Wage Determination and Information Sharing: An Alternative Approach to Incomes Policy?

1983 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haruo Shimada
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
Japanese Economy ◽  
Wage Determination ◽  
Labour Market Flexibility ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Incomes Policy ◽  
Oil Crises

The flexibility of the Japanese labour market attracts attention domestically as well as abroad. It is widely believed that labour market flexibility, particularly of wages, has been highly instrumental in rapidly restoring the equilibrium of the Japanese economy with stable prices and nearly full employment through the storms of the oil crises in the 1970s. The paper first identifies the meaning of alleged wage flexibility in the context of the Japanese labour market. Next it reviews what has happened in the system of wage determination under collective bargaining, known as shuntō or synchronised wage negotiations in spring, during the adjustment years following the oil crises. The prime focus is on the functional reforms of the shuntō system as a source of renderinig flexibility to aggregate patterns of wage changes. Finally the paper attempts to interpret such developments from the viewpoint of corporatism.

scholarly journals The floor of rights in European labour law

1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Deakin
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Labour Market Flexibility ◽  
European Labour Law ◽  
The Way

Most European countries have legislated to provide a basic floor of rights which underpins collective bargaining. This article reviews the experiences of the major European countries and examines the way that the floor of rights is being extended. It also discusses the floor of rights in the context of the search for labour market flexibility.

Cross-sectoral coordination and regulation of wage determination in northern Europe: Divergent responses to multiple external pressures

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Erik Dølvik ◽  
Paul Marginson
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Wage Bargaining ◽  
Wage Determination ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Northern European ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
Incomes Policy ◽  
Wage Regulation ◽  
Wage Floor

We examine changes in collective wage regulation in five northern European countries since 2000, with a focus on coordination across sectors, articulation between levels and determination of wage floors. Earlier change in the functioning of wage bargaining arrangements in Germany placed pressure on other northern countries. In Finland, employers recently instigated a shift from tripartite incomes policy to manufacturing-led pattern bargaining, with increased scope for decentralized negotiations. This made Finnish arrangements more similar to their Nordic counterparts, which have been marked by modest adaptations. Divergence continues in wage floor regulation. Increased statutory generalization of collectively agreed minimum wages has moved Germany and Norway closer to Finland, while Denmark and Sweden still rely solely on collective bargaining. The multi-faceted employer and state approaches to wage regulation are not consistent with recent claims of a neoliberal transformation across the northern coordinated economies.

scholarly journals LA BO UR RELA TIO N S A N D TH E 1990’ S EM PLO Y MEN T REGIMES IN CANADA AND BRAZI L

Just Labour ◽  
1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Costa
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Competition ◽  
Market Structures ◽  
Labour Rights ◽  
Labour Market Flexibility ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Social Expenditures ◽  
Labour Flexibility

n an environment of global economic competition, corporations and the state have focused their strategies of competitive adjustment on labour flexibility and deregulation and reductions in social expenditures. In many countries, these policies led to the abandonment of full employment and increases in precarious or non-regulated employment. This article analyzes the main political and institutional elements of labour within Canada and Brazil, as well as recent changes in their employment regimes and labour market structures. Key research findings show us that greater labour market flexibility in both countries resulted in a reduction of labour rights that has contributed to the precariousness of work, increasing inequality in Canada, and higher levels of underemployment and poverty in Brazil.

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

1992 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Harbridge ◽  
David Rea
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Labour Market Flexibility

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.

Labour market flexibility in Japan: 1960–2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 115-143
Author(s):  
Makoto Masui ◽  
◽  
Paweł Młodkowski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Market Flexibility

Party System

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaad Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Party System ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Market Reforms ◽  
Intermediate Variable ◽  
Labour Market Flexibility ◽  
Labour Market Reforms ◽  
The Impact

The chapter discusses the party system in the macro context of politics. It highlights the limitations of political party and interest group analysis without reference to the political competition that shapes behaviour in politics. The chapter discusses theoretically the impact of party system on labour market flexibility and proceeds to show the interrelation between party competition and the behaviour of political parties, composition of socio-economic support bases, and the behaviour of interest groups that influence reform. In the context of labour market flexibility, the party-system operates as an intermediate variable facilitating reforms. The chapter contradicts the conventional notion that party system fragmentation impedes reform by showing how increasing party competition corresponds to greater labour market reforms. It shows that increases in the number of parties, facilitates labour market reforms through marginalization of the issue of labour, realignment of class interests within broader society and fragmentation of trade union movement.

scholarly journals Introduction to the special issue: multiple jobholding in Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-147
Author(s):  
Wieteke Conen ◽  
Karin Schulze Buschoff
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Clear Trend ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Labour Market Flexibility ◽  
Employment Situation ◽  
Over Time

In a number of European countries there is a clear trend towards increased multiple jobholding. As things stand, however, little is known about the structure and the potential consequences of this increase, notably in terms of quality of work and social protection. This special issue focuses on contemporary forms of multiple jobholding in Europe. Have the structure, nature and dynamics of multiple jobholding changed over time? What are the roles of labour market flexibility, technological change and work fragmentation in the development of multiple jobholding? And do multiple jobholders benefit from similar and adequate employment terms, conditions and protections compared with single jobholders, or are they worse off as a consequence of their (fragmented) employment situation? What implications do these findings have for unions, policy-makers and the regulation of work? The collection of articles in this special issue adds to the literature on emerging forms of employment in the digital age and challenges for social protection, also in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. This introduction initiates a discussion of central debates on multiple jobholding and presents a synopsis of the articles in this issue.

Changing labour market flexibility in the European union

2002 ◽  
Vol 138 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric J. Pentecost ◽  
John G. Sessions
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Labour Market Flexibility
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