scholarly journals Insider–outsider representation and social democratic labor market policy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reto Bürgisser ◽  
Thomas Kurer
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
Market Reforms ◽  
Labor Market Policy ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Labor Market Reforms

AbstractPostindustrialization and occupational change considerably complicate partisan politics of the welfare state. This article asks about the determinants of contemporary social democratic labor market policy. We argue that the composition of their support base is a critical constraint and empirically demonstrate that the actual electoral clout of different voter segments decisively affects policy outcomes under left government. We calculate the electoral relevance of two crucial subgroups of the social democratic coalition, labor market insiders and outsiders, in 19 European democracies and combine these indicators with original data capturing the specific content of labor market reforms. The analysis reveals considerable levels of responsiveness and demonstrates that relative electoral relevance is consistently related to policy outcomes. Social democratic governments with a stronger support base among the atypically employed push labor market reforms on their behalf—and vice versa. Our findings have important implications for our understanding of policy-making in postindustrial societies.

Group Capture and Political Sclerosis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark I. Vail
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Financial Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Labor Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Vested Interests ◽  
Zero Sum

This chapter analyzes how Italian clientelist liberalism has shaped policy outcomes in fiscal policy, labor-market policy, and financial regulation since the early 1990s. Unlike France and Germany, where national liberal traditions were successfully synthesized with the postwar political-economic order, in Italy a weakly embedded liberalism became increasingly dominated and undermined by clientelistic imperatives. Like its German counterpart, Italian liberalism has traditionally viewed groups as the fundamental components of the social and economic order. Unlike those in Germany, however, these groups have acted and been seen as acting as impediments to adjustments rather than partners with the state. The result has been a zero-sum conception of political reform, a conflation of notions of the limits of state power with the vested interests of powerful groups, and a deep distrust of the state. In fiscal policy, labor-market policy, and financial regulation, these political dysfunctions have frustrated reforms and undermined effective adjustment.

Unemployment reduction or labor force expansion? How partisanship matters for the design of active labor market policy in Europe

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 921-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Cronert
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Labor Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Active Labor Market Policy ◽  
Active Labor ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Active Labor Market

AbstractComparative scholars fundamentally disagree about the impact of partisan politics in modern welfare states, particularly in certain ‘new’ policy areas such as active labor market policy (ALMP). Using new data on 900 ALMP programs across Europe, this study attempts to reconcile a long-standing dispute between the traditional ‘power resources’ approach and the ‘insider/outsider’ approach pioneered by Rueda. The study argues that both left-wing and right-wing governments invest in ALMP but that politics still matter because parties’ preferences regarding unemployment differ. The left is more inclined to expand programs primarily designed to reduce unemployment, which exclusively target ‘core’ groups in, or at risk of, unemployment, and programs in which participants are no longer counted among the unemployed. In contrast, both sides are equally prone to expand programs that also—or instead—target people who are not yet participating in the labor market, which thus also—or instead—serve to increase labor supply.

scholarly journals Labor market reforms and unemployment dynamics

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrice Murtin ◽  
Jean-Marc Robin
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Reforms ◽  
Labor Market Reforms

De arbeidsmarkt van de Nederlandse gezondheidszorg als ‘patiënt’: een diagnose en enkele behandeladviezen

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Batenburg ◽  
Margo Brouns
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Training System ◽  
Health Care Market ◽  
Labor Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Patient Diagnosis ◽  
Dutch Health

The labor market of the Dutch health sector as patient: diagnosis and some advices for treatment The labor market of the Dutch health sector as patient: diagnosis and some advices for treatment In this article we discuss the labor market and job structure of the health care in the Netherlands. The health care market is under cost and capacity pressure which calls for a fundamental change of the job and training system. A meta-analysis based on two leading trend reports shows that there is a watershed between the labor market for physicians and non-physicians. The labor market for doctors is centrally planned, while for the much larger group of nurses the labor market is not governed. Another observation is that bottlenecks are mainly approached by increasing the capacity, less by innovations in the educational and occupational structure. Following this analysis, this article advocates for a comprehensive labor market policy that takes into account different segments of care, that require different skills mixes and competence bundles. We also argue that segmentation on the regional level is required to achieve a demand-based health labor market policy.

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