Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tijdens, Kea
• van Klaveren, Maarten
• Bispinck, Reinhard
• Dribbusch, Heiner
• Öz, Fikret

Titel

Wage and workforce adjustments in the economic crisis in Germany and the Netherlands

Ist Teil von

• European journal of industrial relations, 2014-06, Vol.20 (2), p.165-183

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study uses data from a continuous employee web-survey to investigate the trade-off between wage and workforce adjustments and the role of industrial relations in firm-level responses to the economic crisis in Germany and the Netherlands. Workforce adjustments seemed to be a continuous organizational strategy, but wage adjustments were less often reported. We found no large-scale evidence of wage concessions being traded-off for job protection in the two countries. Collective bargaining ensured that wage-setting was more robust than employment protection: employees covered by collective agreements reported workforce adjustments more often than wage adjustments. Low-educated and low-wage employees reported basic wage reductions more often: the economic crisis increased wage inequality. Labour hoarding was reported predominantly by young, male employees with a permanent, full-time contract.