The Role Of Employer Associations And Labour Unions In The Emu

Author : Gerhard Huemer,Franz Traxler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429767814

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The Role of Employer Associations and Labour Unions in the EMU by Gerhard Huemer,Franz Traxler Pdf

First published in 1999, this volume recognises that in the course of European integration, national economic policy makers lose some effective policy instruments. Contributors to this omnibus volume analyse the 'room for maneuvering' available to national and EU economic and social policies under the conditions of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). They explore the possibilities for European coordination and discuss the tasks of employers’ associations and labour unions on the national and EU level in wage, employment and macroeconomic policies. Section 1 of the book deals with the strengths and weaknesses of the EU in the context of global competition. In spite of national differences, many of the EU member countries share important characteristics. Section 2 addresses the need for and the feasibility of policy coordination in the EMU. With the start of the EMU, wage policy will have to bear the main burden of absorbing asymmetrical economic shocks. The authors from the DIW argue that a wage policy favourable to economic growth, employment and convergence has to be guided by the inflation target set by the European Central Bank (ECB) and by the long-term increase of productivity in individual countries. A precondition for this kind of wage policy is coordination between the main actors of EU economic policy (ECB, EcoFin, social partners).

Author : Gerhard Huemer,Franz Traxler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429767821

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The Role of Employer Associations and Labour Unions in the EMU by Gerhard Huemer,Franz Traxler Pdf

First published in 1999, this volume recognises that in the course of European integration, national economic policy makers lose some effective policy instruments. Contributors to this omnibus volume analyse the 'room for maneuvering' available to national and EU economic and social policies under the conditions of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). They explore the possibilities for European coordination and discuss the tasks of employers’ associations and labour unions on the national and EU level in wage, employment and macroeconomic policies. Section 1 of the book deals with the strengths and weaknesses of the EU in the context of global competition. In spite of national differences, many of the EU member countries share important characteristics. Section 2 addresses the need for and the feasibility of policy coordination in the EMU. With the start of the EMU, wage policy will have to bear the main burden of absorbing asymmetrical economic shocks. The authors from the DIW argue that a wage policy favourable to economic growth, employment and convergence has to be guided by the inflation target set by the European Central Bank (ECB) and by the long-term increase of productivity in individual countries. A precondition for this kind of wage policy is coordination between the main actors of EU economic policy (ECB, EcoFin, social partners).

Author : Andreas Bieler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0719072530

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The Struggle for a Social Europe by Andreas Bieler Pdf

This book provides a detailed investigation and comparison of the trade unions of five EU member states: Austria, Britain, France, Germany and Sweden, and their positions on Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Several European-level trade union organisations are also examined. The focus of this project, however, is not limited to EMU as a case study. Rather, EMU is regarded as a vehicle to assess trade unions' options and possibilities to respond to global structural change in general and to participate in the formation of the future economic-political system of the EU in particular.Two principal hypotheses are investigated. Firstly, that a labour movement's position on EMU depends crucially on its length and degree of exposure to the competitive pressures of globalisation, and secondly, that those trade unions which lose influence within the domestic institutional set-up are most in favour of the establishment of an industrial relations system and social regulation at the European level to counter global pressures. By contrast, unions which continue to enjoy a strong position at the national level, are less likely to engage in European co-operation.

Author : Tiziano Treu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110858709

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Participation in Public Policy-Making by Tiziano Treu Pdf

Author : Tito Boeri,Agar Brugiavini,Lars Calmfors
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191529887

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The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century by Tito Boeri,Agar Brugiavini,Lars Calmfors Pdf

