Regulating the Risk of Unemployment
National Adaptations to Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Europe
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 October 2013
- ISBN 9780199676934
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages428 pages
- Size 234x156x25 mm
- Weight 660 g
- Language English 0
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Regulating the Risk of Unemployment offers a systematic comparative analysis of reforms to unemployment protection systems in European countries since the early 1990s. The volume sheds new light on important changes in a core field of welfare state activity.
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Regulating the Risk of Unemployment offers a systematic comparative analysis of the recent adaptation of European unemployment protection systems to increasingly post-industrial labour markets. These systems were mainly designed and institutionalized in predominantly industrial economies, characterized by relatively standardized employment relationships and stable career patterns, as well as plentiful employment opportunities even for those with low skills. Over the past two to three decades they have faced the challenge of an accelerating shift to a primarily service-based economy, accompanied by demands for greater flexibility in wages and terms and conditions in low-skill segments of the labour market as well as pressures to maximise labour force participation given the more limited potential for productivity-led growth. The book develops an original framework for analysing adaptive reform in unemployment protection along three discrete dimensions of institutional change, which are termed benefit homogenization, risk re-categorization, and activation. This framework is then used to structure analysis of twenty years of unemployment protection reform in twelve European countries. In addition to mapping reforms along these dimensions, the country studies analyse the political and institutional factors that have shaped national patterns of adaptation. Complementary comparative analyses explore the effects of benefit reforms on the operation of the labour market, assess evolving patterns of working-age benefit dependency, and examine the changing role of active labour market policies in the regulation of the risk of unemployment.
This volume fills a gap in helping to explain some major policy shortcomings...The inter-disciplinary analysis of this volume constitutes a precious tool for policy-makers, social actors and academics about how and why unemployment and labour market policies evolved in different ways in different political contexts, and what were the outcomes and implications for regulatory arrangements, institutional adjustment and social inclusion/exclusion.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Appendices
List of Abbreviations
List of Annexes
List of contributors
Unemployment Protection and Labour Market Change in Europe: Towards 'Triple Integration'?
Part I: National developments
The United Kingdom - Towards a Single Working-Age Benefit
France - Integration versus Dualisation
Germany - Moving Towards Integration Whilst Maintaining Segmentation
The Netherlands - Two Tiers for All
Belgium - A Precursor Muddling Through?
Switzerland - A Latecomer Catching Up?
Italy - Partial Adaptation of an Atypical Benefit System
Spain - Fragmented Unemployment Protection in a Segmented Labour Market
Denmark - Ambiguous Modernisation of an Inclusive Unemployment Protection System
Sweden - Ambivalent Adjustment
Hungary - Fiscal Pressures and a Rising Resentment Against the (idle) Poor
The Czech Republic -Activation, Diversification and Marginalisation
Part II: Cross-National Perspectives
Quantity over Quality? A European Comparison of the Changing Nature of Transitions Between Non-Employment and Employment
Tracking Caseloads - The Changing Composition of Working-Age Benefit Receipt in Europe
Active Labour Market Policies in a Changing Economic Context
The Transformation of Unemployment Protection in Europe
