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Promoting or Preventing Reforms?

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  • Menno Fenger

    (Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherland)

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In the dominant perspective on trade unions, stronger trade unions are supposed to lead to higher wages and less extensive welfare reforms. This article focuses on the role of trade unions in the processes of welfare reform in Central and Eastern European countries in the last decade, and aims to assess the extent to which this role is comparable to that of trade unions in Western countries. The article analyses key characteristics of trade unions' roles and positions in Bulgaria, Croatia, Moldova, Romania, Poland and Slovenia. These characteristics are related to the social policy reforms and wage developments in these countries, in order to analyse if the dominant perspective holds true also for Central and Eastern European countries.

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  • Menno Fenger, 2006. "Promoting or Preventing Reforms?," Society and Economy, Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary, vol. 28(1), pages 1-26, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:aka:soceco:v:28:y:2006:i:1:p:1-26
    Note: This article has benefited greatly from the author’s stay at the Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University. The author wishes to thank everyone at CES for their hospitality and inspiration.
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    1. Katarína LukÃ¡Ä ová & Lucia KovÃ¡Ä ová & Martin Kahanec, 2022. "Industrial relations and unemployment benefit schemes in the Visegrad countries during the COVID-19 pandemic," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 28(2), pages 229-246, May.

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