Social Pacts In Europe

Author : Sabina Avdagic,Martin Rhodes,Jelle Visser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191618277

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Social Pacts in Europe by Sabina Avdagic,Martin Rhodes,Jelle Visser Pdf

The result of a four-year long comparative research study centered at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and financed by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme, Social Pacts in Europe presents the first full-length theoretical and comparative empirical study of new social pacts in Europe. Its aim is to bring the level of sophistication achieved in an earlier literature on neo-corporatism to the more contemporary phenomenon of 'social pacting'. The book brings a wide range of complementary theories to bear on the emergence, evolution and institutionalization of pacts, compares systematically a wide range of cases across Europe, and provides in-depth studies of Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and Slovenia. The book contributes to the scholarly debate on economic adjustment and institutional change in European capitalism by focusing on three inter-related questions: (i) what explains national variation in reliance on social pacts; (ii) what determines the outcomes of individual pact negotiations; and (iii) under what conditions are pacts repeated and become regular features of socio-economic governance? The book's theoretical innovations include a novel application of fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fs/QCA) to help explain national differences in social pact adoption; the application of a game theoretic approach to explain social pact emergence; and a reinterpretation of traditional neo-corporatist and new institutionalist theory to help understand social pact consolidation and institutionalization.

Author : Giuseppe Fajertag,Philippe Pochet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029134363

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Social Pacts in Europe by Giuseppe Fajertag,Philippe Pochet Pdf

Comprises 12 papers which analyse national experiences and the theoretical implications of the conclusion of social pacts in the European Union in the 1990s.

Author : Giuseppe Fajertag
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2930143657

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Social Pacts in Europe by Giuseppe Fajertag Pdf

Author : Kerstin Hamann,John Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136949869

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Parties, Elections, and Policy Reforms in Western Europe by Kerstin Hamann,John Kelly Pdf

Social pacts – policy agreements between governments, labor unions and sometimes employer organizations – began to emerge in many countries in the 1980s. The most common explanations for social pacts tend to focus on economic factors, influenced by industrial relations institutions such as highly coordinated collective bargaining. This book presents, and tests, an alternative and complementary explanation highlighting the electoral calculations made by political parties in choosing pacts. Using a dataset covering 16 European countries for the years 1980-2006, as well as eight in-depth country case studies, the authors argue that governments’ choice of social pacts or legislation is less influenced by economic problems, but is strongly influenced by electoral competition. Social pacts will be attractive when party leaders perceive them to be helpful in reducing the potential electoral costs of economic adjustment and wage restraint policies. Alternatively, parties may forgo negotiations with social partners and seek to impose such policies unilaterally if they believe that approach will yield electoral gain or minimize electoral costs. By combining the separate literatures on political economy and party politics, the book sheds new light on the dynamics of social pacts in Western Europe. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, economics, political economy, European Studies and comparative politics.

Author : Anke Hassel
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789053569191

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Wage Setting, Social Pacts and the Euro by Anke Hassel Pdf

Politicians, economists, and social theorists tend to agree that globalization and neo-liberal economic policy have contributed to the decline of the social compacts underlying traditional European welfare states. Recently, however, social pacts have demonstrated an impressive resurgence, as governments across Europe facing necessary economic policy adjustments have chosen to view trade unions as vital negotiating partners rather than adversaries. Wage Setting, Social Pacts, and the Euro offers a theoretical understanding of the forces that have led to this new understanding, and of the challenges that increasing monetary integration will continue to pose.

Author : Nicola Acocella,Riccardo Leoni
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783790819236

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Social Pacts, Employment and Growth by Nicola Acocella,Riccardo Leoni Pdf

In this book leading European economists examine the current status of social pacts and their future. Particular focus is placed on the role of trade unions, and the positive role they can play for economic and social stability by agreeing to set wages on the basis of a target rate of inflation. As the European Union expands and social change accelerates, this insightful book will be of interest to all concerned with social and economic developments across Europe.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Full employment policies
ISBN : CORNELL:31924071652345

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Social Pacts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bernard Casey,Michael Gold
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1782543430

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Social Partnership and Economic Performance by Bernard Casey,Michael Gold Pdf

There has been a marked trend towards decentralisation of labour market regulation in many European countries. This book assesses the impact of social partnership and social protection on the macroeconomic performance of member states of the EU.

Author : Georg Menz,Amandine Crespy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137473400

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Social Policy and the Eurocrisis by Georg Menz,Amandine Crespy Pdf

In this study, an international and multidisciplinary team take stock of the promise and shortfalls of 'Social Europe' today, examining the response to the Eurocrisis, the past decade of social policy in the image of the Lisbon Agenda, and the politics that derailed a more Delorsian Europe from ever emerging.

