Given the rhetoric that human resource management (HRM) models adopted by public and
private organisations are becoming more similar, this study questions whether the traditional …

German public sector wage restraint has been explained through the presence of a specific
type of inter‐sectoral wage coordination in the industrial relations system—that is, export …

Cross-country variation in the outcomes of public sector wage-setting (PSWS) persists in
Europe. Received wisdom from the neo-corporatist scholarship attributes it to the …

This article explores the potential of regulatory and policy reform for gender-equitable
decent work in social and community services, a rapidly growing sector of female …

We use a power resources approach to examine the effects of the 2008–2009 financial and
economic crisis on public sector trade union power in Germany, Spain, Sweden and the UK …

This special issue (SI) brings the industrial relations scholarship on the public sector into
dialogue with the comparative political economy (CPE) literature on growth models/regimes …

Studies on the drivers of public sector wage setting (PSWS) within the broader political and
economic conditions in Central and Eastern Europe are scarce. To fill this gap, the paper …

The Italian system of industrial relations is characterized by a number of original traits,
viewed in a comparative perspective. One such trait is the high degree of voluntarism and …

The paper asks for the contribution of growth models for the explanation of public sector
employment relations in Germany. The paper is subdivided into three parts. The first …

This article provides an overview of academic and public policy debates on the role and
effects of collective bargaining. The motivation behind this article is that the academic and …