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Meardi, Guglielmo, Arnholtz, Jens and Oldervoll, Johannes (2018) Collective wage bargaining under strain in northern European construction : resisting institutional drift? European Journal of Industrial Relations . doi:10.1177/0959680118790816 ISSN 0959-6801.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680118790816
Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Industrial Relations Research Unit Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Wage bargaining -- Construction industry -- Denmark, Wage bargaining -- Construction industry -- Germany, Wage bargaining -- Construction industry -- Netherlands, Wage bargaining -- Construction industry -- Great Britain | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | European Journal of Industrial Relations | ||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 0959-6801 | ||||||
Official Date: | 3 August 2018 | ||||||
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DOI: | 10.1177/0959680118790816 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Re-use Statement: | Meardi, Guglielmo, Arnholtz, Jens and Oldervoll, Johannes (2018) Collective wage bargaining under strain in northern European construction : resisting institutional drift? European Journal of Industrial Relations. Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. Additionally, please provide a link to the appropriate DOI for the published version of the Contribution on the SAGE Journals website (http://journals.sagepub.com). | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 August 2018 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 August 2018 | ||||||
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