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The Restructuring of Wage-Setting Fields between Transnational Competition and Coordination
Susanne Pernicka1, Vera Glassner1, Nele Dittmar1
1Institut für Soziologie, Abteilung Wirtschafts- und Organisationssoziologie, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria.
OZS, Osterreichische Zeitschrift Fur Soziologie
|July 2, 2019
Summary
Wage-setting institutions in social services in Austria and Germany diverged due to distinct institutional paths. Power relations and conflict dynamics significantly shaped these differing wage-setting structures in social services.
Area of Science:
- Social Sciences
- Economics
- Sociology
Background:
- Social services encompass diverse state, private, and non-profit organizations.
- European and national policies on economic liberalization and austerity, alongside global economic shifts, impact social service institutions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze the restructuring of wage-setting institutions in Austria and Germany's social services.
- To understand the forces driving changes and continuities in these institutions.
- To explore the role of power relations and conflict dynamics in shaping wage-setting.
Main Methods:
- Utilizes a social field perspective to examine institutional restructuring.
- Compares institutional paths in Austrian and German social services.
- Analyzes the influence of regional, national, and transnational actors.
Main Results:
- Austrian social services exhibit a common wage-setting field, influenced by existing institutions and power dynamics between regional and national actors.
- German social services display fragmented and contested wage-setting institutions due to complex interactions among national, regional, and transnational participants.
Conclusions:
- Institutional paths in social service wage-setting are not uniform, even under similar external pressures.
- Power relations and conflict dynamics are crucial in explaining divergent institutional trajectories in wage setting within the social services sector.
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