Name of the project |
COLBAR |
Project title |
EUROPE-wide analyses of COLlective BARgaining agreements |
Funded by |
European Commission - Social Dialogue Program - Improving expertise in the field of industrial relations - VS/2019/0077 |
Duration |
1/4/2019 - 31/3/2021 |
Aim of the project |
The overall objective of COLBAR-EUROPE is to improve knowledge about industrial relations and social dialogue, specifically about the content of Collective Agreements in Europe. lt aims to undertake research activities to enhance the collection of comparative information on collective bargaining outcomes in EU Member States and Candidate Countries and at European level. Collective bargaining is key for wage setting and working conditions, but very little is known about what exactly is agreed. Few countries code agreements, but most countries are lacking such overviews, and databases for cross-country comparisons are absent. Since 2014 however associate partner Wagelndicator maintains a database with full text, annotated, and coded Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs), using a standard coding scheme. ln BARCOM (VS/2016/0106), the Action's predecessor, 120 agreements from the commerce sector from 23 countries were successfully analysed. Social partners expressed their interest in getting for the first time ever insights into the content of Collective Agreements. COLBAR-EUROPE aims to deepen these insights by adding more than 500 agreements plus 25 Transnational Agreements to the CBA Database, now covering commerce, manufacturing, construction and public sectors for EU28 plus 5 candidate countries. Using the coded data of the agreements, the Action's reports will focus on comparisons across industries, on public versus private sector agreements, on wage setting, on trade-offs in the wider bargaining agenda, on possible convergence of agreements concluded by various daughters of the same multinational company or that are related to Transnational Agreements. The Action will also prepare reports about agreements in the Visegrad countries, ltaly, the Netherlands, and Spain. The reports will be presented at the Main Event in Amsterdam, for which bargaining negotiators from the 33 countries, social partners and other stakeholders will be invited. |
Countries |
EU28 + 5 Associate countries - (Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey) |
Lead partner |
University of Amsterdam/AIAS |
Key actors |
Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI), Bratislava |
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National Council for Economics and Labour (C.N.E.L.), Rome |
Associate partners |
ETUI, Brussels |
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UNI Europa, Brussels |
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WageIndicator Foundation, Amsterdam |
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Solidarność, Katowice; Solidarność, Gdansk |
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CCOO Servicios, Madrid |
Newsletter |
- First 25 agreements coded for COLBAR project (07/23/2019)
- COLBAR kicks off in Visegrad region (10/17/2019)
- Mid-term COLBAR meeting in Amsterdam coming up (01/15/2020)
- COLBAR: 142 Collective Agreements Uploaded in 2020 (04/08/2020)
- COLBAR's Steady Progress: Only 96 Collective Agreements Left (07/08/2020)
- Final Stretch: Only 42 Collective Agreements Left (10/07/2020)
- Join the Final COLBAR Conference on 25 February (01/13/2021)
- COLBAR is Wrapping Up, Thank You for Participating (04/07/2021)
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Presentations |
Collectively Bargained Pay Inequality", presentation of Janna Besamusca, University of Amsterdam, at the SASE conference, 21 July 2020 |
Publications |
- Tijdens, K.G., Besamusca, J., Ceccon, D., Cetrulo, A., van Klaveren, M., Medas, G., & Szüdi, G. (2022). Comparing the Content of Collective Agreements across the European Union: Is Europe-wide Data Collection Feasible? E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies, Volume 11 No. 02/2022. [EN]
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Kick Off Meeting Amsterdam April 29/30 2019 |
Research Objectives - Kea Tijdens & Wike Been
Collective Agreement database - Daniela Ceccon
Collective Agreements Italy - Prof. Claudio Lucifora
Collective Agreements Spain - Carles Catala
Collective Agreements Poland - Slawomir Adamczyk
Collective Agreements the Netherlands - Wike Been
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Kick Off Meeting Bratislava, October 9, 2019 |
Project introduction on the WageIndicator database of collective agreements; the largest Collective Agreement data base in the world (Paulien Osse, Wage Indicator director) |
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Content of collective agreements in Visegrad countries – analysis and preliminary findings from BARCOM/COLBAR project (Gabor Szudi, CELSI data analyst) |
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Collective bargaining in Slovakia – characteristics and trends (Monika Martiskova, CELSI researcher) |
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Collective bargaining in Hungary – characteristics and trends (Szilvia Borbely, freelance researcher) |
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The Austrian online databank of collective agreements (Paul Schwab, ÖGB-Verlag editor) |
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Planned Eurofound project on data on collective agreements (Matthias Rasche, Eurofound data officer) |
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Open discussion on the current state and future needs of available comparable information on collective agreements in the Visegrad region – Moderated by Paulien Osse (WageIndicator director) |
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Mid Term Meeting COLBAR - Zoom / Amsterdam - 26/27 March 2020 |
Agenda 26/27 March 2020, meeting. |
Final Conference COLBAR - Zoom - 25 February 2021 |
Agenda 25 February 2021 - Comparing the bargaining agendas in manufacturing, construction, commerce, public sector across Europe |
Video's |
1. Snapshot Colbar Project - 2. Collective Agreements in Europe, a Comparison - 3. Analysing the Collective Agreements through Machine Learning |
Final Reports |
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Report 1 |
One-page-one-country reports with basic descriptive data from the agreements database for 33 countries |
Report 2 |
Clauses And Patterns Within And Across Countries In Four Sectors In Europe - Manufacturing, Construction, Commerce, Public Sector By Kea Tijdens, WageIndicator Foundation |
Report 3 |
Collective Bargaining Agreements In The Visegrad Countries By Gábor Szüdi - Central European Labour Studies Institute |
Report 4 |
Collective Bargaining In The Netherlands - Manufacturing, Construction, Commerce And The Public Sector By Niels Jansen (English)
Collectieve Onderhandelingen In Nederland - Industrie, Bouw, Handel En De Publieke Sector By Niels Jansen (Dutch)
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Report 5 |
National Collective Bargaining Agreements in Italy: An Investigation on Wages and Remote Working* By Armanda Cetrulo - Institute of Economics & EMbeDS, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa (English)
Accordi Collettivi Nazionali In Italia: Un'indagine Su Salari E Lavoro A Distanza By Armanda Cetrulo - Institute of Economics & EMbeDS, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa
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Report 6 |
Contents And Characteristics Of The Spanish Collective Bargaining Agreements By Gabriele Medas and Daniela Ceccon, WageIndicator Foundation and University of Amsterdam (English)
Contenidos y características del español acuerdos colectivos de negociacion By Gabriele Medas and Daniela Ceccon, WageIndicator Foundation and University of Amsterdam (Spanish)
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Report 7 |
Collectively Agreed Wages In Europe By Janna Besamusca, University of Amsterdam |
Report 8 |
The Wider Bargaining Agenda With A Specific Focus On The Trade-Off Between Clauses By Kea Tijdens, WageIndicator Foundation |
Report 9 |
Transnational Company Agreements By Maarten van Klaveren and Kea Tijdens, WageIndicator Foundation |
Report 10 |
Feasibility Of A Europe-Wide Data Collection Of Collective Agreements By Kea Tijdens, WageIndicator Foundation |
Report 11 |
Report About The Final Event By Aakash Bothra and Niels Peuchen |
Overview of COLBAR pages in national WageIndicator websites. |
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