The European Semester in the North and in the South: Domestic Politics and the Salience of EU-Induced Wage Reform in Different Growth Models

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dc.contributor.authorD'Erman, Valerie J.
dc.contributor.authorSchulz, Daniel F.
dc.contributor.authorVerdun, Amy
dc.contributor.authorZagermann, Dennis
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-11T23:09:41Z
dc.date.available2022-03-11T23:09:41Z
dc.date.copyright2022en_US
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractMacro-economic policy coordination remains a challenge in the EU. The European Semester was designed to help facilitate more coordination. In the area of wage policies, it encourages Germany and the Netherlands to support stronger wage growth, while Italy and Portugal have been told to exercise wage restraint. This paper analyses how domestic interest group politics influence how EU recommendations are received. Reflecting on the different growth models that underpin these four countries, we find that country-specific recommendations meet country-specific obstacles – independent of whether recommendations aim at increasing or reducing wages. Specifically, we observe that domestic actors successfully mobilize against EU recommendations that go against the interests of their constituencies, but are less effective in mobilizing for recommendations aligning with their interests. Hence, we submit that high salience of EU influence poses an obstacle for EU-induced reform in the South while low salience limits EU influence in the North.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis article was supported in part by a Jean Monnet Network entitled “The Politics of the European Semester: EU Coordination and Domestic Political Institutions (EUROSEM)” Agreement number: 600110-EPP-1-2018-1-CA-EPPJMO-NETWORK (Grant agreement nr 2018-1359), with the support of the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.en_US
dc.identifier.citationD'Erman, V. J., Schulz, D. F., Verdun, A., and Zagermann, D. (2022) The European Semester in the North and in the South: Domestic Politics and the Salience of EU-Induced Wage Reform in Different Growth Models. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 60(Special Issue): 21– 39. DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13274en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13274
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/13796
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studiesen_US
dc.subjectCountry-Specific Recommendationsen_US
dc.subjectdomestic politicsen_US
dc.subjectEuropean Semesteren_US
dc.subjectgrowth modelsen_US
dc.subjectmacro-economic policy coordinationen_US
dc.titleThe European Semester in the North and in the South: Domestic Politics and the Salience of EU-Induced Wage Reform in Different Growth Modelsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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