| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This research is aimed at understanding the current situation of the European social dialogue and at providing an analysis of its functions at macro-level. The social dialogue, which involved the cooperation of the European political organization and the representatives of capital and labor associations, was given a pivotal role in the development of the social dimension and labor market regulation in Europe. Within a period of around seven years after its launch, it was integrated into the legislative processes of the European social policy formation. Nevertheless, the development of a full-fledged ‘Euro-corporatist' system of ‘governance by negotiation (Hollingworth & Boyer, 1997)', is said to have been hampered by both endogenous and exogenous factors : the weak institutional structure of interest intermediation and the supranational ‘state', the breakdown of centralized wage bargaining in some countries, a diminishing role of Keynesian macro-economic management and an increasing recourse to the market. In order to locate and evaluate the state of play of the European social dialogue, this research takes a step back in an attempt to place it within and compare it with the changing role of national corporatism in six countries. It is discussed that its functions may be a little short of ‘quasi' or ‘demi' corporatism, but that it is in the continuous process of formation and its participative democratic role and wage coordination at meso-level may be of particular interest for future research. The results of this research are presented in a summary report together with an analysis of its functions at micro-level.
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