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

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  • Raymond Harbridge
  • David Rea

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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.

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  • Raymond Harbridge & David Rea, 1992. "Collective Bargaining and the Labour Market Flexibility Debate in New Zealand: A Review," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 3(1), pages 126-152, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecolab:v:3:y:1992:i:1:p:126-152
    DOI: 10.1177/103530469200300109
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    1. Danièle Meulders & Luc Wilkin, 1987. "Labour market flexibility :critical introduction to the analysis of a concept," ULB Institutional Repository 2013/57880, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    2. Schultze, Charles L, 1985. "Microeconomic Efficiency and Nominal Wage Stickiness," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 75(1), pages 1-15, March.
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    2. Cees Gorter & Jacques Poot, 1998. "The impact of labour market deregulation: lessons from the "Kiwi" and "Polder" models," ERSA conference papers ersa98p481, European Regional Science Association.

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