Synopsis
This book offers a labour perspective on wage-setting institutions, collective bargaining and economic development. Sixteen country chapters, eight on Asia and eight on Europe, focus in particular on the role and effectiveness of minimum wages in the context of national trends in income inequality, economic development, and social security.
About the Author
Karamat Ali Executive Director, Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER), Karachi, Pakistan. Kristin Alsos Researcher, FAFO Institute for Labour and Social Research, Oslo, Norway. Reinhard Bispinck Head of Department, Institute of Economic and Social Research in the Hans-Böckler-Foundation (WSI) and Head of the WSI Collective Bargaining Archive, Düsseldorf, Germany. Anna Bolsheva PhD candidate, St-Petersburg State University; policy and campaign officer, Building Wood Workers International (BWI), Moscow, Russia. Bela Galgoczi Senior researcher, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Brussels, Belgium. Dang Quang Dieu Member of Presidium of Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) and member of VGCL Scientific Council, Hanoi, Vietnam. Dong Thi Thuong Hien PhD fellow, Institute for Work, Skills and Training (IAQ) and Institute of Sociology (IfS), University of Duisburg Essen, Germany. Line Eldring Senior Researcher, FAFO Institute for Labour and Social Research, Oslo, Norway. Bela Galgoczi Senior researcher, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Brussels. Elena Gerasimova Associate Professor, Labour Law Department of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), and Director of the Center for Social and Labour Rights (CSLR), Moscow, Russia Denis Gregory (editor) Director, Trade Union Research Unit (TURU), Ruskin College, Oxford, UK. Rupert Griffin Associate, Mercer Talent, Melbourne, Australia; formerlyresearcher at Incomes Data Services (IDS), London, UK. Hansjörg Herr Professor of Supranational Economic Integration, Department of Business and Economics Berlin School of Economics and Law / Global Labour University (GLU), Berlin, Germany. Zeenat Hissam Researcher, Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER), Karachi, Pakistan Yongjian Hu Professor, School of Economics of the Tianjin University of Finance and Economics of China, Tianjin, China. Michel Husson Senior researcher, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES), Noisy-le-Grand, France. Sohail Javed Researcher, Applied Economics Research Centre (AERC), University of Karachi, Pakistan. Tae-Hyun Kim Director, Research Center, Korea Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), Seoul, Korea. Salvo Leonardi Senior researcher, Associazione Bruno Trentin-ISF-IRES, Rome, Italy. Sakdina Chatrakul Na Ayudhya Independent researcher, lecturer in Industrial Relations and Labour History at the Faculty of Labour Administration and Social Welfare, Thammasart University, Bangkok, Thailand. Riccardo Sanna Economic advisor and head of the Department of Public Economics, National Board General Italian Confederation of Labour (CGIL), Rome, Italy. Thorsten Schulten (editor) Head of Labour and Collective Bargaining Policy Division Europe, Institute of Economic and Social Research in the Hans-Böckler-Foundation (WSI), Düsseldorf, Germany. Estelle Sommeiller Researcher, Institut de RecherchesEconomiques et Sociales (IRES), Noisy-le-Grand, France. Kea Tijdens Research coordinator, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Surya Tjandra Director, Trade Union Rights Center (TURC) and lecturer Law Faculty - Atma Jaya Catholic University, Jakarta, Indonesia. Maarten van Klaveren (editor) Senior researcher, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced labour Studies (AIAS), University of Amsterdam, and senior consultant STZ consultancy & research, Eindhoven, Netherlands. Biju Varkkey Professor Personnel and Industrial Relations (P&IR), Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), Ahmedabad, India. Catherine Vincent Senior researcher, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES), Noisy-le-Grand, and Associate Professor University Paris-Ouest Nanterre, France.
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