Wage formation and the Nordic Model: Nordic economic policy review 2025
Uusitalo, Roope ; Kauhanen, Antti ; Calmfors, Lars ; et al.
Nordic Council of Ministers - Copenhagen
2025
191 p.
wages ; collective agreement ; public sector ; trade union ; economic policy
Wages and wage payment systems
http://dx.doi.org/10.6027/nord2025-001
English
Bibliogr.
"One particular feature distinguishing the Nordic countries from the rest of the industrialised world is the wage-setting system. The Nordic model has traditionally involved strong trade unions and strong employers' associations. Despite its recent decline, union density is still higher in the Nordic countries than anywhere else in the world. Membership of employers' associations is also high. As a result, contracts negotiated between the labour market parties cover the vast majority of the workforce. This issue of the Nordic Economic Policy Review examines the contemporary issues of Nordic labour markets in five articles."
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ISBN (PDF) : 978-92-893-8245-8
Table of contents:
Roope Uusitalo and Antti Kauhanen: Introduction 6
Lars Calmfors: Pattern bargaining as a means to coordinate wages in the
Nordic countries 11
Comment by Steinar Holden 56
Comment by Essi Eerola 60
Antti Kauhanen: How Extension of Collective Agreements Affects Wages 64
Comment by Elin Svarstad 80
Comment by Torbjorn Hållö 86
Astrid Würtz Rasmussen and Mette Ejrnæs: Public Sector Wages 87
Comment by Nils Karlson 116
Comment by Antti Koskela 120
Anders Kjellberg: Changes in union density in the Nordic countries 123
Comment by Petri Böckerman 150
Comment by Mikkel Nørlem Hermansen 153
Harald Dale-Olsen: Technological Development, Market Power and (The Role
Of) Unions 156
Comment by Per Skedinger 186
Comment by Alexander Willen 189
About this publication 192
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