Minimum Wages, Collective Bargaining and Economic Development in Asia and Europe

Karamat AliExecutive Director, Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER), Karachi, Pakistan.Kristin AlsosResearcher, FAFO Institute for Labour and Social Research, Oslo, Norway.Reinhard BispinckHead of Department, Institute of Economic and Social Research in the Hans-Böckler-Foundation (WSI) and Head of the WSI Collective Bargaining Archive, Düsseldorf, Germany.Anna BolshevaPhD candidate, St-Petersburg State University; policy and campaign officer, Building Wood Workers International (BWI), Moscow, Russia.Bela GalgocziSenior researcher, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Brussels, Belgium.Dang Quang DieuMember of Presidium of Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) and member of VGCL Scientific Council, Hanoi, Vietnam.Dong Thi Thuong HienPhD fellow, Institute for Work, Skills and Training (IAQ) and Institute of Sociology (IfS), University of Duisburg Essen, Germany.Line EldringSenior Researcher, FAFO Institute for Labour and Social Research, Oslo, Norway.Bela GalgocziSenior researcher, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Brussels.Elena GerasimovaAssociate Professor, Labour Law Department of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), and Director of the Center for Social and Labour Rights (CSLR), Moscow, RussiaDenis Gregory (editor)Director, Trade Union Research Unit (TURU), Ruskin College, Oxford, UK.Rupert GriffinAssociate, Mercer Talent, Melbourne, Australia; formerlyresearcher at Incomes Data Services (IDS), London, UK.Hansjörg HerrProfessor of Supranational Economic Integration, Department of Business and Economics Berlin School of Economics and Law / Global Labour University (GLU), Berlin, Germany.Zeenat HissamResearcher, Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER), Karachi, PakistanYongjian HuProfessor, School of Economics of the Tianjin University of Finance and Economics of China, Tianjin, China.Michel HussonSenior researcher, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES), Noisy-le-Grand, France.Sohail JavedResearcher, Applied Economics Research Centre (AERC), University of Karachi, Pakistan.Tae-Hyun KimDirector, Research Center, Korea Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), Seoul, Korea.Salvo LeonardiSenior researcher, Associazione Bruno Trentin-ISF-IRES, Rome, Italy.Sakdina Chatrakul Na AyudhyaIndependent researcher, lecturer in Industrial Relations and Labour History at the Faculty of Labour Administration and Social Welfare, Thammasart University, Bangkok, Thailand.Riccardo SannaEconomic advisor and head of the Department of Public Economics, National Board General Italian Confederation of Labour (CGIL), Rome, Italy.Thorsten Schulten (editor)Head of Labour and Collective Bargaining Policy Division Europe, Institute of Economic and Social Research in the Hans-Böckler-Foundation (WSI), Düsseldorf, Germany.Estelle SommeillerResearcher, Institut de RecherchesEconomiques et Sociales (IRES), Noisy-le-Grand, France.Kea TijdensResearch coordinator, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.Surya TjandraDirector, Trade Union Rights Center (TURC) and lecturer Law Faculty - Atma Jaya Catholic University, Jakarta, Indonesia.Maarten van Klaveren (editor)Senior researcher, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced labour Studies (AIAS), University of Amsterdam, and senior consultant STZ consultancy & research, Eindhoven, Netherlands.Biju VarkkeyProfessor Personnel and Industrial Relations (P&IR), Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), Ahmedabad, India.Catherine VincentSenior researcher, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES), Noisy-le-Grand, and Associate Professor University Paris-Ouest Nanterre, France.

This book offers a labour perspective on wage-setting institutions, collective bargaining and economic development. Sixteen country chapters, eight on Asia and eight on Europe, focus in particular on the role and effectiveness of minimum wages in the context of national trends in income inequality, economic development, and social security.

1. Asia: A Comparative Perspective 2. China 3. Vietnam 4. Korea 5. Japan 6. Pakistan 7. India 8. Indonesia 9. Thailand 10. Europe: A Comparative Perspective 11. France 12. Italy 13. Germany 14. The Netherlands 15. The Nordic Countries 16. Central And Eastern Europe 17. The United Kingdom 18. The Russian Federation Statistical Appendix: Comparative Statistics