The Annual Conference of the WAGE Network "Wage, labour market and globalisation: from Cold War to European Union – in Central and Eastern Europe"

Location: West University of Timisoara, Room A11 - 4, V. Parvan Street, Timisoara, Romania

Date : 10th – 11th of October 2019

The conference aims to establish a kind of inventory of the past forty years for the labour market in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe to cover: the initial situation (centrally planned wage strategy, mono‐syndicalism), the succession of reforms (political and economic liberalization, privatizations,
accession to the EU) and the current results (differential wage increases, employment situation, labour disputes, role of skills, union action).

Thursday 10th of October 2019

Mariko Ouchi (International Labour Organization): Global Wage Report 2018/19, What lies behind gender pay gaps

Nataša Simeunović Bajić (University of Niš): Journalists' Low Wage as a Discourse - The case study of Local Media in Serbia

Stéphane Callens (Université d'Artois): Les bas salaires en Europe. Implanter le socle du SMIC

Julia Novacescu (University of Management, Craiova): Main Factors that influence Customer Satisfaction in Automotive Industry

András Tóth and Eszter Bartha (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): The Changing World of Labour and Workers' Political Choices in Hungary

Friday, 11th of October 2019

Michel-Pierre CHELINI (Université d’Artois): Wages in the East part of Germany, from the GDR to the German "new Länder”(1980-2020), a final convergence?

Alexandru Jivan & Miruna-Lucia Năchescu (West University of Timisoara): Productivity, Service and Reward in a Servicized Knowledge Society

Simona Ilie (The Research Institute for Quality of Life): Wage Differentals in Post-Communist Romania

Ion Imbrescu (West University of Timisoara): How desirable is State Intervention in Labor Market? Some Evidences from Romania