Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1111/labr.12239
Patrick Wagner, Damian Raess
{"title":"South to north investment linkages and decent work in Brazil","authors":"Patrick Wagner, Damian Raess","doi":"10.1111/labr.12239","DOIUrl":"10.1111/labr.12239","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Over the last 25 years, the BRICs asserted themselves as drivers of globalization. But what does their new-found prominence mean for working conditions at home? Using a novel sub-national database covering outward investment linkages and working conditions in Brazilian municipalities, this study tests whether a direct investment in Europe leads to the introduction of decent working conditions in Brazil. The empirical results provide strong support for the investing-up effect using a mixture of panel data analysis and text analysis. The results suggest that economic integration with high-standard developed countries can act as a powerful mechanism for labor standard improvements in developing countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"37 1","pages":"122-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/labr.12239","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43178374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2022-11-14DOI: 10.1111/labr.12236
Franziska Brall, Ramona Schmid
{"title":"Automation, robots and wage inequality in Germany: A decomposition analysis","authors":"Franziska Brall, Ramona Schmid","doi":"10.1111/labr.12236","DOIUrl":"10.1111/labr.12236","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We conduct a decomposition analysis based on recentred influence function (RIF) regressions to disentangle the relative importance of automation and robotization for wage inequality in the manufacturing sector in Germany between 1996 and 2017. Our measure of automation threat combines occupation-specific scores of automation risk with sector-specific robot densities. We find that besides changes in the composition of individual characteristics, structural shifts among different automation threat groups are a non-negligible factor associated with wage inequality between 1996 and 2017. Moreover, the increase in wage dispersion among the different automation threat groups has contributed significantly to higher wage inequality in the 1990s and 2000s.</p>","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"37 1","pages":"33-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/labr.12236","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45177730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2022-11-10DOI: 10.1111/labr.12237
Michele Campolieti
{"title":"An event study analysis of the effects of collective bargaining legislation on strike outcomes","authors":"Michele Campolieti","doi":"10.1111/labr.12237","DOIUrl":"10.1111/labr.12237","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I consider the effects of legislation for conciliation and cooling-off periods, which were introduced in the Canadian Industrial Disputes and Investigation Act of 1907, on strike duration and person-days lost to strikes. I estimate the effects of this legislation on strike duration and persons-days lost to strikes using bargaining pair level data from 1901 to 1915 with a differences-in-difference model as well as an event study methodology. Both of these methodologies exploit variation in legislative coverage because there were some industries that were not covered by the legislation, and so were untreated.</p>","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"37 2","pages":"242-279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45467527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2022-11-07DOI: 10.1111/labr.12238
Espen S. Dahl, Øystein Hernaes
{"title":"Making activation for young welfare recipients mandatory","authors":"Espen S. Dahl, Øystein Hernaes","doi":"10.1111/labr.12238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/labr.12238","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Activation policies to promote self-sufficiency among recipients of welfare and other types of benefits are becoming more common in many welfare states. We evaluate a law change in Norway making welfare receipt conditional on participation in an activation program for all welfare recipients below the age of 30. Analysing the program's staggered implementation across municipalities with several modern event study estimators, we estimate that the law change had quite precise 0-effects on benefit receipt, work and education. We also do not find any effects on the probability of being out of work or of being in employment, education or labour market programs. Qualitative evidence suggests that the zero effect may be due to the law change only impacting the participation of recipients with low expected gain from activation.</p>","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"37 1","pages":"96-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50137972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2022-07-26DOI: 10.1111/labr.12230
Sandro Rondinella, Damiano B. Silipo
{"title":"The effects of chronic migraine on labour productivity: Evidence from Italy","authors":"Sandro Rondinella, Damiano B. Silipo","doi":"10.1111/labr.12230","DOIUrl":"10.1111/labr.12230","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We use the Italian Statistical Institute survey that comprises about 80,000 questionnaires representative of the overall population between 15 and 90 years old to estimate the impact of chronic migraine on absenteeism and labour productivity. Using an ordinary least squares method to determine the direct effect of chronic migraine on labour productivity, we show that a 10 per cent increase in the number of people with chronic migraine increases absenteeism by 11 per cent and reduces labour productivity by 1.1 per cent per year. However, the effects of chronic migraine on absenteeism and labour productivity vary substantially between regions and sectors. Also, the comorbidity of chronic migraine with other illnesses, especially psychological illnesses, contributes to decreasing labour productivity. Most important, the results obtained at the micro level are similar and even more robust at the macro level. The results refer to a specific country, but we claim they can apply to other countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"37 1","pages":"1-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/labr.12230","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42220497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-9061703
John Tully
{"title":"Living and Dying on the Factory Floor: From the Outside In and the Inside Out","authors":"John Tully","doi":"10.1215/15476715-9061703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-9061703","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"18 1","pages":"175-177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42392596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-9061661
T. Carroll
{"title":"They Didn't See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties","authors":"T. Carroll","doi":"10.1215/15476715-9061661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-9061661","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"18 1","pages":"169-170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47845249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3504734
Emilia Soldani
{"title":"Public kindergarten, maternal labor supply, and earnings in the longer run: Too little too late?","authors":"Emilia Soldani","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3504734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3504734","url":null,"abstract":"| Labour. 2021;35:214–263. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/labr The gap between male and female labor force participation (LFP) in the United States is largely driven by the low participation rate of women who have children. For example, based on American Community Survey data, at age thirty the difference in LFP between women with and without children is about 80% of the 9% points gap between male and female.1 Figure 1 shows that this difference exists in other age ranges as well. Survey evidence attributes the low LFP of mothers to the high opportunity costs of working, and the need to find alternative arrangements for their children while they are at work.2 What portion of the DOI: 10.1111/labr.12195","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48875389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-8849400
J. Guard
{"title":"Magnificent Fight: The 1919 Winnipeg General StrikeDirect Action Gets the Goods: A Graphic History of the Strike in Canada1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike","authors":"J. Guard","doi":"10.1215/15476715-8849400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-8849400","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"18 1","pages":"124-127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47601597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-EnglandPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-8767314
Lauren Braun-Strumfels
{"title":"Binational Gatekeepers","authors":"Lauren Braun-Strumfels","doi":"10.1215/15476715-8767314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-8767314","url":null,"abstract":"While the 1891 and 1893 Immigration Acts established inspection protocols that remained in place for decades, less is known about how US agents initially translated gatekeeping laws into the durable policy directives that had a profound effect on the migration of working-class people. Before the “qualitative” restriction of specific racial, social, and economic conditions transitioned to a period of “quantitative” or enumerated exclusion by the 1920s, the US government had to establish a structure to carry out the work of exclusion, but this early era of qualitative gatekeeping is less understood. Italian encounters with federal agents at Ellis Island show how the 1891 and 1893 laws empowered the administrative state to carry out the work of exclusion shadowed by the banality of bureaucratic decision-making. The records of the short-lived Office of Labor Information and Protection for Italians (1894–99), the only outpost of a foreign government allowed to operate in the main processing building on Ellis Island, offers a rare snapshot of the gatekeeping process in its crucial early years. Given that Italians were the single largest ethnic group to be processed at Ellis Island over its sixty-two-year history and the primary target of inspectors in the station’s first decade, their experiences with bureaucratic exclusion illuminate how the United States moved to systematically control working-class migration.","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"18 1","pages":"10-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47168015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}