1st Edition

Posted Work in the European Union The Political Economy of Free Movement

Edited By Jens Arnholtz, Nathan Lillie Copyright 2020
228 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

Focusing on posting of workers, where workers employed in one country are send to work in another country, this edited volume is at the nexus of industrial relations and European Union studies. The central aim is to understand how the regulatory regime of worker "posting" is driving institutional changes to national industrial relations systems. In the introduction, the editors develop a... Read more
Chapter 1 – European Integration and the Reconfiguration of National Industrial Relations: Posted Work as a Driver of Institutional Change 1.1 The socio-economic drivers of EU posting 1.2 Competing legal principles and the fundamental tension of posted work 1.3 Firm practices as the driver of change 1.4 Pressure on domestic institutions and incremental change 1.5 Enforcement actors and creative re-enactment of institutions 1.6 National institutional change in response to posted work 1.7 Feedback and European level changes 1.8 The chapters and their contribution to the argument 1.9 Conclusions References Chapter 2 – The benefits of posting: Facts and figures on the use and impact of intra-EU posting 2.1 Introduction 2.2 ‘The posted worker’: A multifaceted notion with a very concentrated impact 2.2.1 Intra-EU posting ‘at a glance’ 2.2.2 The evolution of intra-EU posting 2.2.3 Some characteristics of intra-EU posting 2.2.4 The impact of intra-EU posting on national labour markets 2.3 Are we blinded by the potential negative consequences of intra-EU posting? 2.3.1 Benefits of intra-EU posting from the perspective of the Member State of origin 2.3.2 Higher wages and purchasing power for posted workers 2.3.3 Higher tax revenues from posted workers 2.3.4 Intra-EU posting as adjustment mechanism for economic shocks 2.4 Benefits of intra-EU posting from the perspective of the host Member State 2.4.1 Various motives to use intra-EU posting 2.4.2 Does intra-EU posting lead to lower costs and prices? 2.5 The more we know about posting, the better we can discuss it: Perception vs reality

Biography

Jens Arnholtz received his PhD from the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. He is now an Associate Professor at the Employment Relations Research Center (FAOS) at that department.



Nathan Lillie is Professor of Social and Public Policy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

"This edited volume is a much-needed contribution from leading scholars that addresses key contradictions of free movement of labour within the European single market from the perspective of a critical political economy of regulation. In so doing, it breaks new ground and repositions previously disparate disciplinary preoccupations. As such, it will be a key reference for those interested in industrial relations, labour law and regulation theory, as well as for policy-makers and practitioners at national and European level concerned with the increasingly contentious labour market implications of the cross-border movement of migrant workers." –Charles Woolfson, Linköping University, Sweden

"Posted workers are the critical test of free movement of workers, and thereby of the whole EU project. This book provides the ultimate analysis of a phenomenon that is still not clearly understood, and does not refrain from providing sharp policy recommendations." –Guglielmo Meardi, University of Warwick, UK