Minimum Wage Regimes: Statutory Regulation, Collective Bargaining and Adequate Levels

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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Minimum wage regimes in Europe and selected developing countries
2. Minimum wages and the multiple functions of wages
PART I: Actors’ strategies influencing collective bargaining and minimum wage regulations at national level in European countries
	3. Securing wage floors in the absence of a statutory minimum wage: Minimum wage regulations in Scandinavia facing low-wage competition
	4. Minimum wages in Southern Europe: Regulation and reconfiguration under the shadow of hierarchy
	5. Shaping minimum wages in Central and Eastern Europe: Giving up collective bargaining in favour of legal regulation?
PART II: The combined effects of minimum wages and collective bargaining in different sectors
	6. The interplay of minimum wages and collective bargaining in Germany: How and why does it vary across sectors?
	7. Downward convergence between negotiated wages and the minimum wage: The case of the Netherlands
	8. The SMIC as a driver for collective bargaining: The interplay of collective bargaining and minimum wage in France
PART III: The minimum wage beyond Europe: An accomplishment or an alternative to collective bargaining?
	9. Minimum wages in Indonesia: Informality, politics and weak trade unions in a large middle-income country
	10. Are minimum wages for textile and garment industry workers effective? A sector-in-country institutionalist approach for five developing countries
	11. Minimum wages and inequality mitigation in post-dictatorship industrial relations systems in Latin America: The case of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay
PART IV: Conclusion: Lessons for theory and practice
	12. Conclusion: Understanding the multiple interactions between institutions of minimum wages and industrial relations
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