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Handbook of labour market policy in advanced democracies

"Bringing together contributions from leading labour market policy scholars from across the globe, this state-of-the-art Handbook offers extensive and compelling analyses of labour market policy in advanced democracies. Drawing on the lively debates on labour market policy that have characteris...

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Other Authors: Clegg, Daniel (Editor) , Durazzi, Niccolo (Editor)
Format: Book/Monograph
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA Edward Elgar Publishing [2023]
Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
DOI:10.4337/9781800880887
Subjects:
Demokratie
Politische Ökonomie
Arbeitsmarktpolitik
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Author Notes:edited by Daniel Clegg (Professor of Comparative Social Policy) and Niccolo Durazzi (Senior Lecturer in Political Economy of Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK)
Table of Contents:
  • Contents: 1. Introduction: Labour market policy as a field of government action and an object of research / Daniel Clegg and Niccolo Durazzi
  • Part I. Core concepts
  • 2. The rise and demise of unemployment / Jérôme Gautié
  • 3. Insider-outsider divides in rich democracies: Labour market policies, new inequalities and attitudes / Hanna Schwander
  • 4. Activation: A research topic in its own right? / Jochen Clasen and Clara Mascarò
  • 5. The academic and policy roots of flexicurity and its pathways / Sonja Bekker and Janine Leschke
  • 6. Assessing labour market policy change / Emanuele Ferragina, Federico Danilo Filetti and Alessandro Arrigoni
  • Part II. Changing contexts
  • 7. Macroeconomic regimes and labour market policies / Bob Hancké and Toon Van Overbeke
  • 8. Women, work, and labour market policy / Sonja Avlijas
  • 9. Labour market policy in the era of mass migration: Perspectives on Europe / Gemma Scalise
  • 10. Technological change and labour market policy preferences / David Weisstanner
  • 11. Putting the platform economy in its place: Contested regulatory terrains / Alessio Bertolini, Matt Cole and Shelly Steward
  • Part III. Actors
  • 12. Political parties and labour market policies / Reimut Zohlnhöfer and Linda Voigt
  • 13. Trade unions and the evolution of labour market policy / Joshua Gordon and Dennie Oude Nijhuis
  • 14. Employers and labour market policy / Sabrina Colombo, David Natali and Emmanuele Pavolini
  • 15. International organisations: Policy agendas and transfer mechanisms in global labour governance / Vicente Silva
  • 16. The European Union: A significant player in labour policymaking / Vincenzo Maccarrone, Roland Erne and Darragh Golden
  • Part IV. Job and income security
  • 17. Minimum wages: By collective bargaining and by law / Georg Picot
  • 18. Employment protection legislation: Towards more inclusive or segmented labour markets? / Agnieszka Piasna
  • 19. The parabola of unemployment insurance in advanced democracies / Daniel Clegg and Larissa Nenning
  • 20. The rise of in-work benefits: Policy, politics and evaluation / Joan Abbas and Ewan Robertson
  • 21. From early retirement to later exit from work: Shifting towards active ageing / Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Kun Lee
  • 22. Universal basic income: The new political economy of an old idea / Leire Rincon and Tim Vlandas
  • Part V. Employment promotion and support
  • 23. Skill formation: Part of and complement to the labour market policy mix? / Donato Di Carlo and Niccolo Durazzi
  • 24. Effects and explanations of active labour market policy: Theoretical and empirical challenges for cross-national research / Axel Cronert
  • 25. Public employment services: Mapping reform trends in advanced democracies / Timo Weishaupt
  • 26. The changing role of frontline employment advisors / Rik van Berkel
  • 27. Predictive algorithms in the delivery of public employment services / John Körtner and Giuliano Bonoli
  • Part VI. Regional experiences
  • 28. Liberal labour markets at the crossroads: The cases of australia and new zealand / Shaun Wilson
  • 29. Labour market policy reform in east asia: From economic crises to welfare politics / Ijin Hong, Chung-Yang Yeh and Jaewook Nahm
  • 30. Canada and the United States: Labour market policies and varieties of federalism in two liberal welfare states / Daniel Béland, Shannon Dinan, and Alex Waddan
  • 31. Labour market policy in the visegrad countries / Michał Polakowski
  • 32. Labour market policy reforms in southern Europe: Too much of the wrong medicine? / Arianna Tassinari, Fabio Bulfone and Angie Gago
  • Part VII. Impacts
  • 33. Labour market policies and social inequality in labour market outcomes / Thomas Biegert
  • 34. Poor workers in advanced democracies: On the nature of in-work poverty and its relationship to labour market policies / Rod Hick and Ive Marx
  • 35. Labour market policies as a social determinant of wellbeing / Elke Heins
  • 36. Labour market problems and political integration / Paul Marx
  • Index.

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