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{"title":"Just reallocated? Robots displacement, and job quality","authors":"Liliana Cuccu,&nbsp;Vicente Royuela","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12805","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12805","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Concerns over widespread technological unemployment are often dismissed with the argument that human labour is not destroyed by automation but rather reallocated to other tasks, occupations or sectors. When focusing on pure employment levels, the idea that workers are not permanently excluded but ‘just’ reallocated might be reassuring. However, while attention has been devoted to the impact of automation on employment levels, little has been said about the quality of new job matches for displaced workers. Using an administrative longitudinal panel covering a large sample of Spanish workers from 2001 to 2017, we investigate the short- and medium-term re-employment prospects of workers displaced from sectors with an increasing density of industrial robots. Furthermore, we examine the role of reallocation to other sectors or local labour markets as adjustment mechanisms. Our analysis suggests that exposed middle- and low-skilled workers are more likely than non-exposed workers to remain unemployed 6 months after displacement. Among those who find a new occupation, an additional robot per 1000 workers increases the probability of being re-employed in a lower paying job by about 1.9 percentage points for middle- and low-skilled workers, with significantly higher penalties for those who relocate to a different sector. Moreover, these workers tend to face a qualification downgrading in the new job and are more likely to be re-employed through temporary employment agencies. High-skilled workers are less negatively affected by exposure, although they can also incur a penalty when changing sectors.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"62 4","pages":"705-731"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140197754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effect of enterprise unions on employment adjustment speed in Japanese firms","authors":"Tomohiko Noda,&nbsp;Daisuke Hirano","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12804","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12804","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using 20-year dynamic panel data, we analysed the difference in employment adjustment speed and behaviour between unionized and non-unionized firms, whether continuous or discontinuous, to investigate the effects of enterprise unions on job security in Japan. We confirmed that unionized firms were more reluctant to downsize and continue to offer stronger job security than non-unionized firms. However, the unions’ influence on job security has gradually weakened. The primary contribution of this study is its clarification that unions in Japan played the role of guardians of job security under increasing globalization and technological innovation over the 20-year sample period. Our clarification provides evidence that a different type of union, distinct from those in Western countries aiming for wage increases, is deeply embedded in the Japanese stakeholder system.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"62 3","pages":"645-669"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140172821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The real living wage: Civil regulation and the employment relationship by Edmund Heery-Deborah, Hann-David Nash, Oxford University Press, 2023. 283 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-883526-4, Price £76","authors":"Peter Prowse","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12803","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12803","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"62 3","pages":"642-644"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140172201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero by Gregor Gall, Manchester University Press, 2024. ISBN: 978-1-5261-7309-6. Price: £20.00","authors":"Michael Andrew MacNeil","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12807","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12807","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"62 3","pages":"640-641"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140172205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The presence, role and economic impact of Employers’ Associations in Europe","authors":"Dieter Sadowski","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12806","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12806","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Employers’ Associations (EAs), a major pillar of Western industrial relations and corporatist political systems, are notoriously under-researched compared to their counterparts, the unions. Beginning with Mancur Olson, their theoretical analysis has been further developed by Philip Schmitter and Wolfgang Streeck in particular. Beyond some descriptive studies of mainly aggregate developments, with Franz Traxler at the forefront, there has been, however, a lack of empirical studies based on microdata. This situation has recently changed for the better with the availability of new databases − often country-specific, but some also suited for international comparisons − and with the accompanying development of micro-econometric methods.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is no need for a detailed account of these developments in my introduction, because the following papers quote the theoretical milestones and the empirical and methodical advancements on which they build. Despite their small number and differing focus, the five selected papers present the current state of our knowledge − and our ignorance − on the role and the impact of EAs in Europe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even pure EAs may pursue various activities beyond collective bargaining to favour their members’ interests, such as offering legal services directly or via preferential group contracts, lobbying, information sharing and training. Where an EA not only deals with employment matters, but cares also for other member interests, like marketing or financing issues, in so-called mixed EAs, the variety of activities is obviously even greater.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bryson and Willman&lt;/i&gt; assert in their conceptual keynote that EAs, as colluding collectives, face a multi-issue mission drift, whether pure or mixed. The selection of specific activities depends on the industry's collusion climate, which includes labour, product, financial and political market considerations, according to Bryson and Willman's strategic collusion approach. The authors effectively demonstrate the productivity of their contingency perspective in two ways. Firstly, they assert the significance of ‘no poaching’ and ‘no solicitation’ agreements in the absence of collective bargaining in the United States. Secondly, they confidently explain the decline of collective bargaining in the UK and Germany, where attempts to influence minimum wage legislation and occupational licensing can be seen as a substitute for collective bargaining.