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.

TAXONOMIC ANALYSIS OF DIVERSITY OF LOCAL LABOUR MARKETS IN POLAND

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 437-448
Author(s):  
Ewa Rollnik-Sadowska ◽  
Marta Jarocka ◽  
Ewa Glińska
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Labour Market Situation ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Local Labour Markets ◽  
Local Labour

The situation in the labour market is conditioned by many factors that often have a local dimension. Identification of different levels of development of labour demand as well as potential of labour supply on the local level is a crucial element of diagnosis of reasons for regional and local diversity and implementation of an appropriate labour market policy. As there is available a variety of indicators describing regional labour relations, there is a need to create synthetic measure to include different aspects of the labour market situation. The aim of the paper is identification of the diversity of the situation in the local labour markets of all 16 Polish voivodeships. At the first step, a synthetic measure including eight variables was created. At the second stage 16 Polish voivodeships were clustered following Ward’s and k-means methods. As the authors assume that the position of voivodeship labour markets is connected with the position of capital cities, the analysis was deepened by ranking voivodeship cities based on Hellwig’s method. As a result of conducted research and the classification of Polish voivodeships and their capital cities in the context of the situation in the labour market, there have been identified the reasons of regions’ positions and proposed recommendations for the labour market policy. 

The Danish Labour Market Model

2020 ◽  
pp. 558-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laust Høgedahl
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Union Density ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Active Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Active Labour

The Danish labour market model is renowned for combining a high degree of flexibility for employers and security for workers. In addition, the labour market parties (trade unions and employer organizations) have a long tradition of conducting collective bargaining to regulate key elements such as wages and working conditions. Since collective agreements cover important components of labour market regulation, Danish labour market policy has been focused on correcting imperfections in the labour market through an active labour market policy. However, since the new millennium, a number of policy changes have created a significant impact on the Danish labour market model, especially in terms of eroding the security elements of the model. Additional fundamental changes might also be linked to structural effects such as a decreasing trade union density and declining collective bargaining coverage in some parts of the private sector.

scholarly journals The state and class discipline: European labour market policy after the financial crisis

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Umney ◽  
Ian Greer ◽  
Özlem Onaran ◽  
Graham Symon
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Labour Market Policies ◽  
Active Labour Market Policies ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Before And After

This article looks at two related labour market policies that have persisted and even proliferated across Europe both before and after the financial crisis: wage restraint and punitive workfare programmes. It asks why these policies, despite their weak empirical records, have been so durable. Moving beyond comparative-institutionalist explanations which emphasise institutional stickiness, it draws on Marxist and Kaleckian ideas around the concept of ‘class discipline’. It argues that under financialisation, the need for states to implement policies that discipline the working class is intensified, even if these policies do little to enable (and may even counteract) future stability. Wage restraint and punitive active labour market policies are two examples of such measures. Moreover, this disciplinary impetus has subverted and marginalised regulatory labour market institutions, rather than being embedded within them.

5. Labour markets

2018 ◽  
pp. 70-88
Author(s):  
Philip N. Jefferson
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Skill Level ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Financial Return ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Skill Gaps ◽  
And Gender

For most people, their performance in the labour market determines their station in life. What determines who earns what in the labour market? Are there systemic impediments that inhibit the ability of particular groups to prosper in the labour market? What is the role of education, skills, race, and gender? Are there ways to make the financial return on work greater regardless of skill level? If skills are lacking, are there policies that directly help to close skill gaps? ‘Labour markets’ considers these questions and concludes that a goal of labour market policy is to create pathways out of poverty. Well-functioning labour markets facilitate the economic mobility of people over the course of their lifetimes and across generations.

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