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Macroeconomic Constraints, Social Learning and Pay Bargaining in Europe

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This paper argues that European integration has constrained the discretion of industrial relations actors. The result has been not the widely predicted institutional fragmentation of collective bargaining, but a change in the functioning of these systems. At the same time, widespread ‘social dumping’ on the part of firms and member states has not materialized. The paper argues that the ‘race to the bottom’ thesis gives insufficient weight to the socialization mechanisms attached to the European integration process. Thus macroeconomic constraints and social learning processes are co‐mingling with one another in European industrial relations.

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  • Paul Teague, 2000. "Macroeconomic Constraints, Social Learning and Pay Bargaining in Europe," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 38(3), pages 429-452, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:brjirl:v:38:y:2000:i:3:p:429-452
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-8543.00172
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    1. Jesús Ferreiro & Carmen Gómez, 2008. "Is Wages Policy on the Agenda of Trade Unions Again? Voluntary Wage Moderation in Spain," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 29(1), pages 64-95, February.
    2. Wolfgang Pollan, 2004. "Austrian Exceptionalism. Labour Market Institutions and Wage Disparity," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 25130.
    3. Wolfgang Pollan, 2004. "Pattern Bargaining and Wage Leadership in Austria," Austrian Economic Quarterly, WIFO, vol. 9(2), pages 88-101, June.

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