Collective bargaining, wage setting and downward adjustments in the continental European labour market: evidence from Portugal

Vilares, Hugo Filipe Henriques de Almeida Esteves (2021) Collective bargaining, wage setting and downward adjustments in the continental European labour market: evidence from Portugal. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Abstract

With the Great Recession as enduring scenery, this journey dwells in widening the acumen on Continental European Labour Markets, particularly during sizable downturns. The yacht, the Portuguese case, is one of its representative designs. The course departs with the specific mannerisms of wage setting institutions, where the first leg reasons the dynamics of collective bargaining in distressed periods, and the second focuses on the influence of trade unions in this wage setting protocol. Then, we have a regatta for an empirical structural analysis of the dynamics of the wage setting and its resilience under significant distress. The last straw deals with the interaction between the labour market institutions and firm liquidity; and its influence on the dynamics of wages and unemployment throughout recessionary periods. At the final harbour, we have drawn a consistent sketch of our yacht’s blueprints, and hopefully of those alike. As the zenith of the journey, we have broaden the knowledge about its conduct on rough waters.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Additional Information:	© 2021 Hugo Filipe Henriques de Almeida Esteves Vilares
Library of Congress subject classification:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Sets:	Departments > Economics
URI:	http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/4327

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