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Making work pay: Agenda-setting, framing and politicisation in the case of the EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages

Andersson, Cornelia LU (2024) STVM25 20241
Department of Political Science
Abstract
The adoption of the EU directive on adequate minimum wages in 2022 was surprising for many. Due to political, legal and historical reasons the directive marks an interesting development in EU labour and social policy. Aiming to contribute to the understanding of this development, this thesis sets out to answer two questions: How did the European Commission put the Directive on adequate minimum wages on the EU agenda? How can the proposal of the Directive be understood from a politicisation perspective? With a social constructivist approach to European integration, frame analysis is used to examine how the Commission put the directive on the EU agenda. The findings are then interpreted from a perspective provided by the theory of... (More)
The adoption of the EU directive on adequate minimum wages in 2022 was surprising for many. Due to political, legal and historical reasons the directive marks an interesting development in EU labour and social policy. Aiming to contribute to the understanding of this development, this thesis sets out to answer two questions: How did the European Commission put the Directive on adequate minimum wages on the EU agenda? How can the proposal of the Directive be understood from a politicisation perspective? With a social constructivist approach to European integration, frame analysis is used to examine how the Commission put the directive on the EU agenda. The findings are then interpreted from a perspective provided by the theory of politicisation in the EU. The findings indicate that the Commission framed social issues as common, European problems and by extension wages and wage setting as social issues, in order to motivate supranational action, which from a politicisation perspective can be understood as a response to an increased responsiveness to public interests and pressures. (Less)
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author
Andersson, Cornelia LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVM25 20241
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
EU, European Commission, minimum wages, collective bargaining, agenda-setting, framing, politicisation
language
English
id
9171617
date added to LUP
2024-10-01 11:21:38
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2024-10-01 11:21:38
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  abstract     = {{The adoption of the EU directive on adequate minimum wages in 2022 was surprising for many. Due to political, legal and historical reasons the directive marks an interesting development in EU labour and social policy. Aiming to contribute to the understanding of this development, this thesis sets out to answer two questions: How did the European Commission put the Directive on adequate minimum wages on the EU agenda? How can the proposal of the Directive be understood from a politicisation perspective? With a social constructivist approach to European integration, frame analysis is used to examine how the Commission put the directive on the EU agenda. The findings are then interpreted from a perspective provided by the theory of politicisation in the EU. The findings indicate that the Commission framed social issues as common, European problems and by extension wages and wage setting as social issues, in order to motivate supranational action, which from a politicisation perspective can be understood as a response to an increased responsiveness to public interests and pressures.}},
  author       = {{Andersson, Cornelia}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Making work pay: Agenda-setting, framing and politicisation in the case of the EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}