Ever since the European Court of Justice delivered its Laval judgment on 18 December 2007, the name of this small Latvian company has become notorious. The sole mention of ‘Viking and Laval' has become short-hand for those critical of a certain idea of Europe giving primacy to economic...

Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is known about the effects of pacts on firm performance....

Various attempts have been made to measure trade union coverage, collective bargaining, freedom of association, and quot;voicequot; to better understand social dialogue. This is essential to implement and control decent work. This paper collects statistics from various sources, describing how...

Social dialogue, one of the main components of decent work, is the process of information and opinion exchange amongst employer, worker, and government representatives to consult, negotiate, and reach agreements on issues that concern them, which reflects the global diversity of the labour...

The European Union and the United States operate different variants of market capitalism. The EU model uses social dialogue institutions to help determine economic outcomes, particularly in the labor market, whereas the US relies more on market forces. The theory of competitive markets provides...

While the European intersectoral social dialogue has been, according to the Commission's own admission, dragging its feet for the last few years on account of a lack of commitment on the part of the private sector employers, the sectoral social dialogue is often presented as a more dynamic and...