Reports and working papers
WP 2009.11
The EU and supplementary pensions. Instruments for integration and the market for occupational pensions in Europe
By Igor Guardiancich and David Natali
Reliance on private retirement pensions is on the increase both at Member State level, via the spread of quasi-mandatory occupational plans, and at EU level, as a result of initiatives including the IORP Directive. This Working Paper analyses the legislative and market trends that underpin this development, assessing the impact of the global financial crisis, presenting the regulatory improvements required, and delineating the future prospects of the market for supplementary pensions.
WP 2009.10
Public / private mix in pensions in Europe. The role of state, market and social partners in supplementary pensions
By David Natali
This Working Paper sheds light on the multi-dimensional and changing interplay between state, market institutions and social partners in relation to supplementary pension schemes, the importance of which is growing across Europe. The paper offers a lucid analysis of the responsibility shared among these three sets of actors to protect against the risk of old age by developing the provision of privately managed fully-funded schemes.
Report 109. Climate change, the environment and jobs in UNI europa's sectors
This report aims to explore the future of employment in the European service industry from a sustainable development perspective, particularly in an environmental sense of the word. It also aims, based on best practices, to propose avenues for initiating social dialogue in services on environmental issues.
WP 2009.09
Government and trade union responses to the economic crisis in the financial sector
This working paper provides an overview of government and trade union responses to the economic crisis in the financial sector. It provides a comparative presentation of trade union and government responses to the crisis with particular emphasis on the country-specific conditions and practices of collective bargaining and social dialogue. It is based on a survey carried out among financial sector unions affiliated to Uni-Europa.
WP 2009.08
Institutional survival and return: examples from the new pension orthodoxy
By Igor Guardiancich
The paper analyses the instability of paradigmatic pension reforms enacted in Croatia and Hungary in the late 1990s. Both countries' policy makers unilaterally overhauled the respective retirement systems, but the partial, incoherent or fictive institutional replacement steered the new arrangements away from their original designs.
Bericht 103. Streikregeln in der EU27 und darüber hinaus
Ein vergleichender Überblick
WP 2009.07
Wage policy in Austria and the Netherlands under EMU. A change in performance or the continuation of the status-quo?
By Alison Johnston
This paper analyses how wage policy in Austria and the Netherlands was affected by economic and monetary union (EMU). The paper concludes that EMU and the macroeconomic shifts resulting from it have had little influence on wage-setting in Austria and the Netherlands. While wage restraint outcomes did diverge for both countries after the start of EMU, this paper will argue that different wage institutions lead to this divergence. The EMU’s new macroeconomic order did not significantly change either countries microeconomic wage institutions.
WP 2009.06
Limits and potential of the use of vouchers for personal services An evaluation of titres-services in Belgium and the CESU in France
By Anna Maria Sansoni
This working paper presents how 'personal services' i.e. labour supplied within the home or the immediate environment of private individuals have developed in France and Belgium via a voucher system.The paper suggests large numbers of regular jobs have been created despite the fact that shorter working hours are a prevalent feature of these new jobs. In comparison with the actual creation of regular jobs, the quality of the jobs in question seems to be definitely more controversial.
WP 2009.05
A quantum of solace? An assessment of fiscal stimulus packages by EU Member States in response to the economic crisis
By Andrew Watt with the collaboration of Mariya Nikolova
This ETUI Working Paper analyses the fiscal stimulus packages implemented by EU Member States against the background of the on-going economic crisis. Alongside the overall volume of the packages, the study, which is based on a survey of national experts, considers their content and also the involvement – or lack of it – of the social partners and particularly trade unions.
WP 2009.03
Intra-EU labour migration: flows, effects and policy responses
By Béla Galgóczi, Janine Leschke and Andrew Watt
This ETUI working paper provides an overview of the debate on intra-EU labour migration. It outlines the different options open to and taken by member states regarding the issue of freedom of movement within the European Union. It also considers patterns and dimensions of labour migration after EU enlargement in 2004 and the associated effects in both sending and receiving countries and finally the policies adopted by different governments, trade unions and employers’ organisations.
