Transitional Labour Markets and Flexicurity: Managing Social Risks Over the Life Course

Towards Employment Insurance?

10.1093/oso/9780198790488.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Günther Schmid

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Social Insurance ◽

Market Work ◽

Income Volatility ◽

Family Work ◽

Life Course Transitions ◽

Social Risks ◽

Employment Insurance ◽

Labour Division ◽

The Life Course

New social risks have arisen due to the deepening of global labour division and the invasion of digital technologies into the production of goods and the delivery of services, but also due to changing preferences and individual work capacities over the life course. As these risks are not only connected with unemployment but also with income volatility due to critical life-course transitions (in particular, between family work and labour-market work, lifelong learning and employment), the need to extend unemployment insurance (UI) towards a system of employment insurance becomes evident. This argument is developed by focusing on the investment character of social insurance against the mainstream view of moral hazard related to any insurance, and by providing good practices or opportunities from various European member states.

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Pathways to adulthood

10.1332/policypress/9781447351467.003.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

John Bynner ◽

Walter R. Heinz

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Identity Construction ◽

Cultural Change ◽

Family Relationships ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Life Course Perspective ◽

Labour Markets ◽

Family Activity ◽

The Life Course ◽

The Impact

Supplies a broad overview of the themes pursued through the different chapters. The overriding theme is structural and cultural change affecting contexts and pathways to adulthood in two European societies that differ in their institutional fabric - England and Germany. Change in family relationships and identity construction, transformations in education, labour markets, politics and media are highlighted. The life course perspective that informs the theoretical framework of the book is introduced. The impact on and over shadowing of all youth and family activity through the COVID-19 virus is also addressed as precursor to the main discussion in Chapter 8

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Social investment in the Baltic states: Benefits against poverty and distribution of social risks over the life course

Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy ◽

10.14267/cjssp.2019.2.2 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 35-50

Author(s):

Daiva Skuciene ◽

Romas Lazutka

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Social Investment ◽

Baltic States ◽

Social Risks ◽

The Baltic ◽

The Life Course

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Risk, Social Inclusion and the Life Course – Review of Developments in Policy and Research

Social Policy and Society ◽

10.1017/s1474746412000711 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 319-333 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jens O. Zinn

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

Life Course ◽

Great Risk ◽

Social Inclusion ◽

Risk Society ◽

Community Based ◽

Welfare Capitalism ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Social Risks ◽

The Life Course

‘Risk’, ‘social inclusion’ and the ‘life course’ have become key notions in social policy after the Golden Age of welfare capitalism. This article reviews some of the key debates and developments in Australian social policy and research that underpin the contributions to this themed section. From ‘new social risks’ to ‘the great risk shift’ and the broader debates about the ‘risk society’ and ‘governmentality’, it reviews debates about social inclusion and the individualisation of risk, the risk shift in service delivery and the understanding and researching of the new life course. It concludes with suggestions for more community based research to inform social policy.

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