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Labour Mobility in Construction: European Implications of the Laval un Partneri Dispute with Swedish Labour

2006

The accession to the European Union of new member states from central and eastern Europe, with weak trade union movements, poorly developed social dialogue and inferior working conditions, has been viewed as a threat to regulated labour standards in the EU-15. This article examines a high-profile labour dispute arising from the conditions of Latvian construction contract labour in Sweden. The dispute exposes weaknesses in the protective floor of minimum standards offered by the posted workers Directive. It also goes to the core of the debate about the preservation of a ‘European social model’ and the proposed Services Directive.

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementEuropean social modelConstruction contractbusiness.industryStrategy and ManagementLabour law05 social sciences050209 industrial relationsInternational tradeDirectiveGeneral Business Management and Accounting0506 political scienceMarket economyManagement of Technology and Innovation0502 economics and businessSocial dialogueTrade unionEuropean integration050602 political science & public administrationEconomicsmedia_common.cataloged_instanceEU enlargement; European social model; posted workers Directive; labour standards; industrial disputes; construction industry;European unionbusinessmedia_commonEuropean Journal of Industrial Relations
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Why Do People Dislike Low-Wage Trade Competition with Posted Workers in the Service Sector?

2013

AbstractThe issue of low-wage competition in services trade involving posted workers is controversial in the EU. Using Swedish survey data, people's attitudes are found to be more negative to such trade than to goods trade. The differences depend on both a preference for favouring social groups to which individuals belong (the domestic population) and altruistic justice concerns for foreign workers. In small-group experiments, we find a tendency for people to adjust their evaluations of various aspects of trade to their general attitude. This tendency is stronger for those opposed to than those in favour of low-wage trade competition. This may indicate that the former group forms its attitu…

Economics and EconometricsLabour economicsservices trade posted workers wage regulations attitude formationPublic economicsbusiness.industryAttitudemedia_common.quotation_subjectLow wagejel:D01Competition (economics)jel:F16Services tradeWage regulationsEconomicsSurvey data collectionAttitude formationPosted workersbusinessTertiary sector of the economymedia_common
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