The Disruption of Taxi and Limousine Markets by Digital Platform Corporations in Western Europe and the United States: Responses of Business Associations, Labor Unions, and Other Interest Groups [PDF]
, 2019 The entry of digital platform corporations, such as Uber, Lyft, and Taxify, into established taxi and limousine markets has severely challenged organized interest groups on both sides of the capital-labor divide as well as public policymakers who ...
Pernicka, Susanne
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Increasingly Equalized? A Study of Part-Time Work in ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Part-Time Work Regimes
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2011 Recent debates on equalization of part-time work alongside full-time work stress the importance of high quality part-time jobs. This paper compares equalization in banking in three countries: two `old´ part-time work regimes, Norway and Sweden, and ...
Heidi Nicolaisen
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Working Through The Past: Labor and Authoritorian Legacies in Comparative Perspective [PDF]
, 2015 [Excerpt] Democratization in the developing and post-communist world has yielded limited gains for labor. Explanations for this phenomenon have focused on the effect of economic crisis and globalization on the capacities of unions to become influential ...
Caraway, Teri L., (ed.) +2 more
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Young Workers in Transition: Explaining the Density Gap by a Life-course Perspective
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2021 A common challenge for all trade unions in most of the Western world is the growing trade union density gap between young and older workers. In this paper, we examine the generational trade union gap with point of departure in the Danish case.
Laust Høgedahl, Rasmus Juul Møberg
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Another Economic Miracle? The German Labor Market and the Great Recession [PDF]
The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-war history appears as an economic miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility.
Rinne, Ulf, Zimmermann, Klaus F.
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Tax-benefits policies jointly run by the social partners. Labour market implications of the bipartite sectoral funds. [PDF]
, 2015 This paper focuses on the employment effects of tax-benefit policies implemented by Bipartite Sectoral Funds (BSFs), institutions established by workers’ unions and employers’ organisations, and conducts a preliminary theoretical analysis of their ...
Croce, Giuseppe
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The Decline in Swedish Union Density since 2007
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2011 Union density remains very high in Sweden. The significantly raised fees for union unemployment funds in January 2007 were followed by an unprecedented decline in the number of union members in modern Swedish history.
Anders Kjellberg
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Promoting fair globalization in textiles and clothing in a post-MFA environment [PDF]
, 2005 The working paper reports on the current trade conditions in the textile clothing industry in the post Multifibre Agreement era. Additionally, the paper advocates for a fairer globalization, promoting better work conditions, labor wages and general ...
International Labour Office
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Ex-ante impact evaluation: case studies from Malawi, Bangladesh and Ghana [PDF]
, 2013 This document presents ex-ante impact evaluations of research for development projects related to aquaculture in Bangladesh, Malawi and Ghana. The Ghana chapter also includes an ex-ante evaluation of a fisheries project.
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Nordic Journal of Working Life StudiesA pandemic may change the use of social protection systems. In this article, we compare Scandinavian reform trajectories of unemployment benefits and sickness benefits following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mattias Bengtsson +2 more
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