Europeanisation at sectoral level. Empirical results and missing perspectives

Abstract

This article considers some of the results published in the reports on social dialogue in individual sectors in this issue of Transfer and highlights some of the less mentioned perspectives and unresolved problems. The major topics from an empirical perspective are: the distribution of sectoral social dialogue across sectors, topics and outcomes of the dialogues, consequences and non-consequences of the major institutional reform of the sectoral social dialogue in the late 1990s, problems of transposition and implementation of results, the so-called eastern enlargement of the EU and its lasting difficulties for sectoral dialogue, as well as some unsolved questions for future practice and research.