Torsten Müller

Senior Researcher

Background

Torsten Müller is a senior researcher in the field of collective bargaining, wages and trade unions in Europe. He holds a PhD in Industrial and Business Studies from the University of Warwick in the UK. Before joining the ETUI in September 2012, he did cross-national comparative research at the University of Applied Sciences at Fulda / Germany and the Industrial Relations Research Unit at the University of Warwick. He also worked as a research manager at the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in Dublin / Ireland. He has, furthermore, been expert advisor to European and international organisations such as the OECD, the ILO, Eurofound, the ETUC and various European trade union federations. He is author and co-author of some 100 publications on collective bargaining, minimum wages and trade unions in Europe.

Areas of activity

Collective bargaining, minimum wages, trade unions, job-retention schemes, working time.

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Tomas Berglund, Torsten Müller, Bernhard Ebbinghaus, ...

Unemployment benefits, industrial relations and COVID-19

Editorial Tomas Berglund, Torsten Müller One of the greatest risks affecting workers on today’s labour markets is unemployment. Losing one’s job usually entails not only the loss of one’s main source of income, but also psychological consequences resulting, for example, from the loss of colleagues and satisfying work tasks (Jahoda, 1982). While a... Find out more

Jan Drahokoupil, Torsten Müller

Job retention schemes in Europe

This paper analyses the job retention schemes (JRS) implemented in response to the Covid-19 crisis, showing quantitative trends and differences in terms of expenditure on the schemes and the number of workers involved. The key focus is on a qualitative analysis of the schemes’ key properties. In order to understand the diversity of job retention... Find out more

Torsten Müller, Thorsten Schulten

Ensuring fair short-time work - a European overview

At the end of April 2020, in the EU27 there were more than 42 million applications for support for workers on short-time work or similar schemes, which corresponds to about one quarter of the overall EU workforce. With its proposed SURE programme to provide financial support to national short-time work and similar systems, the European Commission... Find out more

Torsten Müller, Thorsten Schulten

The European minimum wage on the doorstep

The European Commission published a consultation document with a view to take legislative action to establish fair minimum wages in Europe. In this policy brief, the researchers argue for a pragmatic approach of taking the ‘in-work-poverty-wage’ threshold of 60 per cent of the national full-time gross median wage as the reference to assess the... Find out more

Department

Research

Unit

Economic, Employment and Social Policies

Working language(s)

German, English