Pandemic paradigm shift

Rubinić, Ivan

doi:10.1111/wusa.12486

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“…Government subsidies to largely compensate for working time reductions became a widespread and respected tool during the pandemic, also thanks to EU SURE funding. Establishing permanent STW schemes could be part of a broader reform triggered by the ‘COVID moment’ (Crouch, 2022) possibly leading to a ‘pandemic paradigm shift’ (Rubinić, 2020) increasing welfare state resilience and thereby strengthening Europe’s social model.…”

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Cui bono – business or labour? Job retention policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe

Ebbinghaus

Lehner

2022

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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Europe has been faced with multiple challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the problem of how to secure jobs and earnings. In our comparative analysis, we explore to what degree European welfare states were capable of responding to this crisis by stabilising employment and workers’ incomes. While short-time work was a policy tool already partly used in the 2008/2009 Great Recession, job retention policies were further expanded or newly introduced across Europe in 2020 in the wake of the pandemic. However, cross-national variations persist in the way in which these schemes were designed and implemented across European welfare states, aiming more or less to hoard labour and thereby avoid mass dismissals throughout the employment crisis. We distinguish between business support and labour support logics in explaining the variation in job retention policies across Europe. Our finding is that Continental, Mediterranean and liberal welfare states did more to foster labour hoarding using short-time work than Nordic or Central and Eastern European countries.

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Cui bono – business or labour? Job retention policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe

Ebbinghaus

Lehner

2022

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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“…COVID-19 has proved to be an external shock and led to a "pandemic paradigm shift" (Rubinić, 2020). However, this "pandemic paradigmatic shift" might prove to be just that -a unique response within the broader deregulation and flexibilisation of labour markets.…”

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A Paradigmatic Shift? Economic Crises and Labour Market Policies on the Eu’s (Semi-)Periphery

Hočevar¹

2022

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Ireland, Portugal and Slovenia – three states with different historical legacies and institutional frameworks – promoted labour market flexibility and active labour market policies before and during the 2008 crisis. These policies were postulated as basic poli-cies on the EU level. However, a significant change came with the COVID-19 crisis when governments in all three states implemented measures much more resembling neo-Keynesian policies. In the article, we show that the crucial mechanisms for the various labour market poli-cy choices made in these three countries were due to the two crises being of distinct types, the (non)coincidence of interests of a range of actors and classes, and the dif-ferent policy frameworks promoted by the EU. Keywords: crises, flexibility, labour market, European union, semi-periphery, COVID-19

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“…Global economy is expected to shrink up to 4.9% during the second quarter of 2020 (Brodeur, Clark, Fleche, & Powdthavee, 2020; International Monetary Fund, 2020) and will be losing $9 trillion due to the pandemic (Tahir & Batool, 2020). Rubini (2020) provided a theoretical discussion of a paradigm shift and economic interventionism needed as a result of the pandemic to transform the way societal production is conceptualized due to the demise of markets and capitalist systems. This paradigm shift must deprioritize economic growth and must furnish an alternative by the political economy.…”

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CanCOVID‐19 mitigation measures promote telework practices?

Abulibdeh

2020

Labor and Society

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The propagation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had resulted in a significant slowdown of economic activities worldwide. Teleworking practices and policies could play a significant and essential role of any business continuity plan in time of risk that prohibits employees from performing their working tasks at their regular workplace or offices. Hence, telework gives those employees the opportunity to perform their work tasks remotely and keep the organization operational. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on promoting telework practices. This study discusses the transition to telework during the COVID-19 pandemic and the continuity of teleworking practices after the pandemic. Furthermore, the study discusses what elements and interventions that are necessary to maximize the potential gains for more widespread telework for employers and employees. Adopting telework in this circumstance can reduce the negative impact of the pandemic and be a mitigating measure for the economy and inequality. This research is important because it analyses the benefits of implementing telework practices in a time of risk.

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Pandemic paradigm shift

Cited by 4 publications

References 19 publications

Cui bono – business or labour? Job retention policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe

Cui bono – business or labour? Job retention policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe

A Paradigmatic Shift? Economic Crises and Labour Market Policies on the Eu’s (Semi-)Periphery

CanCOVID‐19 mitigation measures promote telework practices?

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