Minimum Wage Regimes
Statutory Regulation, Collective Bargaining and Adequate Levels
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Minimum Wage Regimes
Statutory Regulation, Collective Bargaining and Adequate Levels
About this book
This book goes beyond traditional minimum wage research to investigate the interplay between different country and sectoral institutional settings and actors' strategies in the field of minimum wage policies.
It asks which strategies and motives, namely free collective bargaining, fair pay and/or minimum income protection, are emphasised by social actors with respect to the regulation and adaptation of (statutory) minimum wages. Taking an actor-centered institutionalist approach, and employing cross-country comparative studies, sector studies and single country accounts of change, the book relates institutional and labour market settings, actors' strategies and power resources with policy and practice outcomes. Looking at the key pay equity indicators of low wage development and women's over-representation among the low paid, it illuminates our understandings about the importance of historical junctures, specific constellations of social actors, and sector- and country-specific actor strategies. Finally, it underlines the important role of social dialogue in shaping an effective minimum wage policy.
This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and policy-makers and practitioners in industrial relations, international human resource management, labour studies, labour market policy, inequality studies, trade union studies, European politics and political economy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Minimum wage regimes in Europe and selected developing countries
- 2 Minimum wages and the multiple functions of wages
- PART I Actors’ strategies influencing collective bargaining and minimum wage regulations at national level in European countries
- PART II The combined effects of minimum wages and collective bargaining in different sectors
- PART III The minimum wage beyond Europe: An accomplishment or an alternative to collective bargaining?
- PART IV Conclusion: Lessons for theory and practice
- Index