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The Fragmentation of the Bargaining Society: Wage Setting in the Nordic Countries, 1950 to 1992
Ist Teil von
Comparative political studies, 1997-12, Vol.30 (6), p.699-731
Ort / Verlag
SAGE Publications
Erscheinungsjahr
1997
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It is commonly believed that corporatist bargaining institutions have been in general decline in the 1980s and 1990s. The leading explanations of the purported universal trend toward greater decentralization of collective bargaining are the impact of technological change, changes in the occupational structure, and growing international economic integration. Decentralization should be particularly visible in the Nordic countries, because collective bargaining was more centralized in these countries in the 1960s and 1970s than in any others in Western Europe. In this article, the authors present data on the changes in the centralization of wage bargaining in the four Nordic countries since 1950. They document that a significant decentralization of collective bargaining has occurred in Sweden, as is well known, but not in the other three. The article concludes with a review of possible explanations of Swedish exceptionalism.