Dragos AdascaliteiEuropean Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions | Eurofound
Dragos Adascalitei
Ph.D.
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Publications (39)
Over fifty years ago Andrew Shonfeld wrote a book, Modern Capitalism, which initiated a new field of inquiry about ‘comparative capitalism.’ His focus was the politics of the mixed economy and its national variants. At the basis of that politics was not just a concern with ‘who gets what’ in a static sense, but also how the various hybrid forms of...
Over fifty years ago Andrew Shonfeld wrote a book, Modern Capitalism, which initiated a new field of inquiry about ‘comparative capitalism.’ His focus was the politics of the mixed economy and its national variants. At the basis of that politics was not just a concern with ‘who gets what’ in a static sense, but also how the various hybrid forms of...
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns. Recently, the policy debate surrounding these concerns has become more prominent and has increasingly focused on AI. This report maps relevant Euro...
The COVID-19 pandemic closed or limited many economic activities in 2020, with far-reaching impacts on the labour market. Employment losses at the outset of the pandemic were sharper than those experienced during the global financial crisis. Even greater declines in hours worked arose as a result of the widespread state-supported furloughing of wor...
Using the most recent two waves of the European Working Conditions Survey (2010 and 2015) in a multilevel setting, the paper argues that national institutions have a significant effect on shifts in work intensity. We find that work has intensified in the aftermath of the economic crisis, but that intensification is restricted by labour market regul...
This chapter provides an overview of how labour market reforms have unfolded in Western Europe in the aftermath of the 2007-8 financial crisis. It argues that interrelated processes of liberalisation and deregulation have characterised the direction and content of labour market reforms and that this has increased precarity of labour across advanced...
This report has a twofold aim: first, to examine welfare efforts and (whenever possible) the effectiveness of the Romanian welfare state compared to the European Union's (EU) average; second, to explore and discuss potential directions of change that could improve social protection in Romania. To this end, we adopt the conventional distinction betw...
The East-Central European countries that joined the EU in the 2000s are the unsung success of economic development. This paper discusses the consolidation of an export-led growth model in this region by drawing on an alternative school of thought to Varieties of Capitalism: growth regimes. By focusing on three distinct time periods (2000-2008, 2008...
This article examines how pressures stemming from the structure and dynamics of supply chains shape employment relations at the workplace level. Using qualitative data from two organisational case studies operating within the same supply chain, it highlights that supply chains can constrain or enhance trade unions’ capacity to organise and mobilise...
This report examines the ways in which employers in the retail and hospitality sectors
have responded to the introduction of the National Living Wage (NLW) and subsequent
changes in its level.
The geographical focus of the study comprises two urban sub-regions - Greater
Manchester and Sheffield City Region - that have been identified as being pers...
The paper reviews the literature on employer organisations in Europe. It argues, that although employer organisations have received less attention in the industrial relations literature in comparison to trade unions, casting a broader net onto the comparative political economy literature, reveals important findings regarding the role, strategies, t...
The recent economic and financial crisis has been the most severe economic downturn that the European Union (EU) has faced since its creation. The crisis affected all EU economies, although to different degrees: whereas the Mediterranean and Eastern European countries have been heavily impacted, Continental and Nordic countries succeeded to avoid s...
This article analyses the productive strategy adopted by Renault for its Dacia plant in Romania. It proposes a detailed analysis of the conditions for the success of the Logan project – Renault’s radical approach to the concept of the low-cost automobile. We look into both market- and production-related aspects that have made the Logan work and hig...
Parties emphasis of European themes in their manifestos varies to a great deal between countries. However, except for few papers which present descriptive evidence as to why this happens, there is practically no literature which provides a systematic explanation of the variation in issue emphasis across countries. In this paper, we seek to address...
This article examines the impact of the economic crisis and its aftermath on collective bargaining, by comparing reactions to austerity policies of trade unions in healthcare and education in Romania. We develop an encompassing theoretical framework that links strategies used by trade unions with power resources, costs and union democracy. In a tig...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explain why, in spite having a relatively powerful labour movement at the start of the economic transformation, Romania ended up with a highly deregulated system of industrial relations in the aftermath of the global economic crisis of 2009 and with trade unions which seem incapable to defend their interests...
