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Wage bargaining under the new European Economic Governance. Alternative strategies for inclusive growth KU Leuven
Within the framework of the new European economic governance, neoliberal views on wages have further increased in prominence and have steered various reforms of collective bargaining rules and practices. As the crisis in Europe came to be largely interpreted as a crisis of competitiveness, wages were seen as the core adjustment variable for ‘internal devaluation’, the claim being that competitiveness could be restored through a reduction of ...
Better together : what trade unionists think of multi-employer bargaining in Europe Universiteit Gent
UNI europa affiliates largely support the strengthening of multi-employer collective bargaining. They see mainly gains in terms of higher wages, a better position of the workers. In some contexts, multi-employer bargaining is under pressure as it is more difficult to get to agreements, as the agreements are more often only framework agreements and as some actors question the need for a multi-employer agreement. Employers’ unwillingness is seen ...
Flexibility and security within European labor markets: the role of local bargaining and the different ‘trade-offs’ within multinationals' subsidiaries in Belgium, Britain and Germany KU Leuven
© The Author(s) 2016. In this comparative qualitative study, the authors examine how local bargaining shapes the trade-off between labor flexibility and employment security policies in four multinational subsidiaries in Belgium, Britain, and Germany. They also consider whether and how union power to shape flexibility and security policies is affected by national institutions, the way that multinationals organize their subsidiaries, and local ...
Beyond methodological nationalism in explanations of gender equality: The impact of EU policies on gender provisions in national collective agreements in Belgium (1957–2020) Universiteit Hasselt KU Leuven
Based on an analysis of gender equality provisions in national collective agreements, this article investigates the influence of European Union (EU) gender and macro-economic policy on gender equality outcomes in Belgium since the signature of the Treaty of Rome in 1957. We show that, over time, EU gender equality policies have led to the adoption of provisions promoting formal gender equality and the integration of women in the labour market. ...
An Afriat Theorem for the collective model of household consumption KU Leuven
We study the steady state of a market with incoming cohorts of buyers and sellers who are matched pairwise and bargain under private information. A friction parameter is τ, the length of the time period until the next meeting. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the convergence of mechanism outcomes to perfect competition at the linear rate in τ, which is shown to be the fastest possible among all bargaining mechanisms. The ...
“Acting out” institutions: A cross-sector analysis of local unions' response and practices of resistance to collective redundancy in Belgium KU Leuven
Purpose: Restructuring has assumed a significant importance across Europe due to the growing pressures of internationalisation affecting transnational capital. By drawing from two case-studies in the public health service and the manufacturing sector in Belgium, this paper aims to present evidence of the local unions' capacity to strategically use the industrial relations institutional framework, which foresees the rights of employee ...
Mediation and Conciliation in Collective Labor Conflicts in South Africa Vlerick Business School
In South Africa, strikes resulting from failed collective bargaining processes are often protracted and regularly involve recourse by striking workers to unlawful means of pursuing their objectives (including non-compliance with agreed or statutory strike procedures, damage to property and/or physical violence against so-called ‘scabs’, i.e., workers who continuing working during the strike). The generally very effective dispute resolution ...
Nonparametric analysis of household labor supply: Goodness-of-fit and power of the unitary and the collective model KU Leuven
We compare the empirical performance of the unitary and the collective approach to modelling observed labour supply behaviour. Deviating from the mainstream literature, we conduct a nonparametric analysis, which avoids the distortive impact of an erroneously specified functional form for the preferences and/or the intrahousehold bargaining process. Our analysis specifically focuses on the goodness-of-fit of the two behavioural models. To ...
Collective labour rights for self-employed workers: A human rights-based approach of platform work KU Leuven
My research will focus on the human rights protection of self-employed workers, and specially on workers engaged in the so-called platform economy. This is because they often find themselves in the grey zone between employment and self-employment, an issue that it is certainly not novel. The widespread use of freelance jobs entails the risk of leaving such workers outside the scope of protection of fundamental human rights. Indeed, for instance, ...