Precarious workers' choices about unemployment insurance membership after the Ghent system reform: The Finnish experience

Shin, Young‐Kyu; Böckerman, Petri

doi:10.1111/spol.12485

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“…Additionally, we also find that unionized unemployed workers are less likely to participate in training, which may relate to Finnish unions providing extensive job information and occupational training for their members (Shin and Böckerman, 2019). They may hence feel less need to participate in PES-provided training.…”

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Who gets labour market training? Access biases of social investment in Finland

Shin

2022

Journal of European Social Policy

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Policy access biases worry social policy scholars because they generate Matthew effects that exacerbate socioeconomic divides. Yet, access biases in many social investment policies, like training during unemployment, remain under-researched. Such access biases may be detrimental to a critical objective of social investment: to improve and uplift workers with precarious economic prospects. We focus here on access bias in training provided by public employment services against lower-educated workers. They are vulnerable to unemployment and fractured employment and should thus be targeted for training. While there is burgeoning attention on access biases in training against disadvantaged youths and non-citizens, fewer studies have focused on similar access bias against lower-educated workers. We highlight that access bias against such workers may stem from their lower willingness and demand for training, as well as policy design, informal eligibility criteria and caseworkers’ creaming practices. We suggest, however, that greater availability of training opportunities may ease this access bias against lower-educated workers. Using the Finnish Income Distribution survey data (2007–2012), we find evidence of training access bias: primary-educated workers are significantly less likely to participate in training than upper secondary and vocationally educated workers. Concurrently, our results show that availability of training is not significantly associated with the extent of training access bias against primary-educated workers. With a Nordic welfare model that prioritizes training to remedy labour market vulnerability and stresses that access to benefits and services is based on need, Finland represents a least likely case to find such access bias in training. We therefore consider these results worrying: if it is found here, it may be prevalent in countries with other welfare models.

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Who gets labour market training? Access biases of social investment in Finland

Shin

2022

Journal of European Social Policy

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“…In general, the economic policy and labour dmarket reforms implemented in Europe since the 1990s, the decade of the Economic and Monetary Union, have favoured the flexibility and unilateralism of companies, while being unfavourable to unions and their intermediation in the labour market (Waddington, 2015). Unemployment has been considered as a negative factor except for exceptions such as the Ghent system (Checchi and Visser, 2005), reformed and weakened in the 1990s and 2000s, especially in the case of precarious workers and young people (Shin and Böckerman, 2019).…”

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The influence of the political attitudes of workers and the effect of the Great Recession on the decision to join a trade union in Southern Europe

Sánchez-Mosquera

2023

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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One of the distinctive characteristics of the trade union model in Southern Europe is the clear political persuasion of the dominant confederations (mainly left-wing) and, with the exception of Italy, their low membership density. The Great Recession ushered in a period of confrontation between unions and governments over the application of austerity policies and radical reforms deregulating the labour market, creating a hostile environment for unions, which responded by intensifying their discourse and socio-political action in order to call for the support of workers and alliances with other left-wing organisations. This article, based on data from the European Social Survey, analyses the importance of the political attitudes of workers as a determining factor of unionisation in Italy, Portugal and Spain over a significant period, from 2002 to 2018. The results obtained reveal an important influence of political attitudes on unionisation in Southern Europe, especially in Portugal. However, other variables also affected unionisation, notably the negative influence of precarious forms of employment and the conjunction of the recessionary economic cycle and neoliberal reforms that took place during the Great Recession.

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“…These systems, while regulated and subsidized by the state, strengthen the ties between trade union organizations and employees, thereby increasing incentives for adherence to a union (Scruggs 2002). At the same time, younger workers and independent contractors often opt out of such systems if they have the choice, weakening both protection and union representation (Shin and Böckerman 2019).…”

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How to Achieve Inclusive Growth

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Labor earnings are the dominant income source for most individuals. Thus, an inclusive labor market is key for ensuring inclusive growth. In this chapter we propose four principles that an inclusive labor market will embody: access, fairness, protection and voice. While measuring inclusivity presents challenges, we discuss how data can be used to shed light on the extent of inclusivity and document cross-country trends and stylized facts. We also discuss the role of policy in achieving an inclusive labor market, focusing on the need to rebalance growth; improve risk sharing; and fight discrimination. Several messages emerge. First, some policies entail a trade-off between the different dimensions of inclusivity. Second, it is important to view policies as a bundle, taking into account substitution and complementarities. Third, some policies are win-win, in the sense that they both increase inclusivity and improve overall efficiency.

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Precarious workers' choices about unemployment insurance membership after the Ghent system reform: The Finnish experience

Cited by 5 publications

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Who gets labour market training? Access biases of social investment in Finland

Who gets labour market training? Access biases of social investment in Finland

The influence of the political attitudes of workers and the effect of the Great Recession on the decision to join a trade union in Southern Europe

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