In this book, first-rate international scholars in the field explore the role that unions are likely to play in the changed economic environment of the new century. Questions discussed include: What will unions look like in the years to come? Which kind of interest groups will they represent? How important will be the broader political role of unions? To what extent do unions care about future generations? Part One documents a tendency towards greater decentralization in collective bargaining and declining union membership rates in most European countries. The process of decentralization may only be partly reversed by social pacts of the type that occurred in several EU countries in the run-up to EMU. Yet this type of co-ordination is likely to be increasingly unstable in a context where membership is falling, hence will inevitably require government intervention. Not all governments may wish to intervene in wage setting, however, as there are strong reasons to believe that such intervention could impose wage rigidities in some parts of the economy and lead to non-enforcement in other parts. Moreover, under EMU what matters is ultimately co-ordination of bargaining at the pan-European level rather than simply at the national level. Such higher-level, transnational co-ordination is not likely to occur for a long time to come because of the huge costs that it involves. Some transnational co-ordination may occur within multinational firms, however, as costs are likely to be much lower at this level. Part Two characterizes the intergenerational conflicts present within unions. Unions may be able to better respond to the needs of the unemployed without losing the support of current employees when they become involved in the running of unemployment benefit systems, as has been the case in those countries applying the so-called Ghent system. They may also succeed in making the system more efficient by, for example, contributing to the reduction of moral hazard problems associated with the provision of unemployment insurance. Unions are, however, unlikely to solve the latent conflict between their younger and older members in a context where the population is ageing, since they tend to preserve the status quo when it comes to cutting pension benefits in order to deal with demographic transition. The cost of these dynamic inefficiencies may be accepted by younger generations as long as an intergenerational contract can be enforced whereby unions guarantee that the status quo will be preserved, and are credible in their commitment. Unions could play a key role in this implicit intergenerational pact because they are long-lived agents—-certainly longer-lived than many governments—-but, under present conditions, this pact may be no longer credible.

Author : Whyman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1845420241

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Trade Unions and Emu by Whyman Pdf

Author : Timo Kauppinen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Beskæftigelsespolitik
ISBN : CORNELL:31924082785639

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The Impact of EMU on Industrial Relations in European Union by Timo Kauppinen Pdf

Author : Johannes M Kiess,Martin Seeliger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429581618

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Trade Unions and European Integration by Johannes M Kiess,Martin Seeliger Pdf

Trade Unions and European Integration brings together pessimists and optimists on trade unionism under the contemporary pressures of European integration. The Great Recession has brought new attention to structural problems of the European integration process, specifically monetary integration; holding the potential of disabling any trans-national co-ordination. Other authors argue that the current crisis also poses the chance for mobilization and new impulses for European trade unionism. This is discussed in the volume alongside a variety of topics including bargaining coordination, co-determination, European governance regimes, and European wide mobilization. While the importance of the question of how trade unionism and wage policy can, will, and should develop under the conditions of European integration seems widely shared, the polarization of the debate itself deserves our attention to learn about the opposing arguments and points of view; and to enhance academic discussion as well as consultancy to policy makers. This volume addresses this debate by bringing together the most distinguished voices and searching for common ground as well as new perspectives on European trade unionism and collective bargaining. The chapters of the volume, organised topically, are each accompanied by a comment from a distinguished scholar, highlighting the divisions of the debate. With this innovative approach, this book advances the dialogue between what have become openly opposed camps of optimists and pessimists on the future of European integration, trade unionism and its future chances. Trade Unions and European Integration will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as European Studies, Industrial Relations, Political Economics, Social Movements and Sociology of Work.

Author : Bob Hancké
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199662098

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Unions, Central Banks, and EMU by Bob Hancké Pdf

This book examines the crisis of EMU through the lenses of comparative political economy. It retraces the development of wage-setting systems in the core and peripheral EMU member states, and how these contributed to the increasing divergence between creditor and debtor states in the late 2000s. Starting with the construction of the Deutschmark bloc, through the Maastricht process of the 1990s, and into the first decade of EMU, this book analyzes how labour unions and wage determination systems adjusted in response to monetary integration and, in turn, influenced the shape that monetary union would eventually take. Before the introduction of the Euro, labour unions were disciplined by central banks and governments, after social conflict in the north of the continent and with the use of social pacts in the others. Since controlling inflation had become the main goal of macro-economic policy, national central banks acted as a backstop to keep militant unions and profligate governments under control. Public sector wages thus were subordinated to manufacturing wages, a set-up policed by export sector unions, aided by the central bank. With the introduction of the single currency, the European Central Bank replaced the national central banks and, as a result, their capacity to control labour unions disappeared. The strong links between wages in the public sector unions and wages in the manufacturing export sector weakened dramatically in many countries, wage inflation re-emerged, and the stage was set for the current account divergences at the basis of the crisis of EMU.