This article examines the impact of the economic crisis and its aftermath on collective bargaining by comparing reactions to austerity policies of trade unions in healthcare and education sectors in Romania. It develops an encompassing theoretical framework that links strategies used by trade unions with power resources, costs, and union democracy....
This article seeks to explain why, in spite having a relatively powerful labour movement at the start of the economic transformation, Romania ended up with a highly-deregulated system of industrial relations in the aftermath of the global economic crisis of 2009 and with trade unions which seem incapable to defend their interests. We trace the chan...
This chapter analyses pension-privatization strategies and outcomes in two late-reforming countries: the Czech Republic and Romania. Using a set of pairwise comparisons between the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and Romania and Bulgaria, the chapter shows that privatization was initially imported into the region with the help of international actors...
This chapter analyzes pension privatization strategies and outcomes in two late-reforming countries: the Czech Republic and Romania. Using a set of pairwise comparisons between the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and Romania and Bulgaria, the chapter shows that privatization was initially imported into the region with the help of international actors...
The recent economic crisis has thrown many European economies into a period of slow growth and high unemployment. While previous research looked at the impact of the crisis on aggregate indicators of entrepreneurship, not much is known about whether and how it affected individual motivations and efforts to become self-employed. This study aims to f...
The paper analyses the determinants and short-term effects of labour market reforms, using information from a novel policy compendium that covers 110 developed and developing economies between 2008 and 2014. We find that the approval of reforms is positively associated with the unemployment rate, the simultaneous implementation of fiscal consolidat...
In this chapter we analyse the impact the decentralization of industrial
relations had on Romanian trade unions from a multilevel perspective.
We show that their loss of power experienced as a result of the 2011
legislative changes hit all levels of collective bargaining simultaneously. 2
Furthermore, we argue that enterprise-level collective barga...
Attempts to replace pay-as-you-go pension schemes with private funded systems came to a halt in Central and Eastern Europe after 2005. However, more recently, the region has witnessed two belated reformers: the Czech Republic and Romania. Both countries decided to partially privatize pensions despite the rising tide of evidence concerning the chall...
This article investigates a case of successful union organizing in one automotive assembly plant in Romania. The authors argue that in order to explain why the union succeeds in defending workers’ rights there is a need to consider both structural and agency aspects that condition labor’s capacity to effectively defend their interests. The findings...
This article discusses the trajectories of pension system reforms in two of the latecomers to the EU: Bulgaria and Romania. It finds that over the past two decades, the two countries pursued increasingly dissimilar public pension reforms for managing their respective public pay-as-you-go pension systems. Using a political institutionalist theoretic...
In this article, we present information from a unique database of labour market reforms implemented in 111 developed and developing countries between 2008 and 2014. We show that the number of reforms implemented each year has gradually increased and that the majority of reforms were passed in advanced economies – with EU member states being particu...
The welfare states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have undergone massive changes since the beginning of the 1990s. This paper reviews the literature on welfare state development in CEE in light of the theories that have been used to study advanced capitalist democracies. Its purpose is to critically assess the extent to which different theorie...
Projects
Projects (5)
The SODITREC project (https//:soditrec.eu/) is funded by the European Commission (CE VP/2018/004/0021). The SODITREC Consortium brings together five public research institutions from different EU Member States (UNIOVI-Spain; RUB-Germany; SNSPA-Romania; USFD-UK; SGH-Poland) and two associate partners (ETUI-Belgium; IGM-Germany). The SODITREC project will achieve impact by providing a comprehensive understanding of company-level social dialogue in the EU. We expect to significantly contribute to knowledge relating to the strengthening of social dialogue in highly relevant economic transformations at EU company level. We will also make recommendations relating to industrial relations structures and practices which are at the core of the EU corporate decision-making model.
Looks at developments in the Romanian system of industrial relations since the 1990s by focusing on the power resources that various actors use to defend their interests. Focusses on different levels of representation and discusses the factors that have contributed to successes and failures of organised labour in Romania.
