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Traxler, Franz, Arrowsmith, James, Nergaard, Kristine and Lopez-Rodo, Joaquim M. Molins. (2008) Variable pay and collective bargaining : a cross-national comparison of the banking sector. Economic and Industrial Democracy, Volume 29 (Number 3). pp. 406-431. ISSN 0143-831X

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831X08093376

Abstract

This article analyses the challenge of variable pay to collective bargaining, based on a cross-national comparison that takes banking organizations in Austria, Norway, Spain and the UK as representatives of Europe's principal bargaining systems. The hypothesis is that the capacity of collective bargaining to govern variable pay varies with the bargaining system. As the findings show, articulated multi-employer bargaining is more able to govern variable pay than its unarticulated counterpart and single-employer bargaining. Within the case of articulated multi-employer bargaining, single-channel systems of employee workplace representation are superior to dual systems, all the more since the former equip the unions with selective incentives for membership.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Subjects:

H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor

Divisions:

Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):

Employee rights, Industrial relations, Collective bargaining -- Banks and banking, Wage payment systems, Banks and banking

Journal or Publication Title:

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Publisher:

Sage Publications Ltd.

ISSN:

0143-831X

Official Date:

August 2008

Dates:

Date	Event
August 2008	Published

Volume:

Volume 29

Number:

Number 3

Number of Pages:

Page Range:

pp. 406-431

Identification Number:

10.1177/0143831X08093376

Status:

Peer Reviewed

Publication Status:

Published

Access rights to Published version:

Restricted or Subscription Access

Funder:

European Science Foundation (ESF), Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Austria) (FWF), Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC)

Grant number:

P16904-G04 (FWF), RES-000-23-0453 (ESRC)

Version or Related Resource:

Earlier version of this paper was presented at: 8th European Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association, Manchester, England, Sep 03-06, 2007

Type of Event:

Conference

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