Capitalist Divergence and Labour Market Flexibility in the Czech Republic and Hungary: A Comparative Analysis of Standard and Non-Standard Employment

The article presents a comparative analysis of standard & nonstandard employment (part-time employment, fixed-term employment, self-emp1oyment, & employment without a contract) in the Czech Republic & Hungary. It examines what the weight of the various types of employment is, & to what extent standard employment has the same meaning in the two countries. Also, it analyzes what gender, age groups, educational groups, & branches are particularly exposed to flexibility, & what the relationship is between flexibility & income. Finally, it discusses to what extent the differences observed between the two countries are linked to broader labor market developments & to diverse approaches towards the creation of postsocialist capitalism. The analysis shows converging as well as diverging tendencies between the two countries. They have similar levels of standard employment, but standard employment is constituted differently in terms of income, hours worked, & working time patterns. Also, the composition of nonstandard forms of employment & their relationship to income is different. In both countries, standard employment is low in the sectors of agriculture & trade & services, as well as for the young, the old, & the lowly educated. Women have higher rates of standard employment than men. The Czech labor market is however much more 'egalitarian' & the Hungarian one more 'polarized,' while employment is most precarious in Hungary. The differences between the two countries are linked to the stronger market orientation of the Hungarian postsocialist reforms, as well as to the fact that during the 1990s aggregate employment in Hungary fell much more strongly than in the Czech Republic

Understanding collective bargaining coordination : a network relational approach. The case of the Netherlands

This report presents the results of the Dutch case studies carried out for the project 'networked coordination of industrial relations (NETWIR)'. This project aims to use social network analysis as a tool to gain insight in coordination of collective bargaining in four countries: the Netherlands, Italy, Ireland and Spain. It is set-up as an explorative study, as social network analysis has seldom been applied to study collective bargaining. Therefore, this report should be read as a presentation of results as well as an evaluation of the method of social network analysis to study this topic. We first provide background to the context of industrial relations in the Netherlands and to the means of coordination of industrial relations that have been common over the last decades (section 1.1) and information on a social network approach to coordination of collective bargaining (section 1.2) Next, we give an overview of the literature that applies social network analysis to industrial relations in the Netherlands or use it as an analytical concept (section 2). Thereafter, we discuss the methodology used and describe the process of data collection (section 3), before we move on to presenting our case studies. In section 4, we apply the methodology to two sector cases: the pharmaceutical industries (4.1) and the supermarket sector (4.2). Here we will also present some comparative information from the other three countries involved in the NETWIR project. In section 5 we compare the two cases and section 6 presents conclusions

Creando instituciones capitalistas: El funcionamiento del mercado de trabajo en Hungría en los años noventa

This paper has two objectives. One is to determine to what extent ¿really existing Hungarian capitalism¿ departs from an ideal-type neo-classical market economy, by establishing the importance of other relevant modes of governance, i.e. employment and labour market policy, labour law and collective bargaining, and how they constrain or enable market regulation. The second is to understand why it is the present institutional configuration that has emerged and not another of the in principle infinite variety of possible outcomes. The paper identifies who the main actors are that have been shaping labour market institutions, what their ideas, interests... (Ver másEste estudio tiene dos objetivos. Uno de ellos es determinar hasta qué punto el ¿capitalismo realmente existente en Hungría¿ se aparta del modelo que establece la economía de mercado neoclásica, valorando la importancia de otras alternativas, como, por ejemplo, el empleo y la política laboral, la normativa laboral y la negociación colectiva, y analizando en qué medida restringen o permiten una regulación a través del mercado. El segundo objetivo es comprender por qué ha surgido la configuración institucional actual y no otra, teniendo en cuenta que, en principio, existe una variedad infinita de resultados posibles. Este trabajo identifica a los... (Ver más

Creating capitalist institutions : labour market governance in Hungary in the 1990s

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Capitalist Divergence and Labour Market Flexibility in the Czech Republic and Hungary: A Comparative Analysis of Standard and Non-Standard Employment

The article presents a comparative analysis of standard and non-standard employment (part-time employment, fixed-term employment, self-employment and employment without a contract) in the Czech Republic and Hungary. It examines what the weight of the various types of employment is, and to what extent standard employment has the same meaning in the two countries. Also, it analyses what gender, age groups, educational groups and branches are particularly exposed to flexibility, and what the relationship is between flexibility and income. Finally, it discusses to what extent the differences observed between the two countries are linked to broader labour market developments and to diverse approaches towards the creation of post-socialist capitalism. The analysis shows converging as well as diverging tendencies between the two countries. They have similar levels of standard employment, but standard employment is constituted differently in terms of income, hours worked and working-time patterns. Also, the composition of non-standard forms of employment and their relationship to income is different. In both countries, standard employment is low in the sectors of agriculture and trade and services, as well as for the young, the old and the lowly educated. Women have higher rates of standard employment than men. The Czech labour market is however much more 'egalitarian' and the Hungarian one more 'polarised', while employment is most precarious in Hungary. The differences between the two countries are linked to the stronger market orientation of the Hungarian post-socialist reforms, as well as to the fact that during the 1990s aggregate employment in Hungary fell much more strongly than in the Czech Republic

Creating capitalist labour markets : a comparative-institutionalist analysis of labour market reform in the Czech Republic and Hungary, 1989-2002

Defence date: 20 November 2006Supervisor: C. CrouchPDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 201