scholarly journals The Labour Party's Policy on Industrial Relations: A Critique

1970 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Boxall
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy

This article offers a personal review of the policy on industrial relations released by the New Zealand Labour Party in September 1992 and elucidated in the paper by Labour's spokesperson on industrial relations (Clark, 1993). The first section evolves criteria for assessing contemporary labour market policy in a discussion which reviews the relevant local and international background. The second section applies these criteria to make a general assessment of Labour's policy and to comment on certain specifics. The article closes with brief conclusions.

A turning point for labour market policy in Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Stanford
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Macroeconomic Factors ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Macroeconomic Conditions ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Political Forces

Australian labour market and industrial relations policies are poised for fundamental change. A combination of political and macroeconomic factors has created a historic opportunity to turn away from the individualised, market-driven labour market policy that has prevailed since the 1980s, in favour of a more interventionist and egalitarian approach. Factors contributing to this moment include the breakdown of bipartisan consensus around key neoliberal precepts; growing public anger over inequality, insecure work and stagnant wages; and a weakening of macroeconomic conditions. Australia’s labour market is now marked by underutilisation of labour in various forms, a deterioration in job quality (especially the growth of insecure and precarious work) and unprecedented weakness in wages. The deterioration in job quality and distributional outcomes is the long-term legacy of the post-1980s shift away from Australia’s earlier tradition of equality-seeking institutional structures and regulatory practices. The current malaise in labour markets should be confronted with a comprehensive strategy to both increase the quantity of work available to Australian workers and improve its quality. The major components of such a strategy are identified, and their prospects considered, in light of the economic and political forces reshaping Australia’s labour market. JEL Codes: J28, J38, J53, J58, J83

The Dutch model: An Obvious Candidate for the ‘Third Way’?

1999 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Hemerijck ◽  
Jelle Visser
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Active Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Tightly Coupled

While the progressive European politicians are on the lookout for a new model of ‘third way’ capitalism with a human face, after the (temporary?) defeat of the Swedish, Dutch welfare state reform occupies a prominent place in many commentaries.Although it attracted only international attention in the mid- 1990s, the ‘Dutch miracle’ has its basis in policy changes in the early 1980s. For a full explanation of the Dutch experience we must go back at least fifteen years, and study the combination of problem loads, power shifts, institutions, politics and ideas, in three ‘tightly coupled’ policy domains of the Dutch welfare state: industrial relations, social security, and labour market policy. The return to wage moderation took place in the early followed by a series of reforms in the systems of social security in the late 1980s and early 1990s. From the mid-1990s, finally, the adoption of an active labour market policy stance, in order to enhance overall efficiency and create a new domestic balance between wages and social benefits, gained political currency. In this article we present a stylised narrative of these policy changes—what happened, how it happened and what it meant. We demonstrate that these three policy shifts, although embedded in different corporate actors, were interrelated; they created the conditions and the demand for one another, and neither of these policies could have been successful on its own.

Collective Bargaining and the Labour Market Flexibility Debate in New Zealand: A Review

1992 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Harbridge ◽  
David Rea
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Labour Market Flexibility

This paper reviews the empirical evidence of rigidity in the New Zealand labour market over the period 1984–1990, with particular reference to collective bargaining. It demonstrates that labour market institutions displayed an important degree of flexibility over this period. Despite this, labour markets were stigmatized as ‘inflexible’ in public debate and labour market policy has been driven by the assumption that more flexibility was required.

scholarly journals Economic strength of Slovakia’s regions

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 139-144
Author(s):  
S. Buchta
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Regional Impacts ◽  
The Rich

The article deals with the identification and categorisation of economic power of Slovak regions on the base of collecting of unemployment support payment from the employers, employees, and natural persons entrepreneurs into the employment fund. The analysis shows that during the last years, the number of rich regions has decreased and there rises the number of counties which have to be supported by the division of means from the rich counties. The article consequently categorises the development of economically strong and weak counties of Slovakia in the years 1999–2002 and marks the causes of regional polarisation of Slovakia, lying in its economic and structural difficulties. Alongside increasing the regional polarisation in the rate of unemployment, there continues to rise the re-distribution of funds for labour-market policy from the economically stronger regions to the economically weaker regions, which are reliant on socio-spatial solidarity. The course of economic transformation up to date has had significantly different regional impacts and creates unequal chances for people as well as businesses in the afflicted areas.

The Evaluation of Labour Market Policy

Evaluation ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Günther Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy

scholarly journals New system of employment forecasting in Poland

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-90
Author(s):  
Łukasz Arendt
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Econometric Models ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
On Line ◽  
New System

Abstract The goal of the paper was to describe the system of employment forecasting in Poland and to present forecasts results. The paper described the main assumptions and elements of the system of employment forecasting (the structure of econometric models and on-line forecasting tool). It also elaborated on employment forecasts at national, regional and occupational levels. The analysis of forecasts enabled drawing some conclusions, important from the point of view of the perspectives of the Polish labour market and the labour market policy.

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