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Transnational labour markets and national wage setting systems in the EU
Author(s) -
Bosch Gerhard,
Weinkopf Claudia
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/irj.12006
Subject(s) - competition (biology) , wage , collective bargaining , economic justice , labour economics , economics , market regulation , political science , business , market economy , ecology , neoclassical economics , biology
The article analyses the impact of E uropean regulations of posting on different national wage systems. The article shows that the impact varied across the countries and has been filtered by the national institutions regulating the labour market. In the voluntarist wage setting systems of G ermany and even S weden, they have been a major factor bringing wages back into competition. The ability of national actors to act has been considerably curtailed by the European Court of Justice (EUJ), which has placed free competition above the basic rights of autonomous collective bargaining. Because of the divergent interests of M ember S tates, this weakening of national actors cannot be compensated for by transnational agreements. This ‘negative integration’ brings with it a serious risk that the inclusiveness of E uropean wage systems will be eroded by a series of cumulative effects.