Social protection in labour markets exposed to external shocks

2011 ◽  
pp. 199-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devashish Mitra ◽  
Priya Ranjan
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
External Shocks

The South European Countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 843-862
Author(s):  
Maurizio Ferrera
Keyword(s):  
Social Insurance ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
State Building ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Employment Opportunities

In Southern Europe, welfare state building followed a distinct path, characterized by ‘weak Fordism’ in labour markets, a dualistic social insurance, and a faulty and fragmented safety net. The (extended) family thus played a key role as welfare and income provider for its members, penalizing women’s autonomy and employment opportunities. The 1990s and 2000s witnessed substantial efforts to modernize both labour markets and social protection schemes, by recalibrating their coverage both across risks and social groups. However, the economic crisis of the 2010s halted such recalibration and the gap with Europe’s more developed welfare states has again started to widen, especially in Italy and Greece.

Mind the gaps: Universal Credit and self-employment in the United Kingdom

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-217
Author(s):  
Kevin Caraher ◽  
Enrico Reuter
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
The Self ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Roll Out

Self-employment in the United Kingdom rose steadily until 2017, as part of wider changes in labour markets towards more flexible and potentially more vulnerable forms of employment. At the same time, welfare reform has continued under the current and previous governments, with a further expansion of conditionality with respect to benefit recipients. The incremental introduction of Universal Credit is likely to intensify the subjection of vulnerable categories of the self-employed to welfare conditionalities and to thus accentuate the ambivalent nature of self-employment. This article analyses the impact of Universal Credit on the self-employed by first discussing elements of precarity faced by the self-employed, and, second, by exploring the consequences of the roll-out of Universal Credit for those self-employed people who are reliant on the social protection system.

scholarly journals Economic Growth, Social Protection and ‘Real’ Labour Markets: Linking Theory and Policy

IDS Bulletin ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
James Heintz ◽  
Naila Kabeer ◽  
Sarah Cook
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Labour Markets

Disrupted labour markets

2019 ◽  
pp. 93-113
Author(s):  
Ronald Labonté ◽  
Arne Ruckert
Keyword(s):  
Health Risks ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Precarious Work

The search for employment is one of the major drivers behind migration. Globalization processes have had profound impacts on the world’s labour markets, creating opportunities for some (through out-sourcing) while dislocating work for others. This global redistribution of labour is not motivated by concerns for the livelihoods of workers so much as by the pursuit of profits by transnationally liberated capital. Net effects include increases in precarious work, declines in labour’s share of global economic product, and a continuous ‘flexibilization’ of labour markets excused by competitive pressures. Such changes bring new health risks associated with insecurity for many and downwards pressure on wages for some. International policy discourse lauds efforts to improve social protection measures for affected workers, while the growing gap between productivity and wages is giving rise to a call for universal basic incomes to compensate for globalization’s victory of capital over labour.

scholarly journals Austerity, Labor Market Reform and the Growth of Precarious Employment in Greece during the Eurozone Crisis

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Structural Reforms ◽  
Labor Market Reform ◽  
Precarious Employment ◽  
Protection Systems ◽  
Employment Rates ◽  
Social Protection Systems ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between structural reforms commonly referred to as austerity and the growth of precarious labour in Greece. It argues that, in contrast to the proponents of labour market flexibility, the liberalisation of labour markets, employment protection systems, social protection systems and collective bargaining institutions have not increased employment in Greece or minimised the growth of precarious employment. Rather, liberalising structural reforms have resulted in the creation of the very precarity its proponents claim is the product of rigid labour markets, and they have failed to significantly reduce existing levels of unemployment and increasing employment rates.

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