Author : J. Visser,Bernard Ebbinghaus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349655113

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Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945 by J. Visser,Bernard Ebbinghaus Pdf

The Societies of Europe is an 8-title series of historical data handbooks and accompanying CD-ROM sets, on the development of Europe from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The series is a product of the Mannheim Centre for Social research, a body dedicated to comparative research on Europe and one of the leading social research institutes in the world. It is a collection of datasets giving a clear and systematic study of long term developments in European society. The data is presented statistically and is clearly comparative. The Societies of Europe is the most comprehensive data series available on Western European social issues. Each book is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing data sets not included in the text enabling users to manipulate the data as wanted. Information is available in different programmes (Excel, SPSS and SAS) and in data structures for analysis, viewing and building time series. This comparative data handbook offers an empirical base to a long-term and comparative understanding of changes and variations in European union movements. It provides information on the context and history of union development, the changes in the structure of post-war unionism until today, the long-term trends in union membership and union density, and the shifts in the cross-sectional composition of union membership. This book and CD-ROM are the result of many years of research by the authors in collaboration with an international research team, and provides an original source for comparative and national studies or individual enquiries. The country and comparative tables offer cross-checked and often newly-calculated statistics on national union organizations and their membership series. The CD-ROM includes selected tables from the handbook and provides additional databases with organizational data and membership series of major national and European union organizations.

Author : Hans-wolfgang Platzer,Berndt Keller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351774390

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Industrial Relations and European Integration by Hans-wolfgang Platzer,Berndt Keller Pdf

This title was first published in 2003.The completion of the Single Market and the launching of the European Monetary Union during the 1990s have been accompanied by processes of socio-economic restructuring and major changes in the structure and forms of governance within the dynamic multi-level EU system. The patterns of reaction and adaptation of national industrial relations systems to these EU - developments are discussed under the heading of "Europeanisation" of national IR-systems. The Maastricht and Amsterdam Treaties have extended - to a certain degree - the scope for legislative and coordinated activities by the EU in the fields of social, labour - market and employment policies. These basic legal and political decisions have created new avenues for the development of transnational industrial relations and the establishment of new arenas for EU - level interaction, including social dialogues between the social partners. .

Author : P. Buchanan,K. Nicholls
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781403937407

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Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies by P. Buchanan,K. Nicholls Pdf

Paul G. Buchanan and Kate Nicholls explore the political and economic fortunes of organised labour in five small open democracies between 1975 and 2000. Of particular interest is the role of labour market institutions, organisational histories, and trade union ideologies in shaping outcomes under conditions of economic liberalisation. The book includes a theoretical and methodological introduction, followed by individual discussions of Australia and Chile, and New Zealand and Uruguay, grouped a cross-regional pairs, and Ireland as an extra-regional and atypical case.

Author : J. Greenwood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230502628

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Inside the EU Business Associations by J. Greenwood Pdf

Whilst actions by business interests are widely acknowledged to be a central mechanism of European integration, the capacity of formal groups which represent them to contribute meaningfully to the integration process is little understood. Based on original research with 50 EU business associations and 150 of their members, this unique book assesses the effectiveness of EU business associations and their potential to bring value to the EU policy making process and to their members, and lends a methodology by which they can be evaluated.

Author : Norbert Götz,Heidi Haggrén
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134045969

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Regional Cooperation and International Organizations by Norbert Götz,Heidi Haggrén Pdf

This book looks beyond the nation state and institutions to examine regional cooperation of the Nordic countries in international organizations.

Author : Christian Welz
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041127440

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The European Social Dialogue Under Articles 138 and 139 of the EC Treaty by Christian Welz Pdf

Describes, analyses, and assesses the European social dialogue from a combined theoretical and normative perspective and applies theoretical strands stemming from industrial relations, EC law, and political theory to an understanding and assessment of the genesis, actors, processes, and outcomes of the European social dialogue through 2007