Download or read book Pay in Europe in Different Wage bargaining Regimes written by Stefan Speckesser and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pay in Europe in the 21st Century written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of wages has attracted particular attention at European level since the onset of the economic crisis. Changes in economic governance, notably within the European Semester, have prompted discussions on wage-setting mechanisms. While, overall, wage-bargaining regimes have remained relatively stable over time in many countries, the most substantial changes were seen in Member States facing more difficult economic circumstances. This report provides comparative time series on wage-bargaining outcomes across the EU Member States and Norway, discussing pay developments against the background of different wage-bargaining regimes and looks into the link between pay and productivity developments. It also investigates the different systems and levels of minimum wages in Europe at present, carrying out an accounting exercise through a hypothetical scenario of a minimum wage set at 60% of the median national wage (with some alternative scenarios as well for comparison) in order to benchmark and evaluate minimum wage levels and systems in Europe, and to discuss the possibilities and difficulties of coordination in this matter.

Download or read book Wage bargaining under the new European Economic Governance written by Guy Van Gyes and published by ETUI. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the framework of the new European economic governance, neoliberal views on wages have further increased in prominence and have steered various reforms of collective bargaining rules and practices. As the crisis in Europe came to be largely interpreted as a crisis of competitiveness, wages were seen as the core adjustment variable for ‘internal devaluation’, the claim being that competitiveness could be restored through a reduction of labour costs. This book proposes an alternative view according to which wage developments need to be strengthened through a Europe-wide coordinated reconstruction of collective bargaining as a precondition for more sustainable and more inclusive growth in Europe. It contains major research findings from the CAWIE2 – Collectively Agreed Wages in Europe – project, conducted in 2014–2015 for the purpose of discussing and debating the currently dominant policy perspectives on collectively-bargained wage systems under the new European economic governance.

Download or read book Analysis of minimum wage regimes across Europe written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Document from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - Topic: European Union, University of Münster, language: English, abstract: 1. Definition of a “minimum wage” 2. How many countries do have a minimum wage regime across Europe? 3. How high are minimum wages across Europe? 4. Is there a trend towards the minimum wage across Europe? 5. The importance of minimum wages across Europe/ To how many people does a minimum wage apply across Europe? 6. Is the eastern European expansion of the EU a reason for the introduction of minimum wages across Europe? 7. Is a minimum wage regime favourable in economic and social terms? 8. Is there a legal right to gain a sufficient remuneration – a minimum wage? 9. How could a European perspective of a minimum wage regime look like? 10.Are there alternatives to a minimum wage? Further reading

Download or read book Minimum Wage Regimes written by Irene Dingeldey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-06-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book goes beyond traditional minimum wage research to investigate the interplay between different country and sectoral institutional settings and actors’ strategies in the field of minimum wage policies. It asks which strategies and motives, namely free collective bargaining, fair pay and/or minimum income protection, are emphasised by social actors with respect to the regulation and adaptation of (statutory) minimum wages. Taking an actor-centered institutionalist approach, and employing cross-country comparative studies, sector studies and single country accounts of change, the book relates institutional and labour market settings, actors’ strategies and power resources with policy and practice outcomes. Looking at the key pay equity indicators of low wage development and women’s over-representation among the low paid, it illuminates our understandings about the importance of historical junctures, specific constellations of social actors, and sector- and country-specific actor strategies. Finally, it underlines the important role of social dialogue in shaping an effective minimum wage policy. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and policy-makers and practitioners in industrial relations, international human resource management, labour studies, labour market policy, inequality studies, trade union studies, European politics and political economy.

Download or read book Pay in Europe in the 21st Century written by Christine Aumayr-Pintar and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wage and Welfare written by Bernadette Clasquin and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an original multidisciplinary conceptual framework for the analysis of the processes of construction/transformation of workers' social rights. The framework was developed by taking an analysis of employment and social protection in the Latin European countries as starting-point, and thus offers an innovative alternative to the dominant approaches. It takes account of the institutional forms determining employees' resource flows and associated rights, and introduces a new analytical category of «resource regimes». Four spheres are identified for the observation of recent resource regime changes: employment systems, public policy frameworks, social hierarchies and industrial relations systems. The various chapters explore how each of these spheres participates in the institution of social rights over resources, and identify key vehicles of change such as transformations in forms of employment, labour market policies, pension reforms, the swing to a logic of competencies, social pacts, and the processes involved in the construction of the European Union. The book brings to the fore the dynamic relation between employment, wages and social rights and aims to contribute to current debates on social protection reforms and employment policies implemented at both national and European levels.

