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Work in times of crisis and changing employment relations
Paris, November 19, 2013
Michel Husson
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A three-level crisis1. A debt crisis
• The true aim of fiscal austerity is to validate excessive “drawing rights” on the surplus value that the crisis has potentially cancelled. In a nutshell: the fictitious wealth that was not extracted by means of exploitation in the past will be guaranteed in the future by means of fiscal cuts.
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A three-level crisis 2. A crisis of the "euro-system"• The mainstream analysis is that an excessive
wage growth has led to a loss of competitiveness for the "South" countries (Spain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal). These countries should therefore restore their competitiveness by means of an "internal devaluation", ie a wage austerity.
• This analysis is wrong, because the wage share has nowhere increased in the euro area before the crisis.
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Wages and crisis
A macroeconomic approach
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1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
France
Portugal
Greece
Italy
Germany
Spain
before the crisis: constant or decliningcrisis
phase 1:increase
crisisphase 2:
fall
Wage shares
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Unit labour cost, price and wage shareGreece 2000-2010
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“Assessing the Links Between Wage Setting, Competitiveness, and Imbalances”European Commission Note for the Economic Policy Committee , 2011
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If there is a relation between unitary labour costs and export performance, it is weak and of a secondary order of magnitude (…) and hence the former cannot be the cause of the latter.European Commission, European Competitiveness Report 2010.
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Less wages more competitiveness?
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NO ! Recession less imports less trade deficit
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Absurd?
fiscal austerity more debt less growth
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A three-level crisis:3. A crisis of capitalist profitability
Profit rate in the eurozone
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Profit share: variation 2007-2012 Unemployment rate: variation 2007-2012Austerity: fiscal impulse 2010-2012
Rational austerity
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The cuts in wages increase the profit margins,not competitiveness
Sources : Eurostat, National statistics offices, European Commission,Odile Chagny, « La nouvelle gouvernance européenne des salaires », 2013
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Exporters’ profit margins increase in the peripheryExport prices/Unitary Labour Costs in the manufacturing sector
Sources : European Commission,Odile Chagny, « La nouvelle gouvernance européenne des salaires », 2013
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The impact of the crisis
on (un)employment
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The double dip of employment
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September 2013Euro area unemployment rate at
12.2%EU28 at 11.0%
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Unemployment
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* Ronald Janssen, Social Europe Journal, 05/02/2013
Unemployment: Just the Tip of the Iceberg*
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Part-time jobs EU27
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The job finding rate: almost continuously falling in the euro area
Source: Commission Services based on Eurostat data
Job finding rate: probability that an unemployed person finds a job within the next monthJob separation rate: probability that an employed person loses her job in the next month
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Long-term unemployment: increasingJobless rate for 1 year or more
Source: Commission Services based on Eurostat data
Job finding rate: probability that an unemployed person finds a job within the next monthJob separation rate: probability that an employed person loses her job in the next month
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A potential additional labour force of 11 million (EU27 2012) Among the economically inactive population (neither employed nor unemployed), there were 8.8 million persons available to work, but not seeking and 2.3 million seeking work, but not available. A potential additional labour force: 4.6% of the labour force.
Source: Eurostat, Labour Force Survey
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Discouragement effects (workers available to work but not seeking,
% of inactive population)
Source: Eurostat Labour Force Survey
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Working time
and employment
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Cumulative change in GDP, number of employees and average hours worked per employee, Euro area
Source: Eurostat, National Accounts
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GermanyThe components of the reduction of annual hours worked in 2009
Source: IAB
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Working time and employment (cumulative changes 2008Q1-2013Q2)
Source: Eurostat, National accounts
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Structural reforms
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The mainstream (“neoliberal”) theory of unemployment
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European Commission Staff Assessment of the 2012 National Reform Programme
and Stability Programme for Greece
• Nevertheless, it is expected that the structural reforms, particularly those in the labour market, the liberalisation of several sectors and a number of measures to improve the business environment, should help promote competition, spur productivity, increase employment and reduce production costs, thus contributing to an increase in employment and limiting poverty and social exclusion in the medium term.
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Fiscal adjustment and “structural reforms”: more of the least
FISCAL ADJUSTMENT •cuts in public spending and public sector wages•unfair tax increase (VAT)
SHRINKING THE WELFARE STATE •reduction of unemployment benefits •reduction of social benefits •privatising public pension schemes
LABOUR MARKET FLEXIBILITY•reduction of minimum wages: a ‘minimal’ minimum wage’•weakening of collective bargaining institutions•deregulating labour laws
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Wage Bargaining Framework:employment-friendly reforms
decrease minimum wages
decrease the bargaining coverage or (automatic) extension of collective agreements.
reform the bargaining system in a less centralized way, for instance by
•removing or limiting the "favourability principle"
•introducing/extending the possibility to derogate from higher level agreements
•negotiate firm-level agreements.
overall reduction in the wagesetting power of trade unions.
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New types of contract (*) in particular for young people (**) countries with a Memorandum of Understanding with the Troika (EU, IMF, ECB)
Source: “The crisis and national labour law reforms”, ETUI Working Paper 2012.04
Changes announced and/or adopted to industrial relations, collective bargaining systems and certain aspects of labour law
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Impact of Labour Market Reformsin the Euro Periphery
“Fiscal Consolidation in the Euro Area: How Much Can Structural Reforms Ease the Pain?” Derek Anderson, Benjamin Hunt, Stephen Snudden, IMF Working Paper, October 2013
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Tenuous link: labour market institutions and unemployment
Sabina Avdagic and Paola Salardi “Tenuous link: labour market institutions and unemployment”Socio-Economic Review (2013) 11
International organizations and mainstream economists have consistently promoted the view that labour market rigidities are responsible for high unemployment, and that wide-ranging institutional deregulation is an appropriate policy response.
Yet, as demonstrated by recent literature, the empirical support for the deregulatory view is ambiguous.
We find rather thin support for the deregulatory view.
Overall, our findings challenge the policy orthodoxy that comprehensive deregulation is the universal solution to unemployment.
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A three-level crisis:3. A crisis of capitalist profitability
Profit rate in the eurozone
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Grey shades of forecasts
Source: IMF
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Two working hypothesis
1. the objective of structural reforms is to restore profits
2. the crisis is a turning point that will lead to fundamental changes in job status and labour relations