勞動市場制度對工業衝突之影響：探索性分析

Are Labor Market Institutions so Determining the Level of Industrial Conflict?

本文旨在探討比較工業關係領域裡一個有趣的問題：到底勞動市場制度對於工業衝突程度的變化有無舉足輕動的影響？為了顯現二者間的實際關係，作者運用比較型態的相關性分析；並將觀察的對象從過去文獻常用的OECD國家，擴大至東亞新興國家。在樣本納入三個非西方國家之後，本研究發現：集中化的工會組織與集體協商結構，並不必然是工業和平的充分或必要條件。換言之，本文的研究結果否定了傳統制度學派對於工業關係的若干論點的普遍性。

This paper is aimed at exploring an interesting question in comparative industrial relations literature; Do labor market institutions matter influencing the variations of industrial conflict? In order to demonstrate the realistic relationship between labor market institutions and industrial conflict, the author utilize comparable correlations analyses by expanding observations from the OECD countries to East Asian cases. With the East Asian cases incorporated into the OECD country samples, the author find that centralized union structure and collective bargaining are not necessary and sufficient condition for industrial peace and labor quiescence. In other words, the results drawn from this paper defy the argument of the traditional institutionalism which has been an intellectual mainstream in the field of industrial relations.