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  • Social dialogue and social policies
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  • Books
  • Working Papers

Publication year

  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015

Authors (etui)

  • Bernaciak Magdalena
  • Drahokoupil Jan
  • Piasna Agnieszka
  • Galgóczi Béla
  • Myant Martin
  • Theodoropoulou Sotiria

Authors (externals)

  • Agostini Chiara
  • Andrijasevic Rutvica
  • Bir Juliane
  • Botsch Andreas
  • Collignon Stefan
  • Esposito Piero
  • Kowalsky Wolfgang
  • Kuhlmann Reinhard
  • Lisi Valentina
  • Méaulle Matthieu
  • Natali David
  • Sabato Sebastiano
  • Sacchetto Davi
  • Scherrer Peter
  • Watt Andrew

Keywords

  • Digitalisation
  • Economic policy
  • Employment
  • EU legislation
  • Globalisation
  • Industrial relations
  • Multinational corporations
  • Trade unions
  • Wages
  • Work organisation

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  • Economic policy
  • Employment
  • EU legislation
  • Industrial relations
  • Relocation
  • Trade unions
  • Wages
  • Workers participation
  • Working conditions
  • Work organisation
Béla Galgóczi, Jan Drahokoupil

Condemned to be left behind? Can Central and Eastern Europe emerge from its low-wage model?

This book focuses on the economic factors which have impacted on the low-wage economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), over the past twenty years. In this period CEE economies were mostly driven by low-wage based foreign direct investment (FDI). Earlier publications made the case that the... Find out more

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Jan Drahokoupil

Chinese investment in Europe: corporate strategies and labour relations

China’s global outward foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased substantially over the last decade, with Europe as a key destination. The upsurge in Chinese outward FDI indicates a rebalancing of global political-economic relations, with China and its companies acquiring new roles and gaining... Find out more

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Rutvica Andrijasevic, Jan Drahokoupil, Davi Sacchetto

Flexible workforces and low profit margins: electronics assembly between Europe and China

This book investigates restructuring in the electronics industry and in particular the impact of a ‘Chinese’ labour regime on work and employment practices in the electronics assembly in Europe. It studies Foxconn, the world largest electronics manufacturing service provider and the main assembler... Find out more

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Martin Myant, Agnieszka Piasna, Sotiria Theodoropoulou

Unemployment, internal devaluation and labour market deregulation in Europe

Unemployment rates in the EU rose after the economic crisis of 2008, passing 10% in 2012, but with big variations between countries. The worst afflicted had been subject to so-called policies of internal devaluation, aimed at curing unemployment by reducing wage costs. This book provides a... Find out more

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Béla Galgóczi, Jan Drahokoupil, Magdalena Bernaciak

Foreign investment in eastern and southern Europe after 2008. Still a lever of growth?

This book investigates the role that foreign direct investment (FDI) in central-eastern and southern Europe has played in the post-crisis period, comparing patterns across countries and sectors. An overarching objective of this publication is to assess the extent to which FDI can still be seen as a... Find out more

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Magdalena Bernaciak

Market Expansion and Social Dumping in Europe

The term ‘social dumping’ regularly appears in public debates and in policymaking circles. However, due to its ambiguity it is used in a manner that is convenient for individual discourse participants, thus opening the door for misconceptions and ill-grounded accusations.This book systematically... Find out more

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Jan Drahokoupil

The outsourcing challenge: organizing workers across fragmented production networks

Production networks in many sectors have become increasingly fragmented. Cutting labour costs by lowering pay, increasing work intensity and/or shifting flexibility costs to workers are just some of the motivations for outsourcing. But it can also be used to circumvent employee representation and... Find out more

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