National and sectoral influences on wage determination in Central and Eastern Europe
Stockhammer, Engelbert and Onaran, Özlem (2009) National and sectoral influences on wage determination in Central and Eastern Europe. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 15 (3). pp. 317-338. ISSN 0959-6801 (Print), 1461-7129 (Online) (doi:10.1177/0959680109339417)Full text not available from this repository.
The article investigates wage determination in Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Lithuania. In particular, what is the relative influence of national and sectoral factors? While industrial relations in these countries are still in the process of change, different national patterns have emerged; what is their significance for wage determination? The literature on Western economies is unanimous that coordination of wage bargaining reduces wage dispersion, but disagrees on its effects on unemployment and inflation. The article provides a panel analysis for manufacturing sectors, examining average wages in the total economy and sectoral productivity. The openness of the economy, capital intensity and skill are also discussed. The results are compared with the recent index of the collective bargaining coordination by Visser and with cross-country data on union density.
|Additional Information:|| Published online: 3 September 2009.  Published in print: September 2009.  Published as: European Journal of Industrial Relations, (2009), Vol. 15, (3), pp. 317-338.|
|Uncontrolled Keywords:||Central and Eastern Europe, collective bargaining, FDI wage dispersion, industrial relations, wage determination|
|Subjects:||H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory|
|School / Department / Research Groups:||School of Business|
School of Business > Work & Employment Research Unit
|Last Modified:||11 Dec 2013 13:01|
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