Download or read book Minimum Wage Regimes written by Irene Dingeldey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book goes beyond traditional minimum wage research to investigate the interplay between different country and sectoral institutional settings and actors’ strategies in the field of minimum wage policies. It asks which strategies and motives, namely free collective bargaining, fair pay and/or minimum income protection, are emphasised by social actors with respect to the regulation and adaptation of (statutory) minimum wages. Taking an actor-centered institutionalist approach, and employing cross-country comparative studies, sector studies and single country accounts of change, the book relates institutional and labour market settings, actors’ strategies and power resources with policy and practice outcomes. Looking at the key pay equity indicators of low wage development and women’s over-representation among the low paid, it illuminates our understandings about the importance of historical junctures, specific constellations of social actors, and sector- and country-specific actor strategies. Finally, it underlines the important role of social dialogue in shaping an effective minimum wage policy. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and policy-makers and practitioners in industrial relations, international human resource management, labour studies, labour market policy, inequality studies, trade union studies, European politics and political economy.

Download or read book Collective Bargaining and Wage Formation written by Hannu Piekkola and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannu Piekkola and Kenneth Snellman ETLA, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, Helsinki, Finland The Labour Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki, Finland 1 The Basic Issues Wages have traditionally been agreed on collectively in Europe. The articles in this volume examine the current state of collective bargaining as well as the ch- lenges it is currently facing. The issues examined in these papers have a wide applicability to problems on the European labour markets. Torben M. Andersen and Steinar Holden review challenges from globalisation and inter-industry trade and the adaptation to a low-inflation environment. The other contributions are part of the project investigating collective bargaining in Finland, carried out by ETLA (the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy) and the Labour Institute for E- nomic Research. Some of them use results from a Finnish survey carried out by the two institutes ETLA and the Labour Institute on the views of employers and employees about labour relations and the labour market negotiation system. Bargaining systems are complex and their future development depends on their historical evolution, recent and past experiences, and the current situation in the labour market, as well as changes in the international environment. By examining the past functioning of the bargaining system one can observe how different e- ments in it have interacted with various factors in the environment of the system.

Download or read book Monetary Regimes and Wage Bargaining Systems written by Torben Iversen and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Collective Bargaining in Labour Law Regimes written by Ulla Liukkunen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the theme of collective bargaining in different legal systems and explores legal framework of collective bargaining as well as the role of different bargaining models in domestic labour law systems in altogether twenty-one jurisdictions throughout the world. Recent development of collective bargaining regimes can be viewed as part of a larger development of labour law models that face increasing challenges caused by globalization and transition of work and workplaces. The book places particular emphasis on identifying and examining most important development trends affecting domestic labour law regimes and collective bargaining and regulatory responses thereto. The analysis offered extents to transnational dimension of collective bargaining. As the chapters analyse the influence of the legal frameworks of collective bargaining in different countries they provide unique comparative insight into the topic which is central to understanding the function of labour law.

Download or read book Collective Bargaining and Wage Formation written by Hannu Piekkola and published by Physica. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannu Piekkola and Kenneth Snellman ETLA, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, Helsinki, Finland The Labour Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki, Finland 1 The Basic Issues Wages have traditionally been agreed on collectively in Europe. The articles in this volume examine the current state of collective bargaining as well as the ch- lenges it is currently facing. The issues examined in these papers have a wide applicability to problems on the European labour markets. Torben M. Andersen and Steinar Holden review challenges from globalisation and inter-industry trade and the adaptation to a low-inflation environment. The other contributions are part of the project investigating collective bargaining in Finland, carried out by ETLA (the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy) and the Labour Institute for E- nomic Research. Some of them use results from a Finnish survey carried out by the two institutes ETLA and the Labour Institute on the views of employers and employees about labour relations and the labour market negotiation system. Bargaining systems are complex and their future development depends on their historical evolution, recent and past experiences, and the current situation in the labour market, as well as changes in the international environment. By examining the past functioning of the bargaining system one can observe how different e- ments in it have interacted with various factors in the environment of the system.

Download or read book Negotiating Our Way Up Collective Bargaining in a Changing World of Work written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collective bargaining and workers’ voice are often discussed in the past rather than in the future tense, but can they play a role in the context of a rapidly changing world of work? This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the functioning of collective bargaining systems and workers’ voice arrangements across OECD countries, and new insights on their effect on labour market performance today.

Download or read book Wage Setting Social Pacts and the Euro written by Anke Hassel and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politicians, economists, and social theorists tend to agree that globalization and neo-liberal economic policy have contributed to the decline of the social compacts underlying traditional European welfare states. Recently, however, social pacts have demonstrated an impressive resurgence, as governments across Europe facing necessary economic policy adjustments have chosen to view trade unions as vital negotiating partners rather than adversaries. Wage Setting, Social Pacts, and the Euro offers a theoretical understanding of the forces that have led to this new understanding, and of the challenges that increasing monetary integration will continue to pose.

