting from bureaucratization management, contrast certain liberal treatments, focusi...

Analysis of 60,000 contracts awarded by English councils between 2015–19 reveals that austerity constraints are a key predictor outsourcing services to for-profit suppliers, regardless their political control. Conservative Party-controlled also more likely contract with although we found no link Labour-controlled and not-for-profit nor evidence or budgetary factors influence whether providers b...