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Activating Labour Supply? European Strategies from 1990 to 2008

Activating Labour Supply? European Strategies from 1990 to 2008. Paper prepared for „Activation and Security“ ASPEN, Brno March 2009 Patrizia Aurich. Outline. Research context Conceptualising change towards activation Cross-national comparison: DK, D, UK Conclusion. 1. Research context.

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Activating Labour Supply? European Strategies from 1990 to 2008

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  1. Activating Labour Supply? European Strategies from 1990 to 2008 Paper prepared for „Activation and Security“ ASPEN, Brno March 2009 Patrizia Aurich

  2. Outline • Research context • Conceptualising change towards activation • Cross-national comparison: DK, D, UK • Conclusion

  3. 1. Research context • Activating labour supply in different welfare regimes? • Comparisons over time tend to emphasise convergence (Gilbert 2002, Clasen 2005) • Cross-sectional studies tend to show persisting diversity (Serrano-Pascual 2007, Barbier and Ludwig-Mayerhofer 2004) „Divergent convergence“: changes in diversity with common reference point (Kitschelt 1999) Aim: Compare changes in diversity under common frame of activation

  4. 2) Conceptualising change towards activation

  5. 2.1) Direction of change • Retrenchment, re-commodification, re-calibration (Pierson 2001) Recalibration: expansion AND retrenchment possible Change from goal of income compensation to activation > recalibration

  6. 2.2) Levels of change • Input – ideas and discourse • Legal output – institutional change in legislation • Administrative output – practices, implementation • Outcome – effects of policies in social settings

  7. 2.3) Room for diversity? • 2 arguments: • Include unemployed into work activities • Reduce disincentives

  8. 2.4) Analytical framework Coercion Re-commodification Coercive Welfare • Most active • employability security • security depends on conduct • Partly active • high insecurity Labour market Active support State Enabling De-commodification • Partly active • income security • employability security • Least active • income security Autonomy Construction of individual action situation

  9. 3) Cross-national comparison

  10. 3.1) Case selection

  11. 3.2) Indicators

  12. 3.3) Country development Coercion Coercive Welfare Re-commodification Active support Labour market Welfare Enabling De-commodification Autonomy Construction of individual action situation

  13. 3.5) Unravelling divergent convergence

  14. 3.4) Explanations?

  15. Thank you for your attention!

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