Government employers in Sweden, Denmark and Norway: The use of power to control wage and employment conditions
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Government employers in Sweden, Denmark and Norway : The use of power to control wage and employment conditions. / Hansen, Nana Wesley; Seip, Åsmund Arup.
In: European Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 24, No. 1, 29.01.2018, p. 73-89.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Government employers in Sweden, Denmark and Norway
T2 - The use of power to control wage and employment conditions
AU - Hansen, Nana Wesley
AU - Seip, Åsmund Arup
PY - 2018/1/29
Y1 - 2018/1/29
N2 - How do government employers exercise power in highly voluntarist bargaining models? In this article, we analyse the potential power of public employers in Sweden, Denmark and Norway and examine how they use this potential. We call attention to three areas in which government employers exercise power: direct political intervention, attempts to decentralize wage bargaining and control of wage movements. We argue that government employers in the three countries have similar institutional capacities for power, but their ways of exercising power vary according to political norms and practice.
AB - How do government employers exercise power in highly voluntarist bargaining models? In this article, we analyse the potential power of public employers in Sweden, Denmark and Norway and examine how they use this potential. We call attention to three areas in which government employers exercise power: direct political intervention, attempts to decentralize wage bargaining and control of wage movements. We argue that government employers in the three countries have similar institutional capacities for power, but their ways of exercising power vary according to political norms and practice.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Denmark
KW - government employers
KW - Nordic countries
KW - Norway
KW - power
KW - public sector
KW - Sweden
U2 - 10.1177/0959680117708371
DO - 10.1177/0959680117708371
M3 - Journal article
VL - 24
SP - 73
EP - 89
JO - European Journal of Industrial Relations
JF - European Journal of Industrial Relations
SN - 0959-6801
IS - 1
ER -
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