Documents Nicolitsas, Daphne 4 results

"Social dialogue – encompassing negotiation, consultations and information between governments, employers and workers at various levels – is a fundamental part of the European Union's social model and is also enshrined in the European Pillar of Social Rights. Its role is central to managing economic transitions, labour market changes and social resilience. Eurofound's comparative research across Member States demonstrates that countries with well-functioning social dialogue frameworks are better positioned to respond to crises, promote inclusive growth and implement reforms effectively. This background paper presents Eurofound's conceptual and measurement framework to capture ‘key dimensions' of industrial relations in the Member States. It discusses social dialogue structures and social partner involvement in national policymaking, also in the context of the green and digital transition."

"This paper documents the existence and main patterns of inter-industry wage differentials across a large number of industries for 8 EU countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain) at two points in time (in general 1995 and 2002) and explores possible explanations for these patterns. The analysis uses the European Structure of Earnings Survey (SES), an internationally harmonised matched employer-employee dataset, to estimate inter-industry wage differentials conditional on a rich set of employee, employer and job characteristics. After investigating the possibility that unobservable employee characteristics lie behind the conditional wage differentials, a hypothesis which cannot be accepted, the paper investigates the role of institutional, industry structure and industry performance characteristics in explaining inter-industry wage differentials. The results suggest that inter-industry wage differentials are consistent with rent sharing mechanisms and that rent sharing is more likely in industries with firm-level collective agreements and with higher collective agreement coverage."