A Policy of Consensus. The Austrian Experience.

Steindl, Josef

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Collection:: Josef Steindl Collection

Title:: A Policy of Consensus. The Austrian Experience.

Author:: Steindl, Josef

Scope:: Konvolut bestehend aus Typoskript, 4 Blätter mit handschriftlichen Anmerkungen und Anstreichungen sowie 2 Blätter mit handschriftlichen Notizen, insgesamt 6 Blätter geheftet

Year of publication:: ohne Datum

Language:: English

Description:: Einfluss der Sozialpartnerschaft auf die österreichische Wirtschaftspolitik, Löhne und Konjunkturentwicklung.

Subject:: Österreich Machtverteilung Sozialpartnerschaft Lohnentwicklung Konjunktur Wirtschaftspolitik Strukturwandel

Note:: Entstanden nach 1983. - Unveröffentlichtes Typoskript.

JEL Classification:: J58 [Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: Public Policy] O52 [Economywide Country Studies: Europe]

Shelfmark:: S/M.45.2

Access:: Free access

A Policy of Consensus. The Austrian Experience. The Austrian experience commands a certain interest in that it was successful in keeping unemployment low (at about 2 p.c.), with moderate inflation, in a hostile world: Hostile in so far as it tolerated low growth and high unemployment rates (Austrian growth rates were about 1 p.c. higher than OECD rates on the average) This is usually attributed to incomes policy. The characteristic instrument of this policy is an informal co-operation between certain powerful organisations which represent the main economic interests in the country: The Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Agriculture, the Chamber of Labour and the Federation of Trade Unions. They correspond to a tradition of organising economic interests in fairly exclusive bodies with a disciplined membership. Membership in the above mentioned chambers (not in the T.U.'s) is mandatory, and the chambers have a semi official character. The organisation is on federal basis, but the central direction is strong. These bodies played a decisive part in shaping economic policy from the first moment of the reconstituted republic after the war. They were reformed more quickly than the official administration. In 1957 the quadripartite Committee for Price and Wage Problems was founded; it was chaired by the Fed.

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