Industrial relations and adjustments to the crisis: A comparative micro‐statistical analysis of France and Great Britain
Amossé, Thomas ; Askenazy, Philippe ; Chevalier, Martin ; Erhel, Christine ; Petit, Héloïse ; Rebérioux, Antoine
2019
158
3
September
463-487
labour relations ; economic recession ; wage restraint
Labour relations
https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12151
English
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"In this comparative study, the authors analyse the relationships between industrial relations and workforce or wage adjustments in response to the 2007–08 crisis, using two highly comparable establishment‐level surveys conducted in Great Britain (WERS) and France (REPONSE) in 2010–12. Notwithstanding contextual differences in the countries' productive systems and the timing and impact of the crisis, the relationships between industrial relations and adjustment strategies appear to have been similar (trade union presence not preventing adjustments). Differences in industrial relations are therefore not found to provide an explanation for the different modes of adjustment observed at the macroeconomic level."
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