Bio/Description
Born in 1966 in the Netherlands, joined the ETUI as a senior researcher in September 2004. Previously he was a research associate at the European University Institute in Florence, where he is also finalising his PhD in Social and Political Science. In the period 1992-1999 he worked for the International Labour Organisation in Mexico and in Budapest.
Research Fields
Economic sociology and neo-institutionalism; collective bargaining, employment and labour markets, welfare states; enlargement.
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Employment history:
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Sept. 2004-date |
Senior Researcher, ETUI, Brussels |
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Sept. 1999-date |
PhD Candidate, Department of Social and |
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2001-2004 |
Research Associate, Department of Political and |
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1992-1999 |
Various positions at the International |
Projects
Macroeconomic dialogue and economic policy co-ordination in EMU
This ongoing project is an 'umbrella' for the diverse work of the Institute in the area of economic policy coordination and the Macroeconomic Dialogue.
Labour market flexibility and security
From the research done under the flexicurity project it has become clear that flexibility and security on the labour market continue to be key concerns. There is a continuous pressure from the Commission, governments and employers for more flexibility to improve competitiveness. At the same time, trade unions and individual employees increasingly call for 'worker-friendly' forms of flexibility to allow for a better balance between work and non-work activities. A constant stream of new and not-so-new concepts is forwarded to package and these pressures and policies to achieve flexibility. These concepts are increasingly accompanied by arguments claiming that it is possible to create win-win situations in which increase flexibility to the favour of employers can be combined with favourable elements for employees as well, be it through worker friendly types of flexibility, the improvements of skills or increased security. Again, our flexicurity project has shown that such arguments should be examined with caution.
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.
Flexicurity
Companies, sectors, national governments and, last but not least, the European Union as a whole are currently facing a twofold expectation. On the one hand there is strong demand for further flexibilisation of labour markets, employment and the work organisation, while at same time an equally strong demand exists for providing security to employees, especially vulnerable groups of employees.
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
ETUI-REHS Research
Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 5 - Box 4
B-1210 Brussels
Belgium
Office N°: 434
Publications
Relocation. Challenges for European trade unions
A background paper for the ETUC/ETUI-REHS top-level summer school, Florence, 1-2 July 2005
Les défis de la relocalisation pour les syndicats européens
Document de travail pour l'Université d'été de la CES/ETUI-REHS des dirigeants syndicaux européens, Florence 1-2 juillet 2005
Edited volumes
Keune, M. and Galgóczi, B. (eds) (2006) Collective Bargaining on Working Time: Recent European Experiences, Brussels: ETUI.
Keune, M. and Nemes Nagy, J. (eds) (2001) Local Development, Institutions and Conflicts in Post-Socialist Hungary, Budapest: ILO.
Keune, M. (ed.) (1998) Regional Development and Employment Promotion, Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe, Budapest, ILO.
Book chapters
Rhodes, M. and Keune, M. (forthcoming) 'EMU and Welfare State Adjustment in Central and Eastern Europe', in: Dyson, K. (ed.) Enlarging the Euro Area. External Empowerment and Domestic Transformation in East Central Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Keune, M. (2006) 'The European Social Model and Enlargement', in: Jepsen, M. and Serrano, A. (eds.) Unwrapping the European Social Model, Bristol: Policy Press.
Hemerijck, A., Keune, M. and Rhodes, M. (2006) 'European welfare states: diversity, challenges and reforms', in: Heywood, P., Jones, E., Rhodes, M. and Sedelmeier, U. (eds) Developments in European politics, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan/Palgrave.
Keune, M. (2006) 'Collective Bargaining and Working Time in Europe: An Overview', in: Keune, M. and Galgóczi, B. (eds) Collective Bargaining on Working Time: Recent European Experiences, Brussels: ETUI.
Crouch, C. and Keune, M. (2005) 'Changing Dominant Practice: Making Use of Institutional Incongruence in Hungary and the UK', in: Streeck, W. and Thelen, K. (eds) Change and Continuity in Institutional Analysis: Explorations in the Dynamics of Advanced Political Economies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Keune, M. (2003) 'Labour Market Flexibility in Central and Eastern Europe: an Analysis of Non-standard Employment and Working Time Arrangements in the CzechRepublic and Hungary', in: Wallace, C. (ed.) Households, Work and Flexibility Survey, Comparative Volume 2, Vienna: Institute for Advanced Studies.
Keune, M. (2002) 'Institutionalising Capitalism: Changing Labour Market Institutions in Hungary after State Socialism', in: Fernandez, A. and Riethof, M. (eds) Labour Relations in Development, London: Routledge.
Keune, M. (2001) 'Local Development, Institutions and Conflicts in Post-Socialist Hungary: an Overview', in: Keune, M. and J. Nemes Nagy (eds). Local Development, Institutions and Conflicts in Post-Socialist Hungary, Budapest: ILO.
Keune, M and Tóth, A. (2001) 'Foreign investment, Institutions and Local Development: Successes and Controversies in Gyor', in: Keune, M. and J. Nemes Nagy (eds). Local Development, Institutions and Conflicts in Post-Socialist Hungary, Budapest: ILO.
Keune, M. (2000) 'Transition, Regional Development and Employment', in: Petrakos G., Maier, G. and Gorzelak G. (eds), Integration and Transition in Europe: The Economic Geography of Interaction, London: Routledge.
Keune, M. (1998) 'Economic Restructuring and Employment Promotion in a Russian Crisis Region: the Case of Ivanovo', in: Clarke, S. (ed.), Structural Adjustment without Mass Unemployment? The Lessons of the Russian Experience, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Keune, M. (1998) 'Introduction: Transition, Employment and Local Development in Central and Eastern Europe' in: Keune, M. (ed.) Regional Development and Employment Promotion, Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe, Budapest: ILO.
Lippoldt, D., Keune, M. and Planovsky, J. (1996) 'Conclusions', in: The Changing Social Benefits in Russian Enterprises, Paris: OECD.
Articles
Burroni, L., Crouch, C. and Keune, M. (2005) 'Governance caleidoscopica, debolezza istituzionale e sviluppo locale', Stato e Mercato, No.3, December 2005: 423-454.
Galgoczi, B. and Keune, M. (2005) 'Europäischer Wettbewerb: Ökonomische Daten im Ost-West-Vergleich', Mitbestimmung, June 2005: 30-34.
Keune, M., with Kiss, J. and Tóth, A. (2004) 'Innovation, Actors and Path Dependency: Change and Continuity in Local Development Policy in two Hungarian Regions', International Journal for Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 28, No. 3: 586-600.
Keune, M. (2004) 'Organised Labour - An Agent of European Democracy? Trade Union Strategies and the EU Integration Process', Transfer, European Review of Labour and Research, 2004-4: 667-673 (conference report).
Keune, M. (2003) 'Capitalist Divergence and Labour Market Flexibility in the CzechRepublic and Hungary: A Comparative Analysis of Standard and Non-Standard Employment', Czech Sociological Review, Vol. 39, No. 6: 607-624.
Keune, M. (2002) 'Creando Instituciones Capitalistas: el Funcionamiento del Mercado de Trabajo en Hungría en los Ańos Noventa', Papeles del Este: Transiciones Poscomunistas, Revista Electronica, No. 4 (Junio 2002), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/cee/papeles
Regionális Tudományi Tanulmányok (2001) No. 5 (special issue on Local Development, Institutions and Conflicts in Post-Socialist Hungary), edited by M. Keune and J. Nemes Nagy, (Hungarian).
Keune, M. (2001) 'Local Development, Institutions and Conflicts in Post-Socialist Hungary: an Overview', Regionális Tudományi Tanulmányok, No. 5: 7-22 (Hungarian).
Keune, M and Tóth, A. (2001) 'Foreign investment, Institutions and Local Development: Successes and Controversies in Gyor', Regionális Tudományi Tanulmányok, No. 5: 71-90 (Hungarian).
Keune, M. (2000) Eyal, G., Szelényi, I. and Townsley, E. (1998) 'Making Capitalism without Capitalists. The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe' , London/New York: Verso. In: Transfer, European Review of Labour and Research 2000-3: 531-534 (bookreview).
Keune, M. and Orlova, N. (1999) 'The Deepening Social Crisis and Poverty in Moldova: an Analysis of Income, Consumption and Nutrition in the 1990s', South East Europe Review for Labour and Social Affairs, Volume 2, No.1 April 1999: 119-129.
Keune, M. and Ne¨porová, A. (1997) 'Towards an Employment Promoting Economic Policy in Hungary', Transfer, European Review of Labour and Research 97-2: 445-452.
Sengenberger W. and Keune, M. (1996) 'The Role of Proactive Policies for Employment Creation at the Industrial and Regional Level - International Experience', Society and Economics, No. 3-4/1996, (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, in Russian).
Reports and working papers
Keune, M. (2006) 'Wages in the EU', in: ETUI/ETUC (ed.) Benchmarking Working Europe 2006, Brussels.
Galgóczi, B., Keune, M. and Warneck, W. (2006) 'Working Time', in: ETUI/ETUC (ed.) Benchmarking Working Europe 2006, Brussels.
Keune, M. (2005) The Coordination of Collective Bargaining in Europe 2005, Brussels: ETUI.
Galgóczi, B., Keune, M. and Watt, A. (2005) Relocation: Challenges for European Trade Unions, Discussion paper 2005-01, Brussels: ETUI.
Keune, M. (2005) 'Income, Wages and Labour Costs in the EU25', in: ETUI/ETUC (ed.) Benchmarking Working Europe 2005, Brussels.
Keune, M. (2004) The Coordination of Collective Bargaining in Europe 2004, Brussels: ETUI.
Keune, M. (2004) A Guide to Youth Employment: Policy Considerations and Recommendations for Improving the Position of Youths on the Labour Market, Geneva: ILO.
Keune, M. (2002) Creating Capitalist Institutions: Labour Market Governance in Hungaryin the 1990s, EUI Working Paper SPS 2002/6, Florence: European University Institute.
Keune, M. (2001) Regions, Regional Institutions and Regional Policy in Europe and the US, Working Paper No. 16, Series on Globalisation, Area-based Enterprise Development and Employment, Geneva: ILO.
Keune, M. and Tóth, A. (2001) Foreign Direct Investment, Local Suppliers and Employment in Gyor, Hungary, Working Paper No. 10, Series on Globalisation, Area-based Enterprise Development and Employment, Geneva: ILO.
Keune, M. (2000) Poverty and the Labour Market in Latvia, Evidence from the Household Budget Survey and the Labour Force Survey, Riga: United Nations Development Programme/Ministry of Welfare.
Keune, M. (1998) Youth Unemployment in Hungaryand Poland, Employment and Training Papers, Geneva: ILO.
Keune, M. (1998) 'Local Development and Employment Promotion: the Case of Chernobyl', in: Employment Policy Review Ukraine, Geneva: ILO.
Keune, M. (1998) 'Creation of New Jobs through Small Enterprise Development', in: Employment Policy Review Ukraine, Geneva: ILO.
ILO (1997) Hungary: Employment and Sustainable Livelihoods, Country Review prepared for the UN-ACC Task Force on Employment and Sustainable Livelihoods, Budapest: ILO (co-author/editor). (in English and Hungarian).
Keune, M and Peekstok, A. (1997) Transition and Local Governments in Moldova, The Hague: Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG).
Sengenberger W. and Keune, M. (1996) 'The Role of Proactive Policies for Employment Creation at the Industrial and Regional Level - International Experience', in: For More and Better Jobs in the Russian Federation, ILO-CEET Report 17, Budapest: ILO.
Keune, M. and Ne¨porová, A. (1996) Promoting Economic and Social Restructuring in the Spis Region, Slovakia, ILO-CEET Report 16, Budapest: ILO.
ILO-CEET. (1996) Economic Restructuring and Social Dialogue in the Ivanovo Oblast, Russia, ILO-CEET Report 14, Budapest: ILO (main author). (in English and Russian).