Industrial relations and welfare state are interrelated. On the basis of time-series data for 20 OECD countries, this paper discusses and tests the impact of industrial relations on social expenditures, including 'social pacts' as a means of combining wage moderation and welfare state reforms....

Pattern bargaining stands out as both an under-researched and controversial subject. This article is an analytical and empirical contribution to this debate. Theoretically, it provides a conceptual framework, which enables analysis to systematically differentiate between distinct forms of...

Industrial relations and welfare state are interrelated. On the basis of time-series data for 20 OECD countries, this paper discusses and tests the impact of industrial relations on social expenditures, including 'social pacts' as a means of combining wage moderation and welfare state reforms....

Finding a good forecasting model in a data-rich environment is a complex problem which challenges forecasters and statistical methods. In such an environment, automated modelling strategies are necessary for an efficient use of the information in the data. In contrast to frequently applied...

Conventional wisdom regards wage regulation as uncoordinated across Europe. In relation to advanced economic integration, this implies a `suboptimal' wage area, which led to many conjectures about its consequences, ranging from disorganization of collective bargaining to adverse macro-economic...

Several empirical studies derive that personal positions with respect to policy measures are dominated by ideology instead of narrow self-interest. In the present field study we carried out a telephone survey with 1,003 respondents all over Austria. Instead of measuring selfishness indirectly by...