Europe’s green, digital and demographic transition: a social policy research perspective

Petmesidou, María; Guillén, Ana M.

doi:10.1177/10242589221107498

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“…Social protection is chiefly predicated upon labour market inclusion (a ‘productive’ welfare orientation), while issues such as working conditions and the balance between proactive and more traditional social protection measures (i.e., various social security benefits) are less pronounced (Sabato et al, 2021). What also limits the remit of social fairness considerations in the EU's green growth model is its rather narrow understanding of just transition targeted mainly to the creation of opportunities for workers/communities/regions most affected by the transition (Petmesidou & Guillén, 2022, pp. 319–322).…”

Section: The Pillar's Potential For a Socially Fair Recoverymentioning

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“…A brief look at the EU's strategic social pronouncements over the last decades reveals ‘a stop‐and‐go (disjointed) manner in which EU‐social policy develops’ (Petmesidou & Guillén, 2022, p. 322). Forth and back moves in policy orientation hardly establish any clear priorities.…”

Section: The Pillar's Potential For a Socially Fair Recoverymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With the exception of the Italian NRRP, reference to ‘justice and fairness’ in the plans is pervasive but vague, largely reflecting the vagueness/narrowness of the Commission's approach to ‘just transition’ (Petmesidou & Guillén, 2022). The notion appears in various contexts.…”

Section: The Nrrps: a Future‐fit Welfare State Recalibration?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The EPSR and the Next Generation EU: Heralding a reconfiguration of social protection in South Europe?

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This article investigates the transformative potential of the Next Generation EU (NG-EU) initiative in social protection taking South European (SE) countries as a test case. It starts with a brief examination of the main social parameters of the EPSR and how these intertwine with the NG-EU strategy that links recovery from the pandemic with the EU's long-term green and digital transition objectives. This is followed by a comparative overview of the SE countries' social, green and digital outlook when embarking upon the recovery path. In light of these, the National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) of the four countries are scrutinised vis-à-vis the NG-EU specified priority flagship areas. The political background of the plans, the impact of the EPSR on their policy options, and their recalibration potential are comparatively analysed. In setting the course for a twin transition, all four plans share a focus on addressing long-standing social challenges mainly by bolstering productive welfare measures. But path-dependent differences in policy mixes and varying policy integration can weigh significantly on outcomes.

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“…In Europe, the EU – especially in the current conjuncture marked by its COVID-19 recovery plan – favours alignment in terms of policy responses. This probably impacts not only the predominant just transition approach but welfare policies more generally (Petmesidou and Guillén, 2022). The EU COVID-19 response and recovery packages signal a tentative shift away from austerity and renewed commitment to the social rights pillar and have been described as an opportunity to rethink what a European welfare state should look like in the long term (Hemerijck and Patuzzi, 2021).…”

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Just transitions for a new eco-social contract: analysing the relations between welfare regimes and transition pathways

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Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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By combining environmental and social objectives in order to address climate change and other environmental challenges, ‘just transitions’ have the potential to accelerate low-carbon transitions in an inclusive and equitable manner. More broadly, by strengthening an egalitarian and ecological public sphere that protects workers’ rights and the rights of nature, just transitions can contribute to a new eco-social contract for both people and planet, guaranteeing full access to social rights and a viable future for all. But like other strategies, just transitions vary in their ambition and thus their eco-social visions. This article builds on the analytical framework developed by the Just Transition Research Collaborative to comparatively assess different just transition pathways in Germany, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United States in the context of different types of welfare state and economic structure. The comparison may help stakeholders to evaluate different just transition policies according to contextual factors and transformative potential.

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“…The article by Petmesidou and Guillén (2022) in this issue lays out a research agenda on the social policy challenges faced by the EU under the combined impact of a triple transition: green, digital and demographic. It looks at the welfare state as caught between pressures from increased costs and serious socio-ecological concerns, and a need for social protection against a vast array of imminent socio-economic, demographic and environmental risks.…”

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Introduction. Welfare states confronted by the challenges of climate change: a short review of the issues and possible impacts

Galgóczi

Pochet

2022

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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By the time of the COP21 Paris Accord in 2015, climate emergency was being recognised as a top policy priority by more and more policy-makers and the restructuring process it entails was seen as the main challenge of the coming decades. The welfare state that emerged in the context of a fossil fuel-based extractive economic model, based on a belief in sustained growth, cannot remain unaffected by the ongoing transition to a net-zero economy (Gough et al., 2008). Nevertheless, the different possible linkages between the welfare state and climate and environmental issues largely remain unexplored. This is what motivated this special issue. This contrasts, for example, with the issue of employment and jobs in respect of both quantity (OECD, 2021) and quality (Piasna et al., 2019), on which many global macroeconomic (Nguyen et al., 2022) and sectoral studies (Valero et al., 2021) exist. The main approach is to try to define what green jobs are and what employment creation or destruction is to be expected during the green transition (Bowen et al., 2018).Nothing similar has yet been done for the welfare state and its different dimensions (social insurance, social assistance, health and safety and so on) (Koch et al., 2016), or certainly not involving sophisticated quantitative measurements. But although for the moment there is still relatively little literature on the topic -'sustainable welfare' being one important narrative (Büchs and Koch, 2017), there is a growing academic community among welfare state specialists who are interested in environmental issues. A crude indicator could be the growing number of 'green' thematic streams at the annual ESPAnet conferences. At the same time, the socio-ecological nexus is even more overlooked by environmental scholars.Different groups of academics composed of economists, sociologists and political scientists have showed interest, but they are not really engaging in a transversal dialogue between disciplines or countries, not to mention a trans-European dialogue.From a welfare state perspective, a first approach was to analyse the possible concordance or lack of it between the welfare state regimes and the environmental clusters.

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Europe’s green, digital and demographic transition: a social policy research perspective

Cited by 11 publications

References 43 publications

The EPSR and the Next Generation EU: Heralding a reconfiguration of social protection in South Europe?

The EPSR and the Next Generation EU: Heralding a reconfiguration of social protection in South Europe?

Just transitions for a new eco-social contract: analysing the relations between welfare regimes and transition pathways

Introduction. Welfare states confronted by the challenges of climate change: a short review of the issues and possible impacts

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