Regulating the risk of unemployment: national adaptations to post-industrial labour markets in europe

Regulating the Risk of Unemployment offers a systematic comparative analysisof reforms to unemployment protection systems in European countries since theearly 1990s. The volume sheds new light on important changes in a core field of welfare state activity. 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 pasttwo 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 themore 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 intwelve European countries. In addition to mapping reforms along these dimensions, the country studies analysethe political and institutional factors that have shaped national patterns ofadaptation. Complementary comparative analyses explore the effects of benefitreforms on the operation of the labour market, assess evolving patterns of working-age benefit dependency, and examine the changing role ofactive labour market policies in the regulation of the risk of unemployment. INDICE: 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 - FiscalPressures 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 ofTransitions 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

• ISBN: 978-0-19-959229-6
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 432
• Fecha Publicación: 27/10/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés