Béla Galgóczi

Senior researcher

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Bio/Description

His interest has always been the world around. Started from a very distant perspective/physics, astronomy/narrowed his focus step by step with the years passed by. Through philosophy and sociology he finally touched the ground by turning to economy and society. Finishing the second university in Budapest coincided with quick changes in the society/Hungary in the economic, political turnover in the second half of the 80-s/. Staring work at research institutes in Hungary, the focus of his attention was the transforming economy and society with deep structural change and its social implications. The changing world of labour, enterprise restructuring, the integration of the Hungarian economy into Europe and the world markets. The attention was broadened to Europe, first with monitoring German unification through collaborating with various German research institutes in the East and the West. His interest in the last couple of years is the unified Europe in a global environment. How Central Eastern European countries find their place in Europe and how the new extended Europe will look like. How the European Social Model would survive in the new framework conditions. Focus topics are economic and social convergence, wage developments, collective bargaining, restructuring and workers participation. How Europe gets redefined on the level of enterprises and in the world of labour without giving up its basic values.

Last modified: 06/10/2006 12:17 pm

CV

Born 1958 in Hungary
Graduate in electronical engineering (1982) at the Technical University of Budapest, then in sociology and philosophy (1986) of the University of Sciences Budapest, postgraduate course in political sciences at the University of Amsterdam (1990), PhD in Economics 1994 (Hungarian Academy of Sciences);

1987-2002	Researcher at several Hungarian research institutes (Trade Union Research Institute, Research Institute for Economic and Social Studies, Institute for Privatisation Studies ? research director)
1996-97, 1999-2000	Economic advisor at various Hungarian Ministries
April 2003 -	Senior research officer at the ETUI

Projects

ViVe II - Vice-versa effects on European industrial relations from the functioning of EWC's in the new member states

Information and consultation is a cornerstone of EU social policy. With the accession of the new countries to the EU from May 2004 the European legislation concerning workers' participation became effective.

Referring to the results of a previous ViVe project conducted by ETUI-R the current project aims to analyse the functioning of the EWC's with regard to their role and meaning in trans-national restructuring. The study will focus on impacts of exercising EWC's in subsidiaries of multinational companies specifically in Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. Special concern will be devoted on EWC`s originated in the NMS as e.g. MOL (HU).

Macroeconomic Framework for Sustainable Employment Growth in the Acceeding Countries

The major goal of the European Employment Pact is to diminish unemployment in a sustainable way and to develop a suitable policy mix through macro-economic dialogue. This presumes the co-ordination of fiscal and monetary policies, wage development processes under the framework of price stability with an overall aim to facilitate employment growth.
This proved to be a very ambitious target even for the present member states.

Social dumping and the European social model

In connection with the fact finding analysis based on statistics on productivity levels and wage levels in CEEC-s /(which is missing from all available statistical sources so far), also differentiating according the 'whole economy', 'industry', and 'manufacturing'/ linked to the 'relocation' project, we conduct the analysis further and deepen it with a view to the European Social Model (ESM).

Relocation (of enterprises) in the context of an enlarged EU

Relocation of enterprises from the West to the East of Europe is in the centre of current debates, on political level, in the media, in trade union circles and among researchers. The debates are often loaded with emotions and biased on basis of local and actual conflicts of interests.

COBAN

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Nowadays, European co-ordination of collective bargaining (CB) is not any longer a trade union demand without no practical effect. It became step by step more reality mostly in European Industry Federations. ETUI-REHS has contributed to this progress by preparing and conducting the annually collective bargaining report together with EMCEF covering their sectors.

The Impact of the EU Legal Framework on Worker's Participation Practices

In line with the ETUC Action Program on "Expanding and Reinforcing the area of European Industrial Relations" (3) with a view to "Information, consultation and worker participation for managing change" (d) in co-operation with European Industry Federations (EMF and EMCEF) the project is focusing on the way as workers' participation practices will develop in the acceeding CEE countries at the backround of the relevant EU legislation and how these practises will have a feed-back to the European Social Model.

Collective Bargaining in Europe 2006

The ETUI-REHS collective bargaining report is a yearly publication of the Institute. The 2006 issue will again give an overview of the state of the art of collective bargaining.

Contacts

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ETUI-REHS Research
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Phone: +32 (0) 2 224 04 92

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Publications

We are updating the list of the publications. Please come back in a few weeks.

Collective bargaining in Europe 2003/2004

ETUI warns of the dangers of concessional bargaining in the EU-15 and welcomes unfolding wage dynamism in the New Member States.

What price the euro?

How are the policy choices related to euro adoption by the new central and eastern European (CEE) member states made? To what extent are they formulated in public debate and through national social dialogue? And what is the potential impact of euro-zone accession on aspects such as economic growth, wages, social protection and employment growth? These are the central questions addressed by this volume which presents in-depth analysis of the current situation in each of the new CEE member states, as well as an introductory and comparative overview.

