Minimum Wages, Collective Bargaining and Economic Development in Asia and Europe, 2015 A Labour Perspective

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

Karamat Ali Executive Director, Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER), Karachi, Pakistan. Kristin Alsos Researcher, FAFO Institute for Labour and Social Research, Oslo, Norway. Reinhard Bispinck Head 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 Bolsheva PhD candidate, St-Petersburg State University; policy and campaign officer, Building Wood Workers International (BWI), Moscow, Russia. Bela Galgoczi Senior researcher, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Brussels, Belgium. Dang Quang Dieu Member of Presidium of Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) and member of VGCL Scientific Council, Hanoi, Vietnam. Dong Thi Thuong Hien PhD fellow, Institute for Work, Skills and Training (IAQ) and Institute of Sociology (IfS), University of Duisburg Essen, Germany. Line Eldring Senior Researcher, FAFO Institute for Labour and Social Research, Oslo, Norway. Bela Galgoczi Senior researcher, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Brussels. Elena Gerasimova Associate 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, Russia Denis Gregory (editor) Director, Trade Union Research Unit (TURU), Ruskin College, Oxford, UK. Rupert Griffin Associate, Mercer Talent, Melbourne, Australia; formerlyresearcher at Incomes Data Services (IDS), London, UK. Hansjörg Herr Professor of Supranational Economic Integration, Department of Business and Economics Berlin School of Economics and Law / Global Labour University (GLU), Berlin, Germany. Zeenat Hissam Researcher, Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER), Karachi, Pakistan Yongjian Hu Professor, School of Economics of the Tianjin University of Finance and Economics of China, Tianjin, China. Michel Husson Senior researcher, Institut de Recherches Economique