Author : Stefan Berger,Hugh Compston
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781782389842

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Policy Concertation and Social Partnership in Western Europe by Stefan Berger,Hugh Compston Pdf

Policy concertation - the determination of public policy by means of agreements struck between governments, employers and trade unions - continues to thrive in Western Europe despite the impact of liberalizing trends that were expected to lead to its demise. This volume brings together a team of 23 experts with the aim to undertake paired historical and political studies of policy concertation in ten West European countries, which were then subjected to systematic comparative analysis. It shows that overall the incidence of broad policy concertation in Western Europe can be explained by the changing configurations of just three variables.

Author : Yves Barou
Publisher :
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782917088258

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The European social model by Yves Barou Pdf

The crisis has brought social issues back to the center of European debates: the European social model is once again a central stake. But what model are we talking about? The model that encourages and structures social dialogue, Europe ’s true trademark, which has an impact every day, this social dialogue that outlines an innovative, original, effective dialogue, which may be a real asset for globalization. The model that dominates over the very view of the company, which will have to be more human if it is to absorb all the blows it is taking. This collective book was written by practitioners in the field of social issues, HR managers, union members, researchers, European Commission members, or even people involved in social rating or training. This is a multi-author book written by Europeans, driven by their national traditions and who currently face similar challenges – the transfer of knowledge in a context of demographic ageing, the inevitable rise in youth unemployment as well as awareness as regards corporate social responsibility in the company’s ecosystem. It shows us that social Europe is buying built on a day-by-day basis, anticipating and shaping the accession of a new social pact, and that Europe is thus affirming its identity compared with the American or Chinese models.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Presses univ. de Louvain
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 2930344040

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Employment : the Focus of Collective Bargaining in Europe by Anonim Pdf

The insertion in June 1997 of a Title on employment in the Treaty on European Union has accelerated the drafting of European policy in this field over the last few years. This European dynamic has had widespread impact on the themes and mechanisms that characterise national systems of industrial relations. On the one hand, employment is increasingly governed by rules negotiated between the social partners and, depending on the circumstances, the State. This phenomenon of joint labour market regulation is confirmed by a marked desire on the part of employers' associations and trade unions to integrate employment-related issues into their actions and negotiations. On the other hand, the incorporation of employment-related themes by employers’ associations and trade unions, usually in concertation with government policies, is related with greater coordination of bargaining and concertation mechanisms established at European level and within each Member State. Today, the various national realities appear to be directed to various degrees by these two general tendencies. These phenomena active in the field of employment bargaining must therefore be analysed on three counts: the first focuses on the development of the coordination mechanisms that structure these negotiations, and more specifically raises the issue of co-responsibility for the labour market; the second deals with the strict content of employment bargaining, and examines the question of negotiated flexibility of working conditions and employment; the third addresses the autonomy of collective bargaining in Europe. This analysis informs our research, which is in turn intimately linked to recent changes taking place in national systems of industrial relations.

Author : Violaine Delteil,Vassil Nikolaev Kirov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317402206

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Labour and Social Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe by Violaine Delteil,Vassil Nikolaev Kirov Pdf

Over a quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall and 10 years after their accession to the European Union (EU), Central and Eastern Europe Countries (CEECs) still show marked differences with the rest of Europe in the fields of labour, work and industrial relations. This book presents a detailed and original analysis of labour and social transformations in the CEECs. By examining a wide range of countries in Central Europe, Labour and Social Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe offers a comprehensive and contrasting view of labour developments in Central and Eastern Europe. Chapters explore three related issues. The first deals with the understanding of the complex process of Europeanization applied in the sphere of labour, employment and industrial relations. The second issue refers to the attempt to link the Europeanization approach with an analysis mobilizing the theoretical concept of "dependent capitalism(s)". The third issue refers to the cumulative trends of labour weakening and labour awakening that has emerged, in particular in the aftermath of the crisis beginning in 2007-2008. This book will be of interest to academics, policy makers and stakeholders at European and national level in the EU member states.

Author : European Committee of Social Rights,Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287155321

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European Social Charter by European Committee of Social Rights,Council of Europe Pdf

Author : Bernadette Clasquin
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9052012148

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Wage and Welfare by Bernadette Clasquin Pdf

This book presents an original multidisciplinary conceptual framework for the analysis of the processes of construction/transformation of workers' social rights. The framework was developed by taking an analysis of employment and social protection in the Latin European countries as starting-point, and thus offers an innovative alternative to the dominant approaches. It takes account of the institutional forms determining employees' resource flows and associated rights, and introduces a new analytical category of «resource regimes». Four spheres are identified for the observation of recent resource regime changes: employment systems, public policy frameworks, social hierarchies and industrial relations systems. The various chapters explore how each of these spheres participates in the institution of social rights over resources, and identify key vehicles of change such as transformations in forms of employment, labour market policies, pension reforms, the swing to a logic of competencies, social pacts, and the processes involved in the construction of the European Union. The book brings to the fore the dynamic relation between employment, wages and social rights and aims to contribute to current debates on social protection reforms and employment policies implemented at both national and European levels.