Arrowsmith, James and Marginson, Paul (2009) Wage flexibility. Dublin : European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. (ID: TN0803019S).

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Abstract

Increased competition has created pressure for flexibility or variation concerning wages. This can involve the localisation of basic pay-setting, which may or may not be governed by multiemployer bargaining arrangements, and the development of new variable payments systems
(VPS) linked to measures of performance. This study reviews both sets of developments, focusing on two economic sectors – manufacturing and banking. It finds only limited use of ‘downwards’ wage flexibility but evidence of an increasing decentralisation of wage-setting through supplementary bargaining and the introduction of VPS which, especially in banking, are often at the employer’s discretion. Both developments threaten to erode the traditional regulatory function of multi-employer bargaining in particular.

Item Type:	Report
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Industrial Relations & Organisational Behaviour Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Industrial Relations Research Unit
Series Name:	ID: TN0803019S
Publisher:	European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Place of Publication:	Dublin
Official Date:	20 February 2009
Dates:	Date Event 20 February 2009 Published
Number of Pages:	45
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access (Creative Commons)

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