Government employers in Sweden, Denmark and Norway: The use of power to control wage and employment conditions

Nana Wesley Hansen; Åsmund Arup Seip

doi:10.1177/0959680117708371

Government employers in Sweden, Denmark and Norway: The use of power to control wage and employment conditions

Bidragets oversatte titel: Staten som arbejdsgiver i Sverige, Danmark og Norge og dens magt til at kontrollere løn og arbejdsvilkår.

Nana Wesley Hansen, Åsmund Arup Seip

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How do government employers exercise power in highly voluntarist bargaining models? In this article, we analyse the potential power of public employers in Sweden, Denmark and Norway and examine how they use this potential. We call attention to three areas in which government employers exercise power: direct political intervention, attempts to decentralize wage bargaining and control of wage movements. We argue that government employers in the three countries have similar institutional capacities for power, but their ways of exercising power vary according to political norms and practice.

Bidragets oversatte titel	Staten som arbejdsgiver i Sverige, Danmark og Norge og dens magt til at kontrollere løn og arbejdsvilkår.
Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	European Journal of Industrial Relations
Vol/bind	24
Udgave nummer	1
Sider (fra-til)	73-89
Antal sider	17
ISSN	0959-6801
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680117708371
Status	Udgivet - 1 mar. 2018

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