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a novel 27-country comparison of approximately 30,000 establishments, &lt;i&gt;Lehr, Jansen and Brandl&lt;/i&gt; examine the determinants of membership in pure EAs and whether these associations provide preferential treatment to their larger members. The analysis uses the European Company Survey (ECS) microdata, which expresses membership as a proportion of companies/establishments rather than as a proportion of the relevant labour force. At the establishment level, the independent variables considered are the presence and strength of employee","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"62 3","pages":"670-673"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.12806","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140147914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Do unions increase participation in further education?","authors":"Fredrik B. Kostøl","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12802","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12802","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The race between education and technology is a key issue for trade unions. Unions often include skill upgrading and training in collective bargains, which might be an important tool to facilitate lifelong learning. In this article, I investigate how trade unions influence workers’ participation in further education using Norwegian-matched employer–employee panel data on full-time workers and a fixed-effects framework. In contrast to most existing studies, which rely on more or less representative surveys, our data comprise the entire working population over a period of 16 years, allowing us to control for unobserved individual heterogeneity. An increase in the workplace union density is estimated to raise the individual propensity to participate in tertiary vocational education. I also find that workers in unionized establishments enjoy higher salaries during further education but at the expense of lower post-training wage premiums. In addition, unions are found to lower employee turnover. Together, these findings give empirical support to the theoretical prediction of Acemoglu and Pischke (1999), where firms may optimally choose to sponsor investments in workers’ skills in the absence of perfect competition in the labour market.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"62 3","pages":"614-639"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.12802","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140147918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Job quality in worker cooperatives: Beyond degeneration and intrinsic rewards","authors":"Lisa Dorigatti,&nbsp;Francesco E. Iannuzzi,&nbsp;Valeria Piro,&nbsp;Devi Sacchetto","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12798","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12798","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While there are normally positive expectations concerning job quality in cooperatives, many studies have described a more complex picture. The extant literature has, however, found it difficult to deal with evidence of poor working conditions in these organisations. Some contributions downplay the relevance of this issue, arguing that poor extrinsic aspects of job quality are compensated by intrinsic rewards, as confirmed by higher levels of job satisfaction. Others focus on external market pressure and interpret bad labour conditions as a form of degeneration of originally good employment practices. Through a qualitative analysis of job quality in cooperatives in three sectors of the Italian economy (social services, hotel cleaning and meat processing), we advance a different argument: we contend that employment practices associated with poor job quality are not the result of difficult market conditions but are rather the key explanation for the quantitative expansion of this form of economic organisation, which has moved from being an instrument for promoting good employment to a way of ensuring lower labour costs and higher flexibility within outsourcing relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"62 3","pages":"591-613"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140114903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On the emergence of cooperative industrial and labour relations","authors":"Gabriele Cardullo,&nbsp;Maurizio Conti,&nbsp;Andrea Ricci,&nbsp;Sergio Scicchitano,&nbsp;Giovanni Sulis","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12800","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12800","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We explore the long-run determinants of current differences in the degree of co-operative labour relations at the local level. We do this by estimating the effect of the medieval communes –that were established in certain cities in Centre-Northern Italy towards the end of the 11th century – and that contributed to the emergence of a co-operative attitude in the population on various proxies for current co-operative labour relations. Conditional on a large set of firm and municipality level controls, as well as a full set of province fixed effects, we find that firms located in municipalities that had been a free medieval commune in the past have higher current probabilities to adopt two-tier bargaining structures and to be unionized. We also report instrumental variables (IV) and propensity score estimates that confirm our main results.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"62 3","pages":"568-590"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140099440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What do platform workers in the UK gig economy want?","authors":"Nicholas Martindale,&nbsp;Alex J. Wood,&nbsp;Brendan J. Burchell","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12797","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12797","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite the considerable debate concerning the gig economy, research has yet to investigate what platform workers themselves want. In part, this is due to the difficulty of undertaking traditional social surveys in this sector. Therefore, this article makes use of a novel research design that generates a strategic non-probability sample of 510 platform workers with which to investigate workers’ preferences regarding labour rights, representation and voice. Findings suggest strong support for labour rights, trade unions and co-determination. The low pay, insecurity, risk and lack of organizational voice that we find provides a rationale for these preferences. Moreover, platform workers’ preferences are seemingly influenced by wider inequalities, with significant differences according to gender and country of birth.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"62 3","pages":"542-567"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.12797","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140070167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Politics of Migrant Labour: Exit, Voice, and Social Reproduction by Gabriella Alberti and Devi Sacchetto, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2024. 273 pp., ISBN: 978-1-5292-2773-4, 85.00 GBP.","authors":"Hong Yu Liu","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12801","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12801","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"62 3","pages":"540-541"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140055915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}