Social Policy and Perceived Immigrant Labor Market Competition in Europe: Is Prevention Better Than Cure?

Social Forces ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 1655-1685 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Heizmann
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Immigrant Labor ◽  
Better Than

scholarly journals International labor market competition and wives’ labor supply responses

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 101983
Author(s):  
Pål Schøne ◽  
Marte Strøm
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
International Labor

scholarly journals Silent Non-Exit and Broken Voice. Early Postcommunist Social Policies as Protest-Preempting Strategies

Südosteuropa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-174
Author(s):  
Pieter Vanhuysse
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Action Theory ◽  
Political Sociology ◽  
New Democracies ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Distributive Conflict

Abstract This essay contributes to the development of an analytical political sociology examination of postcommunist policy pathways and applies such an analysis in a reinterpretation of the social policy pathways taken by Hungary and Poland. During the critical historical juncture of the early 1990s, governments in these new democracies used social policies to proactively create new labor market outsiders (rather than merely accommodate or deal with existing outsiders) in an effort to stifle disruptive repertoires of political voice. Microcollective action theory helps to elucidate how the break-up of hitherto relatively homogeneous clusters of threatened workers into newly competing interest groups shaped the nature of distributive conflict in the formative first decade of these new democracies. In this light, we see how the analytical political sociology of postcommunist social policy can advance and modify current, predominantly Western-oriented theories of insider/outsider conflict and welfare retrenchment policy, and can inform future debates about emerging social policy biases in Eastern Europe.

Labor Market Competition, Executive Job-Hopping, and Compensation

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huasheng Gao ◽  
Juan Luo ◽  
Tilan Tang
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Competition

scholarly journals Global Challenges of Social Policy on the Example of the Labor Market: The Experience of Kazakhstan

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
G. Jussupova
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Demographic Processes ◽  
Political Economic

The processes of globalization affect many economic and social processes, and the labor market is no exception. The situation in the labor market is always the center of attention for the state, business, and society as a whole. It determines the economic development of the country, social policy, the competitiveness of enterprises, and human capital. This article discusses global challenges such as the fourth industrial revolution, the digital transformation of society and industry, migration processes and informal employment, the problems of identifying social status for the population, and the system of accounting for social benefits. Because the labor market is experiencing the strongest impact of political, economic, social, and demographic processes, it has its own characteristics in each country, and this article discusses the internal problems of the Kazakhstan labor market. In addition, the article provides suggestions for improving social policy issues, employment through the automation of social processes and services, the digitalization of the public and private sectors, and the creation and development of information infrastructure of the labor market.

Do Employment-Conditional Earnings Subsidies Work?

2018 ◽  
pp. 154-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lane Kenworthy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
Relative Poverty ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Labor Market Regulations ◽  
Better Than

Cash transfers and tax credits to people in paid work but with low earnings are increasingly prominent in affluent countries. How effective are these programs at reducing poverty and increasing employment? The experiences of the United States and United Kingdom suggest that, in an economy with weak unions and limited labor market regulations, an employment-conditional earnings subsidy increases employment among persons at the low end of the labor market but reduces low-end wage levels somewhat. Overall, it appears to boost the absolute incomes of low-end households. Even so, cross-country comparison offers little support for a conclusion that the institutional configuration in these countries, including the employment-conditional earnings subsidy, is especially effective at generating high and rising employment, high and rising incomes among low-end households, or low and decreasing relative poverty rates. Quite a few other affluent nations have done as well as or better than the United Kingdom and the United States in recent decades.

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