Reconciliation of Work and Welfare in Europe working paper series
The Working Papers on the Reconciliation of Work and Welfare in Europe series seeks to promote the diffusion of research and research integration activities taking place within the network and being produced by other researchers working on issues of work and welfare in Europe.
Working papers are published either within the framework of a series of closed calls, which follow the different stages in the life-cycle of the network’s activities, or as part of an open call, which aims to privilege both research focussed on cross-national comparative analysis of the various tensions between work and welfare and research focussed on the role of the European level in addressing these tensions.
Recent Submissions
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Cognitive skills matter. The employment disadvantage of the low-educated in international comparison
(The University of Edinburgh, 2011)It is now a widely acknowledged fact that the low-skilled are facing important risks of labour market exclusion in modern economies. However, possessing low levels of educational qualifications leads to very different ... -
The dependent variable problem in quantitative studies of Active Labour Market Programmes: Uncovering hidden dynamics?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2011)The question of what explains variation in expenditures on Active Labour Market Programs (ALMPs) has attracted significant scholarship in recent years. Significant insights have been gained with respect to the role of ... -
Employment insecurity of European individuals during the financial crisis. A multi-level approach.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)The concept of Flexicurity has been receiving much attention as the European social model. One of the most important concepts within the flexicurity approach is employment security, the security of having secure and ... -
State of the art. Overview of concepts, indicators and methodologies used for analyzing the social OMC.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)This paper is a detailed analysis about the literature on the Social OMC from 2006-2010, focusing on how OMC research has been carried out. It specifically points to which theoretical framework/concepts are used, and how ... -
Flexible working lives and pension coverage in Europe with a focus on women: Lessons to be learned by Germany?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2011)In particular due to increasing female employment over the last decades employment has become more flexible in regard to the contract form and we observe more discontinuous employment careers. This paper discusses in how ... -
Fertility, Female Participation in Employment and Reconciliation Policies in Spain
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)Different aspects of decisions regarding parenthood are analysed. From an institutional perspective, reconciliation policies and features of the female labour market are studied, as well as the values and life views that ... -
Why Are Some Workers Poor? The Mechanisms that Produce Working Poverty in a Comparative Perspective
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)The objective of this article is to distinguish between different types of working poverty, on the basis of the mechanisms that produce it. Whereas the poverty literature identifies a myriad of risk factors and of categories ... -
The emergence and changing nature of a polysemic category. European resources in the field of reconciliation between paid work and private life
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)European policies regarding the reconciliation of paid work and private life have undergone substantial changes since the 1950s. This paper analyses how European resources related to reconciliation policies have been ... -
Statistical Discrimination and Employers’ Recruitment Practices for Low Skilled Workers
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)This paper deals with the recruitment strategies of employers in the low-skilled segment of the labour market. We focus on low-skilled workers because they are overrepresented among jobless people and constitute the bulk ... -
Gendering Insiders and Outsiders. Labour Market Status and Preferences for Job Security.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)This paper examines the role of gender in the relationship between labour market status and preferences for job security. We hypothesize that the insider/outsider theory of employment and unemployment suffers from a gender ... -
Domestic Europeanization – Institutional Entrepreneurs and Welfare State Change
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)In this paper, we examine the domestic Europeanization of employment policy in two Continental countries — Germany and France. While both countries have experienced substantial labour market reforms in the last decade, the ... -
Complementing or replacing old age insurance? The growing importance of funded pensions in the French pension system
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)The French pension system has for long been characterised by its very low reliance on funded pensions, which have almost become a taboo subject since the Second World War. While other countries have often complemented ... -
Between sectionalism and revitalisation: Trade unions and activation policies in Europe
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)Though the response of trade unions to activation policies seems a crucial test of their capacity to adapt to the challenges of post-industrialisation, the issue has to date received little systematic attention in the ... -
Editorial Resources in Work and Welfare
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)This paper collates information on the top English-language publishing outlets in the field of work and welfare, including peer-reviewed journals and book series with large academic publishers. It is intended as a bookshelf ... -
Employee welfare and collective bargaining in exposed and protected sectors: Evidence from Poland and Serbia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)Collective bargaining is closely related to social policy making to the extent that the outcomes of the former inform and influence social policy agenda. It is widely held, however, that trade unions in Central Eastern ... -
The Capability Approach in social policy analysis. Yet another concept?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)There is still some lack of clarity regarding the question of what the Capability Approach actually is, how it should be interpreted and operationalised, and not least whether it is an adequate and useful concept for the ... -
Reconciliation of Work and Family Life in Hungary
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)The paper analyses the ‘Europeanization’ of policies concerning the reconciliation of work and family life in Hungary between 1998 and 2005. It looks at how politicians – in government or in the opposition – framed European ... -
The political economy of active labour market policy.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010)Active labour market policies have developed significantly over the last two decades across OECD countries, with substantial cross-national differences in terms of both extent and overall orientation. The objective of this ... -
The Role of Social Partners in Bargaining over Non-wage Issues across Austria, Greece and Italy.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2009)Flexible specialisation, internationalisation, an ageing workforce, and the move into a service economy has placed growing pressure on trade unions and employers to strike new deals. Bargaining over ‘non-wage’ issues may ... -
Trends of Social Welfare Systems: From Convergence to Attractiveness. An Exploratory Approach.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2009)The analyses of the national reforms in the welfare states over the last decades were partly focused on this notion of convergence. In the eighties and the nineties, the transformation in many welfare states provided a ...
