Decentralising social dialogue: panacea or illusion?

Decentralisation of collective bargaining has been one of the key
trends concerning labour market regulation of the last decades.
Most of European countries have developed – with different breath
and scope – procedures and reforms to strengthen the company
level of bargaining. 


Countries with an intermediate degree of centralisation can
achieve better employment and inflation results by pursuing
greater decentralisation of wage setting (through collective
bargaining). Additionally, in the presence of productivity
differentials across industries and regions, decentralisation can
make wages responsive to these differences.


This webinar with Marc De Vos (Visiting Fellow Itinera and Dean
Macquary University Sidney) and Daniel Pérez del Prado (PhD.
Associate Professor at the Department of Social and International
Law of Carlos III University of Madrid) focuses on the cases of
four Mediterranean countries – France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal
– in order to assess how decentralisation has been carried out
and, most importantly, what kind of practical results have been
achieved.

You can watch this webinar on our youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFSM90QH6y0&list=PLMniy0g_1rOPqQMmJeRsYaB59k57AesA0


Or read the paper, with a Dutch and French summary:
https://www.itinerainstitute.org/nl/artikel/sociaal-overleg-2/