In the shadow of hierarchy: minimum wage commissions in the UK and Germany

IF 3.2 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Socio-Economic Review Pub Date : 2023-05-19 DOI:10.1093/ser/mwad027

D. Mabbett

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Abstract

The adoption of statutory minimum wages (MWs) has been accompanied by institutional innovations in the relationship between governments, employers and unions. In the UK and Germany, MW commissions were created to recommend or determine the MW. Their memberships are dominated by trade unionists and employers. Structures that engage the social partners ‘in the shadow of hierarchy’ can be efficient as well as politically expedient. They will be stable if, first, the social partners can establish a consensual basis for decisions and, second, this consensus position is near enough to the government’s position not to trigger intervention. The first condition has been met but not the second: both in the UK and Germany, governments have overridden employers and unions in order to introduce higher MWs. The article explores why this has happened and draws out the implications for MW fixing and the stability of shadow-of-hierarchy arrangements.

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在等级制度的阴影下:英国和德国的最低工资委员会

在采用法定最低工资的同时，政府、雇主和工会之间的关系也进行了制度创新。在英国和德国，成立了兆瓦委员会来推荐或确定兆瓦。他们的会员主要是工会会员和雇主。让社会伙伴“在等级制度的阴影下”参与的结构可能是高效的，也是政治上的权宜之计。如果，首先，社会伙伴能够建立一个共识的决策基础，其次，这个共识的立场足够接近政府的立场，不触发干预，它们将是稳定的。第一个条件已得到满足，但第二个条件尚未得到满足:在英国和德国，政府都凌驾于雇主和工会之上，以引入更高的最低工资。本文探讨了发生这种情况的原因，并得出了对MW修复和层次阴影安排稳定性的影响。

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