The Adjustment Path of the Austrian Welfare State: Back to Bismarck?

Unger, Brigitte; Heitzmann, Karin

doi:10.1177/09589287030134004

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“…Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have become an increasingly important component of policy, both at the national and European level, in recent years (Unger and Heitzmann, 2003;Devins and Johnson, 2003). Indeed, SMEs were recently described as "the most important segment of our economy" by the European Commission (Commission of the European Communities, 2008, p. 2).…”

Section: Smes Employment and Working Patternsmentioning

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Working time management and SME performance in Europe

Smith

Zagelmeyer²

2010

International Journal of Manpower

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Purpose -This paper aims to explore the management of working time flexibility and firm performance, measured by operating hours, in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe. Design/methodology/approach -The paper analyses the European Capital Operating time, Work and Employment Survey (EUCOWE), designed to collect workplace information on operating hours. With data on more than 17,000 establishments in six European countries -France, Germany, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the UK -the paper analyses working time patterns and operating hours.Findings -The authors show the positive relationship between company size and operating times and how SMEs make more limited use of more advanced forms of working-time organisation that may allow them to extend their operating hours. The use of less complex working time measures such as overtime does not have the same positive association with operating hours. However, the results also highlight that smaller establishments can still benefit from the adoption of certain working time practices. The results suggest that the influence of the regulatory environment on the use of working practices or the duration of operating hours is not straightforward, and as such the impact of national regulatory frameworks cannot be discounted in the country-specific differences identified. Originality/value -The paper uses the first comparable data on operating hours and working patterns to demonstrate the limitations on SME operating times across European countries.

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Section: Smes Employment and Working Patternsmentioning

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Working time management and SME performance in Europe

Smith

Zagelmeyer²

2010

International Journal of Manpower

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“…Regardless of these examples, there is also evidence that the Bismarckian roots of the Austrian welfare state have in other respects been preserved or even reinforced (Unger and Heitzmann 2003). Family policy is still very much attuned to the assumptions of the classic male breadwinner model even if the contemporary social regulations are much more gender neutral due to societal modernization and Constitutional Court rulings (e.g.…”

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A Long Goodbye to Bismarck? : The Politics of Welfare Reform in Continental Europe

Palier¹

2010

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“…Austria and Norway offer a good contrast. The Austrian welfare state, different from other Continental European countries, has spent considerable sums on families, and women are regarded as workers more than mothers (Unger & Heitzmann, 2003). In fact, the female activity rate was relatively high, around 73 per cent, compared with 68 per cent in Europe as a whole, and the spending on family benefits was 2.8 per cent in 1985 and 2005 compared with 1.3 per cent in 2005 for Italy.…”

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Feminisation of poverty in 12 welfare states: Consolidating cross‐regime variations?

Kim

Choi

2012

Int J Soc Welfare

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Kim JW, Choi YJ. Feminisation of poverty in 12 welfare states: consolidating cross‐regime variations? According to some theorists, the feminisation of poverty has become a common feature in the majority of advanced welfare states, but there have been very few attempts to provide a detailed picture from a comparative perspective. Considering this background, the aim of present study was to illuminate the feminisation of poverty in 12 welfare states between the 1980s and the 2000s and to analyse whether there has been any convergence or divergence between these welfare states. The scope and depth of the feminisation of poverty and the changing role of welfare states were assessed via an analysis of the antipoverty role of public transfers in each country. Using the Luxembourg Income Study dataset, this article argues that while the feminisation of poverty has been slowed down and even reversed in certain cases, cross‐regime differences have become increasingly visible.

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The Adjustment Path of the Austrian Welfare State: Back to Bismarck?

Cited by 12 publications

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Working time management and SME performance in Europe

Working time management and SME performance in Europe

A Long Goodbye to Bismarck? : The Politics of Welfare Reform in Continental Europe

Feminisation of poverty in 12 welfare states: Consolidating cross‐regime variations?

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