Industrial relations and labour market policies in Ireland, Portugal and Slovenia : from institutional diversity to policy similarity?

Hočevar, Marko (author)

The article explores three countries with different industrial relations institutions: Ireland, Portugal and Slovenia. It focuses on the trajectories these countries have taken since the mid/late 1980s and compares the developments in their respective industrial relations systems, the role of their tripartite social dialogue bodies, and labour market policies. The article reveals similarities among the countries in their pursuit of industrial relations liberalisation and greater labour market flexibility. However, it also shows an opposite movement in these countries since 2015 and provides an explanation for these developments. The article thereby contributes to the different discussions in the field of comparative political economy dealing with the varieties of capitalism, institutional convergence and divergence, and the neoliberalisation of different industrial relations systems.

• Language: English
• Keywords: varieties of capitalism, politics, EU, industrial relations, labour markets, European union
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2024
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 623-647
• Numbering: Letn. 61, št. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-164645
• UDC: 331.107
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• DOI: 10.51936/tip.61.3.623
• COBISS.SI-ID: 210292483
• Publication date in RUL: 06.11.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Industrijski odnosi in politike trga dela na irskem, portugalskem in v Sloveniji

Abstract

Članek raziskuje tri države z različnimi institucijami industrijskih odnosov: Irsko, Portugalsko in Slovenijo. Osredotoča se na poti, ki so jih te države ubrale od sredine do poznih 80. let prejšnjega stoletja, in primerja razvoj njihovih sistemov industrijskih odnosov, vlogo njihovih tripartitnih organov za socialni dialog in politik trga dela. Članek razkriva razlike in podobnosti med državami v prizadevanjih za liberalizacijo industrijskih odnosov in večjo prožnost trga dela. Vendar pa pokaže tudi nasprotno gibanje v teh državah od leta 2015 ter ponudi razlago teh procesov. Članek s tem prispeva k različnim razpravam na področju primerjalne politične ekonomije, ki obravnavajo različice kapitalizma, institucionalno konvergenco in divergenco ter neoliberalizacijo različnih sistemov industrijskih odnosov.

• Keywords: različice kapitalizma, politika, industrijski odnosi, trg delovne sile, EU, Evropska unija

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: Z5-3221-2021
• Name: Spreminjajoča se vloga države: država in politike zaposlovanja v kontekstu krize COVID-19