Problems of justice, such as high managerial salaries or the introduction of minimum wages, today arouse a lot of public attention and debate. This hints at the general fact that "justice" cannot be reduced to mere efficiency questions as economists very often tend to assume. Therefore, this paper deals with opportunities to include aspects of social justice in economic analyses. The authors describe the historical development from the Aristotelian concept of justice via the medieval idea of pretium iustum towards the classical liberal approach of Adam Smith. The limits of a pure liberal concept of justice even in modern market societies are revealed which in turn indicate the necessity of an integrated approach that applies the instruments of contemporary economics, but also allows for...
This paper provides an overview of the sequential shift towards activating labor market and social policy in Germany. It not only shows the changes in the instruments of active and passive labor market policies but also analyzes the implications of this change for the political economy and the legal structure of a "Bismarckian" welfare state. Our study points at the changes in Germany's status- and occupation-oriented unemployment benefit regime that has been relinquished for a larger share of benefit recipients. Unemployment insurance benefit duration is shorter now and newly created basic income support for needy persons is not earnings-related anymore. Pressure on unemployed to take up jobs has increased considerably while more persons than before have access to labor market programs...
... claims that did not match the guaranteed minimum income. Social assistance was funded by the munici... to be achieved that is related to prior wages and to the benefit levels. In earlier times, the p...
... claims that did not match the guaranteed minimum income. Social assistance was funded by the munici... to be achieved that is related to prior wages and to the benefit levels. In earlier times, the p...
Growing diffusion of temporary agency work, in conjunction with the growing importance of human capital management, leads to the question who invests in the human capital of temporary agency workers. Therefore, we investigate the parties' incentives to invest and review the small number of existing empirical works. We show that there are incentives for all parties to invest even in general human capital, using the human capital theory and the concept of psychological contracts. Clients' incentives to invest crucially depend on their motives for using temporary agency work. Additionally, we analyze the evolving externalities of the investments and draw some conclusions concerning the implications for the further training of temporary agency workers.
... to working conditions (equal treatment) and wages (equal pay) (Burda/Kvasnicka 2006, 203). The only ... providing that wages do not fall below a minimum level. Another possibility for agencies to motivat...
... unions feared undercutting of established minimum wages. Employers favored cuts of benefit levels, a...
... he may claim the penalty as the minimum amount of damages (section 340f. BGB). 63844 ..., e.g., the claim for the payment of wages under the Enforcement in respect of Wages Ordinanc...
To evaluate the prevalence in Eastern Europe of a little discussed illegitimate wage practice in which employers pay their formal employees both a declared wage and an undeclared 'envelope wage', an extensive survey involving 10,671 face-to-face interviews in eleven post-socialist societies is here reported. The finding is that 10 per cent of all employees received envelope wages during the last 12 months amounting on average to two fifths of their gross annual wage. Revealing how although unevenly distributed, this wage practice is nonetheless ubiquitous throughout Eastern Europe, the paper concludes by briefly reviewing policy options for tackling this labour arrangement. Der Beitrag untersucht die wenig erforschte illegale Praxis in Osteuropa, wonach Arbeitgeber ihren Mitarbeitern so...
... systems, and raising the level of the minimum wage. In Eastern Europe, that is, minimum wage lev...
An opposition between social cooperation (stakeholderism) and Neoliberal market solutions paralyzes political and scientific debate on reform in Germany today. This essay rejects that opposition by recasting the way in which each of the categories is understood. Pressure to become more flexible in many areas of work and organizational life has not given rise to a blanket embrace of "the market" on a local level. Instead, it has induced widespread experimentation with alternative forms of workplace and firm governance that involve continual and collaborative recomposition of stakeholder roles in and among firms and social actors. In other words, stakeholder governance is not disintegrating or giving way to the market in Germany. It is being redefined. Experimentation with roles and rules...
...The new workers were paid wages set at the regionally bargained minimum rate, rath...
... unions feared undercutting of established minimum wages. Employers favored cuts of benefit levels, a...
Using a longitudinal case study approach this study examines the approaches to international industrial relations (IIR) in eleven Chinese multinational corporations MNCs. It reveals that the Chinese MNCs adopted an integrative approach to IIR, combining both the home and host country industrial relations (IR) systems. The extent of home-based or host-based IR was dependent on the MNC's bargaining power, which was determined by the size of the subsidiaries, their abilities to transfer knowledge and technology, and their reliance on the host market. International experience and industry also affected IIR approaches. The practical implications of the findings are discussed.
... embedded in labour standards, including wages and working conditions that MNCs set for host coun... with local labour regulations, including minimum wages, paid holidays, and diversity management. Th...
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