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9.1. INTRODUCTION 9.1. INTRODUCTION
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9.2. RECONFIGURING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN THE 1990s 9.2. RECONFIGURING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN THE 1990s
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9.2.1. Competitive Pressure in the Early 1990s 9.2.1. Competitive Pressure in the Early 1990s
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9.3. CONCESSION BARGAINING AS A NEW TOOL 9.3. CONCESSION BARGAINING AS A NEW TOOL
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9.4. DIVIDED EMPLOYERS AND REFORM PRESSURE ON PUBLIC POLICY 9.4. DIVIDED EMPLOYERS AND REFORM PRESSURE ON PUBLIC POLICY
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9.5. RENEWING THE TRAINING REGIME 9.5. RENEWING THE TRAINING REGIME
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9.5.1. The Evolution of Training in the 1980s and 1990s 9.5.1. The Evolution of Training in the 1980s and 1990s
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9.5.2. Avoiding the Training Levy 9.5.2. Avoiding the Training Levy
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9.5.3. The Reform of the Regulatory Framework of Vocational Training 9.5.3. The Reform of the Regulatory Framework of Vocational Training
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9.6. CONCLUSION 9.6. CONCLUSION
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9.6.1. Institutional Change and the Policy Process 9.6.1. Institutional Change and the Policy Process
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9.6.2. A Less Social-Democratic but Still Coordinated Market Economy 9.6.2. A Less Social-Democratic but Still Coordinated Market Economy
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NOTES NOTES
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9 What Does Business Want? Labour Market Reforms in CMEs and Its Problems
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Published:May 2007
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The chapter assesses recent reforms of key labour market institutions such as wage bargaining and the training regime in Germany, in the light of the VoC approach. According to the VoC literature, firms in CMEs generally should have an interest in preserving the institutional capacities to co-ordinate unless the government cannot credibly commit itself to preserving the system. The empirical evidence on firms' behaviour is mixed. On the one hand, business and employers' associations have only pressed for marginal change within the given institutions. On the other hand, business campaigns and political behaviour indicate that German business has started to take a more active and a more radical position vis-à-vis German labour market institutions. The chapter argues that the two seemingly opposing pieces of evidence can be reconciled. Business largely does not want to abandon existing labour market institutions, but to push changes that make institutions to work in their favour. Business and producer interests are still rooted in the given institutional framework. Their preference is to push the workings of the institutions towards more flexibility for firms without dismantling them. The continuing interest of German business in preserving existing labour market institutions does not, however, guarantee that the institutional framework itself or the favourable policy outcomes of low youth unemployment, and an egalitarian wage structure are stabilized in the long-run.
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