IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/ifwedp/201961.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Internal flexibility and collective bargaining in the European Union during the Great Recession: An analysis at the establishment level

Author

Listed:
  • Ruesga Benito, Santos
  • Heredero de Pablos, María Isabel
  • Da Silva Bichara, Julimar
  • Pérez Ortiz, Laura
  • Viñas Apaolaza, Ana

Abstract

The paper's main objective is to analyze the collective bargaining response in terms of internal flexibility during the Great Recession (GR) in five EU countries (Spain, Germany, France, Italy, United Kingdom), and three economic sectors (industry, commerce and hospitality, and financial services and real estate), at the establishment level (ECS2013 database). The theoretical frame-work used is linked to the varieties of unionism. Using a descriptive statistical analysis and a probit model, this paper presents new evidences. However, the responses were heterogeneous between countries and sectors, the use of internal functional flexibility has been more intense than the numerical and salary internal flexibility. Moreover, it is related to the intensity of GR. These results, in general, while requiring a more detailed analysis of the effects of the GR on internal flexibility in the EU countries, contribute to introducing a new perspective in the socioeconomic literature about the collective bargaining and internal flexibility.

Suggested Citation

  • Ruesga Benito, Santos & Heredero de Pablos, María Isabel & Da Silva Bichara, Julimar & Pérez Ortiz, Laura & Viñas Apaolaza, Ana, 2019. "Internal flexibility and collective bargaining in the European Union during the Great Recession: An analysis at the establishment level," Economics Discussion Papers 2019-61, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:ifwedp:201961
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/discussionpapers/2019-61
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/209121/1/1685402879.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. repec:ilo:ilowps:454205 is not listed on IDEAS
    2. Francesco Franceschi & Vincenzo Mariani, 2016. "Flexible labor and innovation in the Italian industrial sector," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 25(4), pages 633-648.
    3. Wachsen, Eva & Blind, Knut, 2016. "More labour market flexibility for more innovation? Evidence from employer–employee linked micro data," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 45(5), pages 941-950.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Canale, Rosaria Rita & Liotti, Giorgio & Musella, Marco, 2022. "Labour market flexibility and workers’ living conditions in Europe," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 62(C), pages 441-450.
    2. Chengde You & Huishan Qiu & Zhuojie Pi & Mengyuan Yu, 2023. "Sustainable Enterprise Development in the Manufacturing Sector: Flexible Employment and Innovation in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(10), pages 1-30, May.
    3. Grande, Rafael & Muñoz de Bustillo, Rafael & Fernández Macías, Enrique & Antón, José Ignacio, 2020. "Innovation and job quality. A firm-level exploration," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 54(C), pages 130-142.
    4. Colombelli, Alessandra & Grilli, Luca & Minola, Tommaso & Mrkajic, Boris, 2020. "To what extent do young innovative companies take advantage of policy support to enact innovation appropriation mechanisms?," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 49(10).
    5. Pantic-Dragisic, Svjetlana & Söderlund, Jonas, 2020. "Swift transition and knowledge cycling: Key capabilities for successful technical and engineering consulting?," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 49(1).
    6. Hoxha, Sergei & Kleinknecht, Alfred, 2020. "When labour market rigidities are useful for innovation. Evidence from German IAB firm-level data," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 49(7).
    7. Rybak, Aurelia & Rybak, Aleksandra, 2016. "Possible strategies for hard coal mining in Poland as a result of production function analysis," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 50(C), pages 27-33.
    8. Nascia, Leopoldo & Pianta, Mario, 2018. "Research and innovation policy in Italy," MPRA Paper 89510, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    9. Franco, Chiara & Landini, Fabio, 2022. "Organizational drivers of innovation: The role of workforce agility," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 51(2).
    10. Armanda Cetrulo & Dario Guarascio, 2018. "Weaker Jobs, Weaker Innovation. Exploring The Temporary Employment-Product Innovation Nexus," Working Papers 0032, ASTRIL - Associazione Studi e Ricerche Interdisciplinari sul Lavoro.
    11. Ruesga Benito, Santos & Heredero de Pablos, María Isabel & Da Silva Bichara, Julimar & Ortiz, Laura Pérez & Viñas, Ana Apaolaza & Monsueto, Sandro Eduardo, 2020. "European Union: Collective bargaining and internal flexibility during the Great Recession," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), vol. 14, pages 1-28.
    12. Mengmeng Meng & Jiasu Lei & Jie Jiao & Qiuyan Tao, 2020. "How does strategic flexibility affect bricolage: The moderating role of environmental turbulence," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(8), pages 1-18, August.
    13. Bernd Brandl & Nils Braakmann, 2021. "The effects of collective bargaining systems on the productivity function of firms: An analysis of bargaining structures and processes and the implications for policy making," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(3), pages 218-236, May.
    14. Grinza, Elena & Quatraro, Francesco, 2019. "Workers’ replacements and firms’ innovation dynamics: New evidence from Italian matched longitudinal data," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(9), pages 1-1.
    15. Ritter-Hayashi, Daniela & Knoben, Joris & Vermeulen, Patrick A.M., 2021. "Temporary employment: Curse or blessing for a firm's absorptive capacity?," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 173(C).
    16. Davide Consoli & Fabrizio Fusillo & Gianluca Orsatti & Francesco Quatraro, 2021. "Skill endowment, routinisation and digital technologies: evidence from U.S. Metropolitan Areas," Industry and Innovation, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(8), pages 1017-1045, September.
    17. Orsatti, Gianluca & Quatraro, Francesco, 2020. "Local Labor Market Impacts of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies: Evidence from European Nuts-3 Regions," Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis. Working Papers 202026, University of Turin.
    18. Ritter-Hayashi, D. & Knoben, Joris & Vermeulen, P.A.M., 2018. "Success Belongs to the Flexible Firm : How Labor Flexibility Can Retain Firm Innovativeness in Times of Downsizing," Other publications TiSEM 749e1bae-6946-40cb-a5fc-e, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
    19. Richard Duhautois & Christine Erhel & Mathilde Guergoat-Larivière & Malo Mofakhami, 2022. "More and Better Jobs, But Not for Everyone: Effects of Innovation in French Firms," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 75(1), pages 90-116, January.
    20. Alfred Kleinknecht, 2017. "Supply-side labour market reforms: a neglected cause of the productivity crisis," Working Papers 0027, ASTRIL - Associazione Studi e Ricerche Interdisciplinari sul Lavoro.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    China; collective bargaining; internal flexibility; Great Recession; establishment level;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:zbw:ifwedp:201961. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/iwkiede.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.