Short biography
Oscar Molina is ICREA Researcher at QUIT, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. He holds a degree in Economics at Pompeu Fabra University 1998. He obtained his PhD in Social and Political Science at the European University Institute (EUI-Florence), in 2004. His dissertation studied the changes in collective bargaining systems of Italy and Spain since the early 1980s. After working as research assistant at the Robert Schuman Centre, he has been government of Ireland post-doctoral researcher at the Industrial Relations and Human Resources Group, University College Dublin (2005-2007). He has taught courses on globalization and industrial relations, industrial relations in Europe and sociology of work.
Research interests
My current research is focused on two main areas. First, the comparative study of employment relations systems in Europe; changes in the institutions of collective bargaining and their regulation, the role of trade unions, corporatism, social pacts and concertation. Secondly, the analysis of determinants of regional development, with a particular interest in forms of participation of socio-economic actors and new forms governance of local and regional development strategies. Key words
Industrial Relations, Institutions, Economic Sociology, Varieties of Capitalism, Corporatism