Towards a European Social Model?

Montanari, Ingalill; Nelson, Kenneth; Palme, Joakim

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“…Up till now, such trends have mainly been researched for social benefits (Draxler and Van Vliet, 2010;Montanari et al, 2008;Schmitt and Starke, 2011) and employment protection legislation (Erhel and Zajdela, 2004;McBride and Williams, 2001;Skedinger, 2010), rather than for the specific case of minimum wages. Moreover, evidence from this literature remains rather inconclusive.…”

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Stemming the tide: What have European Union countries done to support low-wage workers in an era of downward wage pressures?

Marchal

Marx

2017

Journal of European Social Policy

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Governments across the European Union (EU) have been striving to get more people into work while at the same time acknowledging that more needs to be done to ‘make work pay’. Yet this drive comes at a time when structural economic shifts are putting pressure on wages, especially of less skilled workers. This article focuses on trends in minimum wages, income taxes and work-related benefits within a selection of 15 EU countries, for the period 2001–2012, with three US states included as reference cases. We find evidence for eroding relative minimum wages in various EU countries, yet combined with catch-up growth in the new member states. We also find that governments counteracted eroding minimum wages through direct income support measures, especially for lone parents. Most prevalent among these were substantial declines in income tax liabilities.

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Section: What Has Happened To Minimum Wages?mentioning

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Stemming the tide: What have European Union countries done to support low-wage workers in an era of downward wage pressures?

Marchal

Marx

2017

Journal of European Social Policy

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“…It is striking that convergence also materializes in the realm of unemployment replacement rates when controlled for a wide range of effects, rejecting the idea of on-going divergence and path dependency put forward by some authors (e.g. Montanari 2008, Korpi 2003. Although this study includes the first years of the credit crisis at the beginning of the 21st century, it is future research that should denote whether the crisis has triggered different policy responses by governments, or whether the trend of convergence continues.…”

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“…What is more, convergence induced by Europeanization requires that EU-level policy goals are passed on to national policy arenas. In general, there are three main channels through which EU-level policies might be transmitted into national policy-making (Montanari 2008): Harmonization through directives and regulations, indirect convergence via constraints on political decision-making and emulation by non-binding policy recommendations and intergovernmental means of governance like the EES.…”

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“…In the comparative political economy literature on welfare states, the convergence of passive labour market policies has been a subject of research for quite some time (Schmitt and Starke 2011, Caminada et al 2010, Montanari et al 2008, Korpi and Palme 2003, Cornelisse and Goudswaard 2002. Starting from the analyses of total public social expenditures at the aggregate level, many researchers progressed to analysing social expenditures at the program level.…”

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Convergence Without Hard Criteria: Does EU Soft Law Affect Domestic Unemployment Protection Schemes?

Paetzold

Vliet

2012

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The European Employment Strategy (EES) aims to promote convergence of domestic labour market policies by soft law instruments. Previous studies on the impact of the EES are mainly focused on active labour market policies. The present study aims at explaining cross national variation in national passive labour market policies and unemployment benefit levels. Building on the most recent measures and pooled time series data, the empirical findings reveal the presence of a convergence process among the most advanced economies regarding passive labour market policy efforts, with the EES fostering this trend even further. Furthermore, our findings support the argument that the EES creates pressure on governments to reform domestic labour market policies, but this pressure varies across countries and over time. The results suggest that the recommendations from the European Council have contributed to unemployment benefit reform processes.Keywords: Passive labour market policies, convergence, European Employment Strategy, Europeanization, Open Method of Coordination, welfare state JEL codes: H53, J68 * Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies, University of Salzburg, Mönchsberg 2, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria. E-mail: joerg.paetzold@sbg.ac.at † Department of Economics, Leiden University, PO Box 9520, NL-2300 Leiden, The Netherlands. E-mail: o.p. van.vliet@law.leidenuniv.nl Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the 10th ESPAnet Conference (2012) and a SCEUS research seminar (2012). We would like to thank all participants, in particular Olli Kangas, Harald Oberhofer and Hannes Winner for their helpful comments and suggestions.

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“…Anpassningen har inte lett till mer ensartade välfärdsstater (Montanari, Nelson & Palme 2008;Caminada, Goudswaard & van Vliet 2010).…”

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Åldrande och olja. Norsk pensionspolitik i internationell belysning

Lundberg

2015

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Arkiv. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys, nr 4 (2015) Åldrande och olja. Norsk pensionspolitik i internationell belysning Urban Lundberg sammandrag: På ytan faller den norska pensionsreformen från 2009 in i ett internationellt mönster där industrialiserade länder över hela västvärlden anpassar sina välfärds-system till en tvingande postindustriell problemvärld. Samtidigt är denna normalitet den norska reformens mest besynnerliga drag. Norge är alltjämt ett av världens rikaste länder. Under samma period som pensionsreformen förbereddes och beslutades växte oljeintäk-terna lavinartat. Urban Lundbergs artikel tar fasta på denna synbara paradox och visar hur norsk pensionspolitik måste förstås mot bakgrund av hur det dubbla trycket från globalisering och demografi, som i olika grad plågar alla andra jämförbara länder, i Norge genomgående filtreras genom en ännu större fråga om det mest ansvarsfulla sättet att för-valta en ändlig naturresurs. För att ytterligare framhäva den norska pensionsreformens unika särdrag placeras den in i en nordisk kontext där det mer välkända svenska exemplet ges avgörande betydelse.

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Towards a European Social Model?

Cited by 23 publications

References 30 publications

Stemming the tide: What have European Union countries done to support low-wage workers in an era of downward wage pressures?

Stemming the tide: What have European Union countries done to support low-wage workers in an era of downward wage pressures?

Convergence Without Hard Criteria: Does EU Soft Law Affect Domestic Unemployment Protection Schemes?

Åldrande och olja. Norsk pensionspolitik i internationell belysning

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