Marta Kahancová contributed with a chapter with Vassil Kirov titled "Shaping minimum wages in Central and Eastern Europe: Giving up collective bargaining in favour of legal regulation?" and a second chapter with Elizardo Scarpati Costa titled "Minimum wages and inequality mitigation in post-dictatorship industrial relations systems in Latin America: The case of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay".

This book goes beyond traditional minimum wage research to investigate the interplay between different country and sectoral institutional settings and actors’ strategies in the field of minimum wage policies.

It asks which strategies and motives, namely free collective bargaining, fair pay and/or minimum income protection, are emphasised by social actors with respect to the regulation and adaptation of (statutory) minimum wages. Taking an actor-centered institutionalist approach, and employing cross-country comparative studies, sector studies and single country accounts of change, the book relates institutional and labour market settings, actors’ strategies and power resources with policy and practice outcomes. Looking at the key pay equity indicators of low wage development and women’s over-representation among the low paid, it illuminates our understandings about the importance of historical junctures, specific constellations of social actors, and sector- and country-specific actor strategies. Finally, it underlines the important role of social dialogue in shaping an effective minimum wage policy.

The book is available for purchase at: https://www.routledge.com/Minimum-Wage-Regimes-Statutory-Regulation-Collective-Bargaining-and-Adequate/Dingeldey-Grimshaw-Schulten/p/book/9781138392380