http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26102 2013-05-20T16:08:10Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26182 Title: Insider Power, Outsider Ineffectiveness and Wage Setting Institutions: Evidence from Australia Authors: Dobbie, M. Abstract: Insider-outsider theories have been advanced to explain a range of phenomena, principally the persistence of unemployment. This paper uses data from the Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey 1995, and regional labour force survey data, to test this model. The paper also examines how enterprise bargaining influences the relative power positions of insiders and outsiders. The paper finds provisional support for the insider-outsider distinction, and for the idea that enterprise level wage bargaining enhances insider power at the expense of outsiders. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26181 Title: Labour Market Reforms and Lockouts in New Zealand Authors: Perry, L J Abstract: This paper reviews New Zealand’s experience of lockouts over the last nearly two decades. It employs published and unpublished official (Statistics New Zealand) data plus unofficial data on the following, hitherto ignored, dimensions of lockouts: (i) employees involved in lockouts, (ii) person-days lost due to lockouts and (iii) the average duration of lockouts. The patterns of lockouts are compared for different New Zealand politico-legislative eras from 1986 to 2004. It is found that there has been, over time, a declining trend in the incidence of person-days lost due both to strikes and to lockouts in New Zealand. But the relative incidence of person-days lost due to lockouts vis a vis strikes rose quite sharply during the middle years of the operation of the union-hostile Employment Contracts Act, 1991. Comparisons are made with Australian experience. There are some notable similarities in the pattern of lockouts in both countries, including the tendency for the average duration of lockouts to be considerably longer than the average the duration of strikes. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26180 Title: Voting with Their Feet: Family Friendliness and Parent Employment in Australian Industries, 1981-2001 Authors: Strazdins, L.; Broom, D.H.; Mayerkort, S.; Warren, B. Abstract: Most Australian industries have instigated some family-friendly provisions, but these vary. In some industries, the span of ordinary work hours has also changed, requiring work on evenings, weekends and holidays. Have these changes affected where parents work? Charting 1981 to 2001 Census data, we found that fathers showed an overall decline as a proportion of employed men, with little difference among industries. Mothers also declined as a proportion of employed women, but with divergent industry trends. Retail showed a steep (7 per cent) drop in mothers, following the deregulation of shopping hours. By contrast, the industry with the most family-friendly conditions at the start of the study period (public service) increased its share of mothers by 6 percent. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26179 Title: Protecting Employee Entitlements: Corporate Governance and Industrial Democracy in Australia Authors: Burgess, J.; Lewer, J.; Waring, P. Abstract: The protection of employee entitlements has been an issue of public policy debate following several major corporate failures including HIH and Ansett. While protection remains paramount on the public policy agenda and in the campaigns of trade unions, we argue that there is an equally important, yet neglected issue associated with employee entitlements. Employees are involuntary lenders of capital to their employing organisations. They do not receive interest on their loans and importantly they are invariably denied information, monitoring and voice rights within their organisations. In this article we argue that these rights should be granted to reduce risk to entitlements and in exchange for employer access to this capital. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z