Abstract
This article investigates the development of collective wage bargaining systems in manufacturing in five countries: Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway and Sweden. We illustrate the responses of collective actors to two key challenges: first, increased cross-country competition between Northern European companies operating within the same high-value/high-cost segment of the market; second, the competitive pressures resulting from increased east-north integration. Our analytical framework sets out different forms and outcomes of institutional change, with a focus on how the responses of collective actors to these two challenges shaped the development of wage bargaining systems.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | European Journal of Industrial Relations |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Pages (from-to) | 357-372 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISSN | 0959-6801 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2018 |
Funding
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The articles in this special issue form part of a module organized by Fafo within the 'Euro-strain'-project headed by ESOP, University of Oslo, and have benefitted from funding from the 'Europe in Transition' programme of Norges Forskningsrad (The Research Council of Norway).
Keywords
- Collective bargaining
- Denmark
- employers' organizations
- Finland
- Germany
- institutional change
- international competition
- manufacturing
- Norway
- Sweden
- GERMANY
- DANISH
- EUROPE
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