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Labor and an Integrated Europe
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2010
Summary
As the European Community moves toward full integration of its members' economies, one of the most far-reaching changes will be in the European labor market. Nontariff barriers to trade between the member countries will be removed, and workers will become free to seek employment anywhere in the Community. As these changes take place, individual markets stand to lose their national identities while workers and employers face profound challenges.
In this book, a group of leading labor economists and social scientists address an array of concerns about economic integration and provide insight into labor's likely response. They identify the challenges of the Single Market Program and explore the implications of western European integration for European industrial relations, European labor mobility, and economies and labor markets in the rest of the world.
The contributors assess the impact of economic unification on European trade unions, wage-bargaining, work rules, training programs, and benefits. They draw on U.S. experiences in the centralization and more recent decentralization of the work force, consider the German system of industrial relations as a model for power sharing between workers and managers, and explore current efforts of labor market restructuring and privatization in central and eastern Europe. They address such questions as: Will pension and health insurance arrangements constrain worker mobility? Will cross-country wage differences within the EC narrow? And will exchange rates and monetary unification exacerbate unemployment problems? They also examine the impact of unification on immigration policy, capital markets, and trade.
Labor and an Integrated Europe provides a much needed background for developing a coherent plan that deals with these crucial labor issues.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-8681-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-1683-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
295
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Recent History and the Dynamics of Integration No access
Scope of the Book No access
Conceptual Structure No access
Two U.S. Episodes No access
The Recent European Experience No access
Prospects No access
WPM and the European Community: The History of the Debate No access
WPM at the National Level No access
Impacts and Prospects No access
Defining a European Industrial Relations System No access
Obstacles to Creating a European Industrial Relations System No access
Summary and Conclusion No access
West German Labor Market Institutions No access
Transplanting West German Institutions in the East No access
Benefits and Social Europe No access
Benefits and the Employment Relationship No access
Health Insurance Issues No access
Benefit Plans in Three Countries No access
Conclusions No access
Institutional Developments since the Treaty of Rome No access
Wage Equalization No access
Migration No access
Conclusions and Prospects No access
The Debate over Monetary Unification No access
Regional Unemployment Disparities in Britain and Italy No access
Econometric Evidence No access
Comparisons with the United States No access
Charting the Future with Evidence from the Past No access
Conclusion No access
Appendix: Description of Data No access
From Liberal to Protectionist Immigration Policies No access
The Political Economy of Immigration Policy Reversals No access
