Crisis and change in industrial relations in Central and Eastern Europe (original) (raw)

Industrial relations in South-Eastern Europe: disaggregating the contexts

The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2014

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Industrial restructuring in Central and South-Eastern Europe: Difference of degree or kind?

in: Pálné Kovács, Ilona – Scott, James – Gál, Zoltán (Eds.): Territorial Cohesion in Europe: For the 70th Anniversary of the Transdanubian Research Institute. Institute for Regional Studies, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pécs, 377–390., 2013

The territory of post-socialist Europe is a space fragmented by old (historical) and recent (post-socialist) divisions. The frameworks of integration and directions of orientation have changed multiple times within one century, but there are also long-running differences which continue to affect development processes. Like all macro-regions of Europe, overall development trends are characterised by strong path-dependency, and are formed by socio-economic as well as political conditions. In this paper, I examine the industrial development of South-Eastern Europe from a comparative perspective, in contrast with the development processes seen in the Visegrad states. De-industrialisation and disintegration, as well as reindustrialisation and reintegration processes will be studied. My main question concerns the nature of development: if we consider both Central and South-Eastern Europe a part of the European periphery, are the two showing the same processes in industrial development, or are the models fundamentally different? Can we speak of a simple development lag (difference of degree), or do the differences amount to something qualitatively different (difference of kind)? The answers to these questions have far-reaching implications for both the region itself and to broader Europe.

Choosing Right from Wrong: Industrial Policy and (De)industrialization in Central and Eastern Europe

2017

Over the past two and a half decades, the economic landscape of Central and Eastern European economies went through several waves of transformation. The demise of traditional industries and the rise of the service sector during the 1990s inclined economic structure towards deindustrialization. The events over the next years paved the way for the rise of new industries in many of these countries and embarked them on the route of reindustrialization. However, in some countries the rise of new industries was more modest and took place at a much slower pace. Such development can be attributed to the process of industrial restructuring as well as industrial policies. The recent rise of awareness about the importance of industrial development for the growth and well-being of nations makes it relevant to investigate the sources behind changes in the economic structure of Central and Eastern European countries. Our findings reveal two groups of CEECs, defined as reindustrializing and those ...

The Labour Market Situation in the Central-Eastern European Region – Towards a New Labour Paradigm

The author assumes that globalization and its regional and local impacts have an important role in nowadays’ economics. An overview is given about the main findings of the economic theories associated with employment and paid work; reinterpretation of the concept of labour is also provided, divided into pre-industrial, industrial and post-industrial periods, which the author aligns with the periods of the economic thought. The author interprets globalization as a factor influencing the transition between industrial and post-industrial periods; and she elaborately introduces its economic-social and labour market impacts. Central-Eastern European countries and regions are analyzed, as the territorial unit of the research, from labour market and employment aspects. Special attention is paid to the comparative evaluation of the employment policy documents in the case of the investigated countries. The author also draws attention to the deficiencies of labour situation. Afterwards, she contributes suggestions to the criteria of creating a more efficient regional employment policy.

The comparative analysis of the industrial relations systems in Europe

International Journal of Management and Economics

This article aims to quantify the institutional similarities between industrial relations systems in 11 Central and Eastern European countries (CEE11), on the one hand and each of the four models of capitalism in Western Europe identified by Amable [2003], on the other hand. The comparative analysis was performed on the basis of six variables. Three of them represent inputs or institutional determinants of industrial relations. Another three variables represent outputs or the labor market performance. For each variable, the similarity coefficients between CEE11 countries and four reference EU15 economies representing Western European models of capitalism were calculated. Based on these coefficients, the hexagons of similarity were built. The analyses led us to some general observations. In 2005, most of the countries in the region developed industrial relations systems similar to the continental model, what can be interpreted as a strategy to meet the requirements imposed on these c...

Employment relations in Central and Eastern Europe in 2002: towards EU accession

Industrial Relations Journal, 2003

The paper, in outlining the main trends in employment relations in the CEE in 2002, is divided into three sections. The first section examines the economic and political contexts relevant to employment relations. The CEE economies grew faster than West European-or even the US-in 2002. The main drivers of growth were domestic demand and resilient exports, especially to Russia and the CIS, sustained by high oil prices. Growth was accompanied by slowly appreciating currencies and rising real wages, but not by significant employment growth; the only country showing employment growth was Hungary, at one per cent. The political environment was dominated by the continuing negotiations over the acquis communautaire, which were successfully concluded by December 2002; Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia were to join the EU in May 2004. Romania and Bulgaria will probably do so in 2007. The second section examines developments in employment relations specifically, covering trade unions, employers' organisations,