The manufacturing sector: Still an anchor for pattern bargaining within and across countries?

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torsten Müller ◽  
Jon Erik Dølvik ◽  
Christian Ibsen ◽  
Thorsten Schulten

This article investigates the development of collective wage bargaining systems in manufacturing in five countries: Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway and Sweden. We illustrate the responses of collective actors to two key challenges: first, increased cross-country competition between Northern European companies operating within the same high-value/high-cost segment of the market; second, the competitive pressures resulting from increased east-north integration. Our analytical framework sets out different forms and outcomes of institutional change, with a focus on how the responses of collective actors to these two challenges shaped the development of wage bargaining systems.

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-398
Author(s):  
Paul Marginson ◽  
Jon Erik Dølvik

We address developments in collective wage bargaining arrangements in northern Europe in the light of two major political-economic challenges: EU eastern enlargement and the financial and economic crisis which broke in 2008. Through the lens of debates on convergence and divergence, we examine three dimensions of collective wage bargaining: coordination across sectors; articulation between different levels; and regulation of wage floors. We draw on findings from five countries and four sectors. Our analysis undermines the proposition that developments exhibit a common liberalising trajectory. It points to the differential impact of the two major political-economic challenges as between sectors, highlights similar and different policy responses by actors within a sector across countries, reveals differing consequences for governance of collective wage bargaining across sectors and countries, and finds no uniform trend in wage inequality outcomes. L’examen des accords issus de la négociation collective sur les salaires en Europe du Nord est replacé dans le contexte de deux défis politico-économiques majeurs: l’élargissement de l’UE à l’Est et la crise financière et économique qui a éclaté en 2008. La question de l’existence d’une convergence ou d’une divergence est abordée selon trois dimensions de la négociation collective des salaires: la coordination entre les secteurs, l’articulation entre les différents niveaux et la réglementation des planchers salariaux. Nous nous appuyons sur les résultats obtenus dans cinq pays et quatre secteurs. Notre analyse remet en question l’idée selon laquelle les évolutions présentent une trajectoire commune de libéralisation. Elle souligne la différence d’impact, entre les secteurs, des deux principaux défis politico-économiques évoqués et met en lumière les similarités et les différences dans les réponses politiques apportées par les acteurs d’un secteur dans les différents pays. L’analyse montre également les conséquences différentes pour la gouvernance des négociations collectives salariales entre les secteurs et les pays, et ne relève aucune tendance uniforme dans les résultats en matière d’inégalité salariale. Wir befassen uns im vorliegenden Artikel mit der Ausgestaltung von Tarifverhandlungen in Nordeuropa vor dem Hintergrund zweier wichtiger politisch-wirtschaftlicher Herausforderungen: der Osterweiterung der EU und der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise, die 2008 ihren Anfang nahm. Anhand der Debatten über Konvergenz und Divergenz untersuchen wir drei Dimensionen von Tarifverhandlungen: branchenübergreifende Koordinierung, Verständigung zwischen den unterschiedlichen Ebenen und Mindestlohnregelungen. Zu diesem Zweck haben wir Ergebnisse aus fünf Ländern und vier Sektoren ausgewertet. Unsere Analyse widerlegt die Annahme, dass alle Entwicklungen einem gemeinsamen Liberalisierungstrend folgen. Sie zeichnet die unterschiedlichen Auswirkungen der beiden großen politisch-wirtschaftlichen Herausforderungen in den einzelnen Sektoren nach; und beschreibt vergleichbare und unterschiedliche politische Antworten der Akteure eines Sektors in verschiedenen Ländern mit unterschiedlichen Folgen für die Gestaltung von Tarifverhandlungen in Sektoren und Ländern. Ein einheitlicher Trend bei der Entwicklung von Lohnungleichheiten ist nicht festzustellen.


2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Arnholtz ◽  
Guglielmo Meardi ◽  
Johannes Oldervoll

Internationalization, trade union decline, enforcement problems and rising self-employment all strain the effectiveness of collective wage bargaining arrangements in northern European construction. We examine Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK, and show that these strains have pushed trade unions to seek assistance from the state to stabilize wage regulation, but with results that vary according to employer strategies and the power balances between the actors. While Denmark and the UK have barely introduced any state support, Norway has followed the Netherlands and Germany in introducing legal mechanisms for extension of collectively agreed minimum wage terms. The country studies suggest that state assistance alleviates some of the strain, but does not reverse the trends, and the comparison indicates that both institutional innovation and reorganization may be required if wage bargaining is not to drift into different functions.


Author(s):  
Telesca Giuseppe

The ambition of this book is to combine different bodies of scholarship that in the past have been interested in (1) providing social/structural analysis of financial elites, (2) measuring their influence, or (3) exploring their degree of persistence/circulation. The final goal of the volume is to investigate the adjustment of financial elites to institutional change, and to assess financial elites’ contribution to institutional change. To reach this goal, the nine chapters of the book introduced here look at financial elites’ role in different European societies and markets over time, and provide historical comparisons and country and cross-country analysis of their adaptation and contribution to the transformation of the national and international regulatory/cultural context in the wake of a crisis or in a longer term perspective.


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabien Dobbelaere ◽  
Roland Luttens

2020 ◽  
pp. 097215092091256
Author(s):  
Chandrima Ganguly ◽  
Joydeb Sasmal

This article calculates the magnitude of wage differentials across industries in the organized manufacturing sector of India and identifies the major determinants of wage differentiation among the industries. Using data from Annual Survey of Industries in India for the period from 2000–2001 to 2015–2016, this study shows that mean wage is less in labour-intensive industries compared to the capital-intensive industries. The results of panel regression of annual average wage on various industry-specific factors show that productivity of labour is the most important factor in wage determination, and productivity largely depends on capital–labour ratio. The other significant factors in this regard are farm size, amount of profit and proportion of casual and female workers in total employment. Important policy implication of this study is that regulatory wage fixation and wage bargaining outcomes are not as significant as productivity differentials in explaining wage gaps across industries.


Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (16) ◽  
pp. 3466-3485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohui Hu ◽  
Chun Yang

Existing literature on the economic resilience of cities has primarily focused on the study of capabilities and outcomes, while little has been conducted on the evolutionary processes. Drawing upon institutional change and path development concepts, this article develops an analytical framework that explains how different modes of institutional change shape path development processes in relation to economic resilience in cities. This article provides a comparative study on the divergent path development involving distinctive institutional change mechanisms in two Chinese mining cities both facing resource depletion since 2000, namely Zaozhuang in Shandong province and Fuxin in Liaoning province. It shows that Zaozhuang enables endogenously-based layering and conversion that leads to path renewal and creation with a more dynamic resilience engendering structural change, whereas Fuxin is trapped in exogenously-induced institutional thickening that results in path persistence and extension with a less dynamic resilience hindering economic renewal. The findings of this study advance the regional resilience literature by incorporating the role of agency, institutional change and path development in the context of China.


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