Collective wage regulation in northern Europe under strain: Multiple drivers of change and differing responses

Jon Erik Dølvik; Paul Marginson; Kristin Alsos; Jens Arnholtz; Guglielmo Meardi; Torsten Müller; Sissel Trygstad

doi:10.1177/0143831X18790815

Collective wage regulation in northern Europe under strain: Multiple drivers of change and differing responses

Jon Erik Dølvik, Paul Marginson, Kristin Alsos, Jens Arnholtz, Guglielmo Meardi, Torsten Müller, Sissel Trygstad

Employment Relations Research Centre

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Abstract

There has been much recent attention to the upheavals, often externally induced, in collective bargaining and labour market regulation in southern European countries. In this article, we introduce a set of studies of changes, typically employer-driven, in collective wage regulation in northern Europe. We discuss possible drivers of change: contagion from southern Europe, regime competition among the northern countries themselves and/or destabilizing effects of east–north integration, driven by free movement. These drivers interact with internal change dynamics spurring diverging actor responses and institutional outcomes. We outline the common research design, review salient features of wage regulation in six countries, and differences in institutions, production, markets and factor mobility in four sectors. We briefly review findings from the other articles.

Original language	Danish
Journal	European Journal of Industrial Relations
Volume	24
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	321-339
ISSN	0959-6801
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X18790815
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2018

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