Author (Person) | Iversen, Torben, Soskice, David |
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Series Title | Journal of European Social Policy |
Series Details | Vol.25, No.1, February 2015, p76-93 |
Publication Date | February 2015 |
ISSN | 0958-9287 |
Content Type | Journal | Series | Blog |
Abstract Where companies and employees in advanced sectors co-invest heavily in company-specific skills, then governments will be concerned to maintain insurance infrastructures to underwrite these investments. Hence, in advanced sectors, we see politics for markets in maintaining insurance-based welfare states. In low-skill sectors, redistribution and active labour market policies are partisan issues for legislatures, so here our analysis is in line with Politics against Markets. Effective welfare state policies depend on political coalitions in which the low-skilled are represented. We suggest that those coalitions may be less available just as low-skilled workers are increasingly excluded from post-Fordist collective bargaining coverage. |
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Source Link | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0958928714556971 |
Countries / Regions | Europe |