Documents sectoral social dialogue 224 results

"Alors que le dialogue social transnational se développe rapidement au niveau de l'entreprise et au niveau sectoriel, peu de recherches ont été conduites sur les liens qui peuvent exister entre ces deux niveaux. Cet article présente les principaux résultats d'une étude sur les interactions entre les différents niveaux de dialogue social transnational, en se concentrant sur celles qui relient les accords transnationaux d'entreprise et le dialogue social sectoriel européen. Il montre que de nombreux liens peuvent être observés entre ces niveaux de dialogue social transnational, qu'il s'agisse des acteurs impliqués, des thématiques abordées ou des procédures de mise en œuvre mobilisées. Certes, on est loin d'une articulation systématique et formalisée telle qu'elle existe dans certains systèmes nationaux, mais les liens que l'on peut observer indiquent des interdépendances croissantes qui peuvent contribuer à la construction progressive d'un système de relations professionnelles transnationales."

"This paper introduces collective bargaining at the firm and at the sector level into the heterogeneous firm model of Melitz and Ottaviano (Melitz, M. J., Ottaviano, G. I. P., 2008. Market size, trade, and productivity. Review of Economic Studies 75 (1), 295-316). It then analyses how the two bargaining regimes change aggregate industry productivity and firm performance relative to a competitive labour market. While sector-level bargaining forces the least productive firms to exit and thus increases average productivity relative to the competitive benchmark, firm-level bargaining allows less productive firms to stay in the market and thus reduces average productivity. Sector-level bargaining also results in higher average output and profit levels than either firm-level bargaining or a competitive labour market. The paper also shows that the choice between sector- and firm-level bargaining can involve a trade-off between product variety and product prices: Not only the average price level but also product variety tends to be lower under sector-level bargaining than under firm-level bargaining."

"This article examines the preconditions for successful implementation of multi‐employer collective bargaining in countries lacking supportive institutions. It presents cases from the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia, three liberal market economies where multi‐employer bargaining has either survived in some sectors or where there have been recent attempts to strengthen it. The findings highlight the importance of both “regulatory” institutions (e.g. laws) and “cognitive” institutions (e.g. social norms) to ensure that, first, employment relations actors have the power and resources to support multi‐employer bargaining in practice and, second, workers and employers accept this form of wage‐setting as legitimate."