Industrial Relations and Social Partners in the EU
Brief description
- Actors in industrial relations: Trade unions, employers' associations, states
- Differences and similarities of national wage and labour market policies (Varieties of Capitalism/Welfare State Models)
- Current development of industrial relations in the EU member states and the EU
- Theoretical models for analysing wage and labour market policies: Wage setting/Price setting model in the open economy, Phillips curve, Beveridge curve
- Industrial relations forums at EU level: role of macro-economic dialogue, social partners in the European Semester
- International competitiveness and wage policy
- Inflation and employment in the Eurozone under the condition of a single monetary policy
Mode of delivery
face to face
Type
compulsory
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Carlin, Wendy/Soskice, David (2015): Macroeconomics. Institutions, Instability, and the Financial System, Oxford: University Press.
Eurofound (2020): Industrial relations: Developments 2015–2019, Challenges and prospects in the EU series, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.
European Commission (2015): Industrial Relations in Europe 2014, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.
Hancké, Bob (2012): Unions, Central Banks, and EMU: Labour Market Institutions and Monetary Integration in Europe, Oxford: University Press.
Current literature will be announced by the lecturer at the beginning of the semester.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Group discussions, presentations, group discussions, self-directed learning, implementation and evaluation of expert hearings
Assessment methods and criteria
Presentation (40%) and home assignment (60%)
Prerequisites and co-requisites
None
Infos
Degree programme
Europäische Wirtschaftspolitik
Cycle
International Programme
ECTS Credits
5.00
Language of instruction
German
Curriculum
Full-Time
Academic year
2025
Semester
3 WS
Incoming
No
Learning outcome
After successful completion of the module, students can:
- describe the main forums of industrial relations at EU level (e.g. role in the European Semester, macroeconomic dialogue, etc.),
- analyse the role of trade unions, employers' organisations and member states,
- examine how national industrial relations are influenced by Europeanisation and globalisation,
- analyse, on the basis of economic models of wage and labour market policy, how the different types of industrial relations influence wages, employment, inflation and competitiveness nationally and in the Eurozone as a whole,
- assess different wage and labour market policy options,
- analyse tensions that arise from different national wage policies with a simultaneous uniform European monetary policy and to classify, evaluate and develop policy options in this field of tension.
Course code
0899-23-01-VZ-DE-23