Collective wage bargaining under strain in northern European construction: Resisting institutional drift?
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Collective wage bargaining under strain in northern European construction : Resisting institutional drift? / Arnholtz, Jens; Meardi, Guglielmo; Oldervoll, Johannes.
In: European Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2018, p. 341-356.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Collective wage bargaining under strain in northern European construction
T2 - Resisting institutional drift?
AU - Arnholtz, Jens
AU - Meardi, Guglielmo
AU - Oldervoll, Johannes
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet
KW - Constuction sector
KW - Denmark
KW - Germany
KW - Institutional change
KW - labour migration
KW - Norway
KW - self-employment
KW - wage regulation
KW - The Netherlands
KW - UK
U2 - 10.1177/0959680118790816
DO - 10.1177/0959680118790816
M3 - Tidsskriftartikel
VL - 24
SP - 341
EP - 356
JO - European Journal of Industrial Relations
JF - European Journal of Industrial Relations
SN - 0959-6801
IS - 4
ER -
ID: 201524194