Peripheral Convergence in the Crisis? Southern and Eastern European Labour Markets and Industrial Relations

• Authors: Meardi Guglielmo
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper explores the issue of progressing convergence of labour markets in two EU member states from the Southern (Italy and Spain) and Eastern (Poland) regions of the continent. After 2008 the series of crises hit the South particularly hard, which triggered profound labour market reforms. As a result Southern European countries have been facing growing flexibility and employment insecurity that had characterised Eastern Europe prior to the economic breakdown. On the other hand, the paper takes a look at Poland - which has avoided the worst consequences of the crisis - in an attempt to establish whether the country has moderated their neoliberal reforms, drawing on painful experiences of the South.

Keywords

EN

labour market; crisis; peripheral economies; austerity; employment flexibility

• Publisher: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
• Journal: Warsaw Forum of Economic Sociology
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 7-27

Contributors

author

Meardi Guglielmo

• University of Warwick

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