scholarly journals Last trends on collective bargaining decentralization

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-169
Author(s):  
Daniel Pérez del Prado
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Mixed Models ◽  
Bargaining Model ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Financial Pressure ◽  
Mediterranean Countries ◽  
Labour Market Regulation ◽  
Model Set

Decentralisation of collective bargaining has been one of the key trends concerning labour market regulation of the last decades. Most of European countries have developed – with different breath and scope – procedures and reforms to strengthen the company level of bargaining. The Great Recession has stressed this orientation, particularly in those countries which were under financial pressure. This paper focuses on the cases of four Mediterranean countries – France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal – in order to assess how decentralisation has been carried out and, most importantly, what kind of practical results have been achieved. On the base of these outcomes, it highlights how the debate concerning the structure ofcollective bargaining is changing from a black or white perspective to a new one in which mixed models are possible if the whole system is coordinated, taking into consideration the type of collective bargaining model set in the country.  

Growth, Unemployment, and Wages in EU Countries since the Great Recession

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Brůha ◽  
Oxana Babecká Kucharčuková
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Macroeconomic Shocks ◽  
Parametric Curve ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Labour Market Regulation ◽  
Economic Developments

In this chapter, we contribute to the research investigating how institutions and regulations affect the resilience of countries to adverse macroeconomic shocks. To do this, we apply a hierarchical non-parametric curve fitting model to compare economic growth and labour market developments in EU countries since the beginning of the Great Recession. Using the model, we identify four latent classes that represent distinct patterns of the labour market and economic developments. We present evidence that countries in the different classes systematically differ by labour market regulation and quality of institutions. This demonstrates the relevance of institutions and regulation for economies’ resilience to shocks.

scholarly journals European Union: Collective bargaining and internal flexibility during the Great Recession

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santos M. Ruesga ◽  
María Isabel Heredero de Pablos ◽  
Julimar Da Silva Bichara ◽  
Laura Pérez Ortiz ◽  
Ana Viñas Apaolaza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
The Great Recession

scholarly journals The Politics of Austerity and the Conservative Offensive against US Public Sector Unions, 2008-2012

2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 612-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Étienne Cantin
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Public Employees ◽  
Conservative Movement ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Public Sector Unions ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
Government Workers ◽  
Political Economic

SummarySince the onset of the Great Recession, anti-union conservatives have been hammering out an arguably bogus yet politically potent argument: collective bargaining with government workers is unaffordable as their wages, health benefits, and pensions are driving states into deficits. Whilst evidence does not support the politically motivated attacks on public sector workers and their unions, a confluence of political-economic factors has been abetting efforts to scapegoat public employees and their unions.The first section of this essay places the 2011 wave of anti-public-sector-collective-bargaining statutes in its broad political and economic context. Whilst resulting from a longstanding hostility of the USA’s conservative movement to unionism and collective bargaining, recent anti-public-sector-collective-bargaining statutes are also the outcome of three political-economic developments galvanising anti-union GOPers—first, the fact that most US union members are now government workers, which makes it easier for anti-unionists to characterize them as a “privileged” elite; second, the Great Recession and ensuing deficit crisis; and third, the rousing of the conservative movement that led to the 2010 electoral “shellacking” of the Democrats. The second section focuses specifically on Wisconsin and argues that what is going on there ought to be seen for what it is: an attempt to exploit the economic crisis to win an eminently political victory over organised labour and allied Democrats.

scholarly journals Measuring Uncertainty for Poverty Indicators at Regional Level: The Case of Mediterranean Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 8159
Author(s):  
Ilaria Benedetti ◽  
Federico Crescenzi ◽  
Tiziana Laureti
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Income Poverty ◽  
Jackknife Method ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Replication Method ◽  
Mediterranean Countries ◽  
Poverty Indicators ◽  
Variance Estimates

Over the last years, there has been an increased interest in compiling poverty indicators as well as in providing uncertainty measures both at national and regional level. In this paper, we provide point and variance estimates of two widely used income-poverty indicators, which belong to the class of the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT), and two widely used income-inequality indicators. We focused on Mediterranean countries since they have been severely hit by the Great Recession which increased poverty intensity and socio-economic inequalities. By using the 2018 EU-SILC data we analysed the spatial distribution of poverty by constructing maps at NUTS2 territorial level. Our estimation results reveal that national poverty indicators hide a high heterogeneity of poverty across regions within each country, especially for Italy and Spain. This study also provides computations of standard errors at regional level which have been explored only in a limited number of papers. To this aim we adopted the Jackknife replication method thanks to its convenient properties. As expected, the uncertainty measure is influenced by the reduced number of sampling units in each NUTS2 region especially in some regions of Spain and Italy. The Jackknife method proved to perform well in the case of income-inequality indicators especially for Greece, Italy, Croatia and Portugal.

scholarly journals Negotiating the Great Recession: How Teacher Collective Bargaining Outcomes Change in Times of Financial Duress

AERA Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 233285841985508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine O. Strunk ◽  
Bradley D. Marianno
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
District Level ◽  
Instructional Time ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Teacher Salaries ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Grievance Procedures ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Level Data

This article examines how teacher collective bargaining agreements (CBAs), teacher salaries, and class sizes changed during the Great Recession. Using a district-level data set of California teacher CBAs that includes measures of subarea contract strength and salaries from 2005–2006 and 2011–2012 tied to district-level longitudinal data, we estimate difference-in-difference models to examine bargaining outcomes for districts that should have been more or less fiscally constrained. We find that unions and administrators change critical elements of CBAs and district policy during times of fiscal duress. This includes increasing class sizes, reducing instructional time, and lowering base salaries to relieve financial pressures and negotiating increased protections for teachers in areas with less direct financial implications, including grievance procedures and nonteaching duties.

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