Industrial relations in changing times

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This article examines the role of collective bargaining in industrial relations, focusing on the form the agreements take in order to assure the peace between employers and employees. The author uses an economic perspective to explain the behavior of agents taking part in collective agreements, with the aid of insurance models and switching strategies; the legitimization crisis of trade unions is discussed, as well as their declining numbers, suggesting more firm-specific rather than industry-wide focus by unions when bargaining to reverse this trend.

Analysis, Human resource management, Negotiation, Negotiations, Collective bargaining, Labor unions, Industrial management

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Land relations under unbearable stress: Rwanda caught in the Malthusian trap

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A case study of northwest Rwanda showed that the increasing inequality of land distribution and rising incidence of poverty are caused by quasi-landlessness and the nonexistence of regular off-farm incomes. The access to regular off-farm incomes opportunities serves to highlight the inequalities in land distribution via the operation of active and illegal land market. Social relations and family life are also affected by the increasing incidence of land disputes and threats of land dispossession.

Administration of Conservation Programs, Land Programs, Social aspects, Rwanda, Land use, Land tenure, Public lands, Farm ownership

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Engineers on the Production Floor? State-Level Evidence that Patenting and Production Locate Together

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This paper studies the correlation between research and development on the one hand and production on the other, in the same place, from a national and sub-national points of view.

Research & Development, Scientific Research and Development Services, United States, Innovations, High technology industry, Research institutes, Production (Economics)

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