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49 lines
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cite: Ahumada2023
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author: Ahumada, P. P.
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year: 2023
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title: "Trade union strength, business power, and labor policy reform: The cases of Argentina and Chile in comparative perspective"
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publisher: International Journal of Comparative Sociology
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uri: https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152231163846
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pubtype: article
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discipline: sociology
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country: global
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period: 2009-2017
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targeting:
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group:
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data: time-series cross-sectional database for collective labour rights and class power disparity
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design: quasi-experimental
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method: OLS; Arellano estimator
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sample: 78
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unit: country
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representativeness: regional
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causal: 0 # 0 correlation / 1 causal
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theory: power resource theory
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limitations: limited 2-observation dataset per country; potential remaining measurement bias due to concurrent shocks
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observation:
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- intervention: collective action (unionization)
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institutional: 1
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structural: 0
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agency: 0
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inequality: income
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type: 0 # 0 vertical / 1 horizontal
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indicator: 1 # 0 absolute / 1 relative
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measures: Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining (FACB) and violation index coding
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findings: more unequal political power distribution hinders processes of collective organisation
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channels:
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direction: # -1 neg / 0 none / 1 pos
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significance: # 0 nsg / 1 msg / 2 sg
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notes:
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A study on the effects of unequal distributions of political power on the extent and provision of collective labour rights.
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It is a combination of quantitative global comparison with qualitative case studies for Argentina and Chile.
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It finds that, for societies in which power is more unequally distributed, collective bargaining possibilities are more limited and weaker.
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It suggests that, aside from a less entrenched trade unionization in the country, the primary channel for the its weakening are that existing collective labour rights are often either restricted or disregarded outright.
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Employers were restricted in their ability to effectively conduct lobbying, and made more vulnerable to what the authors suggest are 'divide-and-conquer' strategies by government with a strongly entrenched trade unionization, due to being more separate and uncoordinated.
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A limit is the strong institutional context of the two countries which makes generalizable application of its underlying channels more difficult to the overarching quantitative analysis of inequality outcomes,
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which retains a potential for measurement bias due to country-level concurrent shocks.
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