Länderstudie: Ungarn, Querschnittanalyse: Privatisierung in Ost-Mittel-Europa, in: Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Gewerkschaften in Mittel-und Osteuropa ? Europahandbuch für Arbeitnehmer, (ed. Lecher, Optenhögel), Bund Verlag Köln, 1995.
Problems of Corporate Governance at Privatised Firms in Hungary, In: Central- Eastern European Working Papers (ed. Marvin Jackson), LICOS, Leuven, Belgium 1995.
German-Hungarian Industrial Co-operations (study made for IFO Institute München), Institute for Privatisation Studies, Budapest 1996.
Social Costs of the Transformation in ?Visegrád countries?, study made for ?Institut Arbeit und Technik? Gelsenkirchen, 1996.
Employee Chances to take part in the privatization process in Hungary, empirical study made for ILO, Geneva, March, 1996.
Industrial Change in Central Eastern Europe, Phare/ACE research project, (co-ordinator: Katolieke Universiteit Leuven), 1998.
Restructuring of three key branches of industry, Phare/ACE research project, (co-ordinator: Marvin Jackson, Katolieke Universiteit Leuven), 1999.
Industrial Relations in Central Eastern Europe in the Perspective of EU Enlargement In: Transnational Industrial Relations in Europe, ed.:Rainer Hoffmann, Otto Jacobi, Hans Böckler Stiftung, Düsseldorf, 2000.
Die Lage der Gewerkschaften in Ungarn, Magazin Ost-West Gegeninformationen, (ed. Johann Gaisbacher), Graz, Austria, 2001.
Galgoczi, B. ?The social and economic dimension of EU enlargement?, in Beyond enlargement: Trade, Business and Investment in a Changing Europe, United Nations, New York and Geneva,2003.
Galgoczi, B. 'The process of wage catching up in the future member states and candidate countries at the light of recent experiences', in Papeles del Este, Madrid, 2003.
Galgoczi, B. 'The social and economic dimension of EU enlargement', in Beyond enlargement: Trade, Business and Investment in a Changing Europe, United Nations, New York and Geneva,2003.
Galgoczi, B. 'The process of wage catching up in the future member states and candidate countries at the light of recent experiences', in Papeles del Este, Madrid, 2003.
Galgoczi, B. and Kluge, N. (2003): Pragmatische Multis, Mitbestimmung, 4/2003
Galgoczi, B. and Mermet E.: "Wages developments in candidate countries", Transfer, 1/2003
Galgoczi, B. 'The social and economic dimension of EU enlargement', in Beyond enlargement: Trade, Business and Investment in a Changing Europe, United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2003.
Galgoczi, B. 'The process of wage catching up in the future member states and candidate countries at the light of recent experiences', in Papeles del Este, Madrid, 2003.
Galgoczi, B. 'The impact of multinational enterprises on the corporate culture and on industrial relations in Hungary' in SEER, Volume 6, Number 1-2, July 2003, Brussels: HBS and ETUI.
Galgóczi, B. (2004) 'El proceso de homologación salarial en los países de la ampliación', Boletín de Información Comercial Española, (2797), 81-89.
Galgóczi, B. (2004) 'Von Billiglöhnern zu Hightech-Standorten: die neuen EU-Staaten wandeln sich rasant', Brenner Brief, (18), 4-6.
Galgóczi, B. (ed.) (2004) 'Prospects for young people or, is there any future in the Balkans' ,South East Europe Review, 6 (4), Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag.
Galgóczi, B. (ed.) 'Borderland', South East Europe Review, 7 (1), 155 p.
Galgóczi, B., Lafoucriere, C. and Magnusson, L (eds.) (2004) The enlargement of social Europe.The role of social partners in the European Employment Strategy, Brussels: ETUI.
Galgóczi, B. (2004) 'The implementation of the EES in the context of the accession and candidate countries', in Galgoczi, B., Lafoucriere, C. and Magnusson, L (eds.) The enlargement of social Europe. The role of social partners in the European Employment Strategy, Brussels: ETUI, 77-95.
Galgóczi, B. (ed.) (2004) Six years of the European Employment Strategy. 'Summary of ETUI-SALTSA publications on the EES (2001-2004), Brussels: ETUI.
Janssen, R. and Galgóczi, B. (eds.) (2004) Collective Bargaining in Europe 2003/2004, Brussels: ETUI, 360 p.
Galgóczi, B. (2004) 'Enlargement: a danger for the European social model or an opportunity?'risks and perspectives', in Jørgensen, H., Bærentsen, M., Monks J. (eds.) European Trade Union Yearbook 2003/2004, Brussels: ETUI, 39-61.
Galgóczi, B. (ed.) 'The social situation in the Balkans', South East Europe Review,7 (2), 168 p.
Galgóczi, B. (ed.) 'Informal economy in the Balkans', South East Europe Review, 7 (3), 131 p.