Self-regulation and the state in industrial relations in Southern Europe: Back to the future?

Romo, Óscar Molina

doi:10.1177/0959680113516404

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“…This makes this exploration even more relevant and timely, since some Southern European countries -such as Greece and Portugal-were obliged to abruptly deregulate their ER systems to improve competitiveness (Kornelakis and Voskeritsian, 2014;Molina, 2014). The main aims of the bailout packages were to 'expose workers to the full force of global labour market competition, requiring…”

Section: European Models Of Capitalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

How can competitiveness be achieved in post-crisis Europe: deregulating employment relations or enhancing high performance work practices?

Kornelakis

Veliziotis

Voskeritsian

2016

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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Abstract:The recent Eurozone crisis has reinvigorated neoliberal policies and brought to the fore an academic and policy debate over the deregulation of employment relations' institutions 'in the name of competitiveness'. In the context of this debate, we ask the following question: have firms with employment relations institutions been less able to improve productivity during the crisis? We consider this question by examining data from the European Company Survey. We also look into different models of capitalism to gauge whether there are context-specific institutional effects that may mediate firm-level outcomes. Contrary to the dominant neoliberal discourse, we do not find any strong evidence that employment relations institutions are negatively associated with productivity increases. Instead, we find that certain high performance work practices are positively and significantly associated with productivity increases across EU-15 and in particular institutional contexts.Taken together these results challenge the neoliberal 'low road' policies that are focused on dismantling employment relations institutions and suggest shifting the attention towards context-sensitive 'high road' policies and practices.

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Section: European Models Of Capitalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

How can competitiveness be achieved in post-crisis Europe: deregulating employment relations or enhancing high performance work practices?

Kornelakis

Veliziotis

Voskeritsian

2016

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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“…The premise behind this is that it will eliminate "obstacles" to hiring (Molina, 2014). The truth is that the transformations in policies in this area introduced in Greece, Portugal and Spain were trends that could already be observed before the crisis (Degryse et al, 2013;Stoleroff, 2013).…”

Section: Collective Bargainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Crisis y trabajo. Un análisis de las políticas laborales de emergencia en Portugal, España y Grecia

Barroso¹

2024

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ResumenEn este artículo se comparan las principales reformas introducidas en los mercados laborales portugués, español y griego desde el inicio de la crisis. Recurriendo a un análisis documental y estadístico, se consideran las semejantes características institucionales, históricas y geográficas de estos países, así como sus particularidades. Los resultados indican que las políticas de emergencia tienden a parecerse y a incidir sobre los despidos, los contratos de trabajo, la jornada laboral, los salarios, la negociación colectiva y las condiciones de trabajo en el sector público. Sin embargo, las diferencias estructurales entre estos países en el periodo pre-crisis y los diferentes efectos que la crisis tuvo en cada uno de ellos, ayudan a comprender eventuales diferencias de resultados, contribuyendo al cuestionamiento de la homogeneidad interna del modelo mediterráneo. Key words AbstractIn this article, we analyse the main reforms introduced in the Portuguese, Spanish and Greek labour-markets since the beginning of the crisis. Based in a documental and statistical analysis, the study takes in consideration the similar institutional, historical and geographic characteristics of these countries, but also their particularities. Results show that the emergency policies tend to resemble and to concentrate on dismissals, contracts, working time, salaries, collective bargaining and working conditions in the public sector. Nonetheless, the pre-crisis structural variations between these countries, together with the different effects that the crisis had in each one of them, help to understand possible differences in terms of results, giving a new contribution to the questioning of the internal homogeneity of the Mediterranean model. Barroso, Margarida Martins (2017). «Crisis y trabajo. Un análisis de las políticas laborales de emergencia en Portugal, España y Grecia». Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Crisis y trabajo. Un análisis de las políticas laborales de emergencia en Portugal, España y Grecia Cómo citar IntroduccIónEs ampliamente reconocido que los motivos que originaron la crisis financiera y económi-ca más reciente están relacionados con la desregulación y con las irregularidades del sistema financiero global (Freeman, 2010;Lallement, 2011;Krugman, 2012;Stiglitz, 2009). En el caso europeo, la globalización de los mercados y la integración monetaria intensificaron sus efectos llegando a ponerse en cuestión la continuidad de la moneda única.Considerada como la primera gran crisis de la era de la globalización, la crisis iniciada en los años 2007/2008 ha transformado significativamente el contexto económico mundial, generando una diversidad de retos en los sistemas económicos y financieros, e impactando de forma abrupta en los mercados de trabajo. De hecho, la recesión y el desempleo han surgido como consecuencias directas de la crisis y, si es verdad que para enfrentarlos algunos países implementaron medidas de estímulo al crecimiento, también es cierto que, sobre todo a partir de 2010, empezaro...

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“…Moreover, the prevention of unfair dismissal, the right to work in an equitable working condition, collective bargaining, and the right for collective action, information, and consultation rights of employees and their representatives must be protected in supranational legal basis (i.e., the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; A. Aliu, 2012;Marginson & Sisson, 2006;Molina, 2014;Weiss, 2010).…”

Section: Ir-hrm Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Policy Influences on Academia in the European Union

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The aim of this research is to examine the public policy influences on academic investigations that contain a substantial convergence among human resource management-industrial relations and corporate social responsibility-stakeholder approach by means of using bibliometric and content analyses of relevant publications in the Scopus and ScienceDirect databases. Totally, 160 publications were subject to bibliometric, cluster, and summative content analyses. In this context, this study claims that public policy in the EU influences academic investigations and scholars. The investigation draws attention to the importance of active participation of different public institutions and key stakeholders (e.g., trade unions, works councils, academic associations) that prepare a basis for collaboration, solidarity, and communication for strengthening EU social model, social dialogue, collective bargaining, and the protection of social rights. The research findings illuminate the fact that European public policies have significant effects on shaping and encouraging investigations that are considered within the scope of IR-HRM and CSR-SA. One of the most crucial recommendations of this study is that the investigations which are out of this framework can be considered quite idealistic. Therefore, researchers may attempt to publish more scientific investigations in frame of IR-HRM and CSR-SA to enhance the comprehensiveness and depth of these two clusters.

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Self-regulation and the state in industrial relations in Southern Europe: Back to the future?

Cited by 45 publications

References 17 publications

How can competitiveness be achieved in post-crisis Europe: deregulating employment relations or enhancing high performance work practices?

How can competitiveness be achieved in post-crisis Europe: deregulating employment relations or enhancing high performance work practices?

Crisis y trabajo. Un análisis de las políticas laborales de emergencia en Portugal, España y Grecia

Public Policy Influences on Academia in the European Union

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