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This study contributes to the welfare regime literature by analyzing unemployment compensation programmes -unemployment insurance (UI)/assistance (UA) programmes and redundancy pay schemes -of welfare state/occupational welfare regimes. It covers 15 countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) selected from Southern European, Liberal, Continental-corporatist and Social Democratic country clusters. In contrast to the common argument that Southern European countries have underdeveloped formal unemployment compensation systems, this study argues that they (especially in Spain, Portugal, and to some extent Italy) are comparable in strength to those in Continental-corporatist countries if occupational welfare programmes -notably redundancy pay -are considered alongside welfare state programmes for unemployment protection. The study also outlines the characteristics of redundancy pay schemes in the four country clusters and shows how different redundancy pay schemes are linked to UI/UA schemes in these clusters.

The policy transfer/learning framework provides clues about the ideational sources of new institutional components such as the new unemployment insurance (UI) programme in Turkey. Yet it is not clear how ideas produced by transnational actors within different networks are conveyed to the national political landscape by transnational and/ or domestic actors, and how these 'travelling ideas' are then operationalized at the national level. How do international organizations (IOs) get involved in the translation of travelling ideas, such as those which informed the design of Turkey's UI scheme, into the national landscape? How did the domestic actors articulate and modify the ideas of IOs during the institutionalization process of Turkey's UI programme? This article suggests that the 'translation' concept can provide further insights into better understanding the interaction between IOs and domestic actors that occurred during the introduction process of the UI scheme in Turkey.

The paper aims to bridge the literatures on Bimmigration policy^and Bsociology of professions^by offering an institutionalist perspective that focuses on the nature of foreign qualification recognition (FQR) processes and their impact on internationally trained workers' access to employment in 11 immigrant-receiving countries-

This study focuses on the conceptual and empirical development of severance pay (SP)/redundancy pay schemes established through centralized collective agreements (in Nordic countries) and legislation for unemployment compensation. It argues that these “mandatory” occupational welfare benefits have been neglected in social policy debates due to the ambiguity in their conceptualization, overemphasis on their cost implications, and the nonrecognition of their redistributive effects. The study offers quantitative indicators to analyse SPsapos; redistributive structure (coverage, generosity, and benefit equality) during the Global Recession in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, and Sweden. The findings demonstrate that SP schemes possess distinctive elements in Southern European, Continental European, Anglo‐Saxon, and Nordic clusters. The indicators are also used to analyse the interplay between these schemes and unemployment insurance/assistance in these clusters.