Exam 17: A Survey of Labor Relations in Market Economies

Compared to workers in Western countries,ex-Communist country workers:

Pay inequality in most socialist economies was smaller than in capitalist societies except in the old USSR.

Which of the following European countries has the most adversarial system and decentralized bargaining?

Explain the effects of repressive and benign strategies on growth and unionization and mention the political regimes in which they are likely to be found.

_____ strategies have limited growth implications since there is probably some limit on the potential level of internal consumption,particularly given income levels.

What is the role of works councils in German establishments?

Foreign direct investment by U.S.firms is positively related to union density,centralized collective bargaining,and layoff restrictions.

Repression ceases to be an effective strategy in the second stage of export-oriented industrialization as a developing middle class gains the opportunity to exercise political power.

Exclusive representation of workers is uncommon outside the United States.

Japanese unions emerged just before the World War II and were discouraged by the United States during the martial law period after the war.

What is union density? Write a short note on trends in union density across European nations.

Which of the following movements was largely responsible for catalyzing the breakdown of the Communist system in Poland?

Which of the following refers to an approach implemented by Japanese unions in which the state pressures employers to improve wages to union workers in line with productivity and inflation increases?

Which of the following directives was passed at the EU level in 1994 in anticipation of increasing consolidation and creation of transnational industries in Europe as a result of increased economic integration?

In Europe,Germany and England were early spawning grounds for revolutionary approaches to government and employment.

Regionalization and globalization of the economy have put increasing pressure on unions and reduced their ability to increase wages given the increasingly competitive nature of product markets.

In general,unions are fast gaining ground in Asia and have higher influence there than in Western countries.

Which of the following countries has taken a modernist as opposed to a populist approach,toward a partnership?

Industrial democracy has developed to a much higher degree in most industrialized countries than in the United States.

In which of the following nations does collective bargaining resemble U.S.labor relations,with recognition initially obtained primarily at the plant level and with generally adversarial bargaining at the establishment or corporate level?