TY - CONF T1 - Public Sector Labour Relations In Four European Countries Compared: Long-Term Convergence And Short-Term Divergences? Y1 - 2014 A1 - Andrea Müller A1 - Irene Ramos-Vielba A1 - Werner Schmidt A1 - Annette Thörnquist A1 - Christer Thörnqvist KW - England KW - Germany KW - industrial relations KW - labor relations KW - public-sector unions KW - Spain KW - Sweden AB -

This paper focuses on the impact of the 2007/2008 financial and economic crisis on the public sector and its labour relations in Spain, the UK, Sweden and Germany. The analysis of the contextual background - general and societal economic developments as well as industrial relations - in which such transformations happened embeds the comparison of the four country case studies. Our findings show that the crisis and austerity policies furthered some short-term divergent developments of the public sectors in the countries considered but long-term convergence can be also expected. Some theoretical conclusions from these mixed developments in the aftermath of the crisis are drawn.

PB - Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) 2014 Dublin CY - Dublin, Ireland L2 - eng UR - http://www.fatk.uni-tuebingen.de/files/mueller_et_al_2014.pdf ER -