Sept. 30, 2022
BARWAGE: KIck-off meeting on September 30, 2022
Projects
BARWAGE: The importance of collective bargaining for wage setting in the European Union
52
2022 - 2024
Project number:
101052319
This project has received financial support from the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
The BARWAGE project studied the importance of collective bargaining for wage setting in the European Union Member States. The project investigated the extent to which collective bargaining contributes to the goal of fixing adequate wages in the EU, and subsequently explored the extent to which and way in which collectively bargained provisions leave a discretionary space for individual employers to make decisions on pay.
Project goals:
- To quantify the wage-setting arenas in EU27 by performing quantitative analyses.
- To determine to what extent and how collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) in nine EU countries (AT, BG, CZ, EE, ES, IT, FR, NL, PT) set wage levels and wage increases and whether patterns by industry and bargaining level can be identified per country.
- To determine which arenas are important for wage setting in industries across nine EU countries in cases where wages are not set by pay scale tables in CBAs.
- To determine for which workers pay scales included in CBAs set wages in industries across nine EU countries in cases where wages are by pay scale tables in CBAs.
- To determine to what extent are wages set through collective bargaining, broken down by country, industry and bargaining level and can the four wage-setting arenas be quantified for nine EU countries.
The lead partner of the project is the Utrecht University in Netherlands.
All of the BARWAGE reports can be found here: https://zenodo.org/communities/barwage/
Publications:
- Introduction to the BARWAGE Project
- The WageIndicator Collective Agreements Database
- The interplay of statutory minimum wages and collective wage bargaining across European sectors
- Wages in collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) in 10 European countries: provisions on minimum wages and pay scales
- STATA script linking minimum wage rates to microdata
- Discretion and (de)centralization in wage bargaining in the construction, hospitality, urban transport and waste management sectors: A Study on Bulgaria. BARWAGE Report 4.
- Discretion and (de)centralization in wage bargaining in the construction, hospitality, urban transport and waste management sectors: A Study on Czechia. BARWAGE Project Report 5.
- Discretion and (de)centralization in wage bargaining in the construction, hospitality, urban transport and waste management sectors: A study on Estonia. BARWAGE Project Report No. 6.
- Discretion and (de)centralization in wage bargaining in the construction, hospitality, urban transport and waste management sectors: A study on France. BARWAGE Project Report 7.
- Discretion and (de)centralization in wage bargaining in the construction, hospitality, urban transport and waste management sectors: A study on Italy. BARWAGE Project Report 8.
- Discretion and (de)centralization in wage bargaining in the construction, hospitality, urban transport and waste management sectors: A study on the Netherlands. BARWAGE Project Report 9.
- Discretion and (de)centralization in wage bargaining in the construction, hospitality, urban transport and waste management sectors: A study on Portugal. BARWAGE Project Report 10.
- Discretion and (de)centralization in wage bargaining in the construction, hospitality, urban transport and waste management sectors: A study on Spain. BARWAGE Project Report 11.
- Wage Bargaining in the Context of Liberalisation of Industrial Relations in Europe: A Comparison of nine countries and four sectors. BARWAGE Project Report 12.
- The distribution of employees and wages in five sectors of activity: the Italian case. BARWAGE Report 13.
- Exploring wage gaps between earned wages and bargained pay rates: the Dutch Case. BARWAGE Project report 14.
- The relation between collectively bargained and earned wages in sector level bargaining in 7 EU member states. BARWAGE Report 15.
- Mind the gap between your collective agreement and your wages: assessing the importance of collective bargaining for wage setting in Europe. BARWAGE Report 16.
