Lönebildning i verkligheten
Karlson, N., Lindberg, H. M., Stern, L., Lundqvist, T. & Larsson, A.-S. (2014). Lönebildning i verkligheten – Kollektivavtalens effekter på företagens lönesättning och utvecklingskraft. Stockholm: Ratio.
Karlson, N., Lindberg, H. M., Stern, L., Lundqvist, T. & Larsson, A.-S. (2014). Lönebildning i verkligheten – Kollektivavtalens effekter på företagens lönesättning och utvecklingskraft. Stockholm: Ratio.
Hur sätts lönerna i olika branscher och företag? Hur styrande är kollektivavtalen? Vilken effekt har centraliseringsgraden, märket och individgarantierna? Används lönesättning som strategiskt verktyg? Vilka konsekvenser har detta för företagens utvecklingskraft och de anställdas löneutveckling?
I Lönebildning i verkligheten redovisas ny forskning om kollektivavtalens effekter på företagens lönesättning och utvecklingskraft, ett område där det tidigare saknats empiriska studier. Undersökningen baseras dels på kvalitativa fallstudier av 27 företag i olika storlekar och branscher, dels på en stor kvantitativ studie, baserad på unika data, av företag i privat sektor i Sverige. En viktig slutsats är att det finns en stor utvecklingspotential vad gäller lagstiftning, avtalskonstruktioner och olika aktörers synsätt. Mycket talar för att Sverige, svenska företag och deras anställda skulle tjäna på en modernisering av dagens modell för lönebildning och lönesättning.
Boken vänder sig till alla som arbetar med, eller vill arbeta med lönesättning och löneförhandlingar – chefer, HR-experter, fackliga representanter och arbetsgivare, men även studenter, lärare och forskare.
Karlson, N., Lindberg, H. M., Stern, L., Lundqvist, T. & Larsson, A.-S.
2014
2024
Lexington Books.
The motivation for Sociology and Classical Liberalism in Dialogue: Freedom is Something We Do Together is based on two observations: first, sociology as a field is populated with scholars on the left and second, (few but still) classical liberals and libertarian scholars are found in neighboring social science fields, such as economics, political science, and political philosophy. Can scholarship benefit if sociology and classical liberal ideas are in dialogue? To answer the question, the book gathers sociologists, criminologists, demographers, and political scientists that care about classical liberal ideas, or are willing to engage their sociological thinking with classical liberal ideas. Not all authors would identify themselves as classical liberals. These contributors discuss sociological topics through the lens of classical liberalism, asking how issues such as class, gender, or race relations can be viewed with a different perspective. Chapters also delve into the intersection of sociology and classical liberalism, exploring where viewpoints conflict and where they align.
2024
Palgrave Macmillan Cham.
How can we fight back against the populist threat to liberty, free markets, and the open society?
This open access book by Nils Karlson explores the strategies used by left- and right-wing populists to make populism intelligible, recognizable, and contestable. Karlson argues that to fight back requires the revival of liberalism itself by defending and developing the liberal institutions, the liberal spirit, liberal narratives, and liberal statecraft. The book presents a synthesized explanatory model for how populists promote autocratization through the deliberate polarization of society and traces the ideational roots of the core populist ideas that form a collectivistic identity politics. Written within the tradition of political theory and institutional economics, this book uses a wide variety of sources, including results and analyses from social psychology, ethics, law, and history.
The book is open source and can be downloaded through the link below.
2022
Economic and Industrial Democracy.
Sweden’s institutionalized employment protection legislation, ‘LAS’, is interesting theoretically because parts of it are semi-coercive. The semi-coerciveness makes it possible for firms and unions under collective agreements to negotiate departures from the law. Thus, the law is more flexible than the legal text suggests. The present study explores intended and unintended consequences of LAS as experienced by managers of smaller manufacturing companies. The results suggest that managers support the idea of employment protection in principle but face a difficult balancing act in dealing with LAS. From their point of view, the legislation’s institutional legitimacy is low, producing local cultures of hypocrisy and pretense. The article gives insights into how institutions aimed at specific, intended behavior sometimes end up producing unintended consequences fostering the opposite.
The article in total can be read here.