Download or read book Approaches to Variable Pay Systems written by Rosa García-Hernández and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The general goal of this thesis is to analyze, in some European countries, the connections of Variable Pay Systems with company behaviour, collective bargaining, wage determination and wage inequality. We introduce three different approaches to Variable Pay Systems. First, a company-industry approach in the case of Spain, using a qualitative methodology and analyzing competitiveness, productivity, unit labor cost and collective agreements. Second, a country-collective bargaining approach in the case of some European countries and using a quantitative methodology. And third, a country-wage determination and wage-inequality approach in the case of some European countries and using a quantitative methodology. A multidisciplinary point of view is used, combining tools from Industrial Relations and from Labor Economics. Wage determination is a commonplace in Labor Economics literature, but considering wages as a "black box", without taking into account any breakdowns like variable forms of remuneration. Industrial Relations analyze factors which are determining Variable Pay Systems without their impact in wage determination or in wage inequality. Some literature justifies the introduction of Variable Pay Systems with the improvement in motivation employees, assuming that it will imply an improvement in productivity level. But our general research question is if there are other factors which are explaining the use of Variable Pay Systems and if there are other implications arising. This thesis is divided in four different chapters. In Chapter 1 we offer a literature review about definition and classification of variable pay schemes. On the one hand, Variable Pay Systems would be linked with globalization and its consequences and with last economic crisis, in terms of different elements like searching for improvements in competitiveness by companies and financialization; so, they would be a consequence of the changes in general economic framework of world economy. And, on the other hand, Variable Pay Systems would be the cause of the improving in motivation employees, in productivity and in competitiveness of the firms. In Chapter 2, we do an analysis of Variable Pay Systems in the case of nine companies from Spanish Automotive industry. We combine information from interviews and from collective agreements legal text with companies economic information, from Sabi database. Using a qualitative methodology (Multi Value Qualitative Comparative Analysis), our main conclusion is that the introduction of Variable Pay Systems would be closer to the strategies of multinational companies looking for higher level of competitiveness (decreasing unit labor cost) than to their strategies looking for improvement in employees motivation. In Chapter 3, we analyze the connection between Variable Pay Systems and collective bargaining regimes. We use three waves (2002, 2006 and 2010) from SES (Structure Earnings Survey) and we chose six different European countries (Finland, Spain, Portugal, France, Romania and Poland) with available data and with different collective bargaining regimes. As a proxy of Variable Pay Systems we use "Annual Bonuses" and its breakdown in Regular bonuses, Productivity bonuses and Profit sharing premiums. We evaluate the probability of earning bonuses (as dependent variable) and if this probability has any kind of pattern connected with collective bargaining regimes. Our main conclusion is as bargaining regimes become much more decentralized, bonuses depend on a larger number of variables (statistically significant), because in these situations they are not included in collective agreements; so, bonuses become much more variable. In Chapter 4, we take the same three waves from SES to analyze the main relevant variables of wage determination, through OLS (Ordinary Least Square) regression applied to a Mincerian wage equation, which includes a proxy of Variable Pay Systems (as independent variable). We use a decomposition of wage variance through difference of the R2 coefficient, in order to look what is the contribution of bonuses to wage variance. Moreover, we introduce Fields decomposition to evaluate which is the contribution of bonuses to wage inequality. One conclusion is that in countries with higher level of decentralization in collective bargaining, are countries with higher percentage in wage variance explanation by productivity bonuses and profit sharing premium. And, other conclusion, is that in countries in which bonuses are explaining the most important part of wage variance are the same countries in which bonuses have highest incidence in wage inequality, through Fields decomposition. In 2010, these countries were Spain, Portugal and Romania.

Download or read book Employment Conditions in Europe written by Margaret Stewart and published by Epping : Gower Press ; [London] : Employment Conditions Abroad Limited. This book was released on 1976 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparison resulting from a survey of employment conditions in EC countries and Austria, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland - covers labour force resources, wages, social security, labour relations and procedures (incl. Recruitment, labour contracts, collective bargaining, trade unions, employers organizations, etc.), and includes an annex comprising sources of information, a bibliography, and a directory of useful addresses in london and europe. Maps and statistical tables.

Download or read book Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector written by Paul F. Clark and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private-sector collective bargaining in the United States is under siege. Many factors have contributed to this situation, including the development of global markets, a continuing antipathy toward unions by managers, and the declining effectiveness of strikes. This volume examines collective bargaining in eight major industries--airlines, automobile manufacturing, health care, hotels and casinos, newspaper publishing, professional sports, telecommunications, and trucking--to gain insight into the challenges the parties face and how they have responded to those challenges.The authors suggest that collective bargaining is evolving differently across the industries studied. While the forces constraining bargaining have not abated, changes in the global environment, including new security considerations, may create opportunities for unions. Across the industries, one thing is clear--private-sector collective bargaining is rapidly changing.