European Social Dynamics: A Quantitative Approach

Degryse, Christophe; Pochet, Philippe

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3140259

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“…There was an uneven evolution of the influence and organisation of actors in the domains of finance and employment within EU institutions, which has produced an asymmetry between economic and social issues (Mailand and Arnholtz, 2015;Maricut and Puetter, 2018). The asymmetry in favour of the economic actors has been undoubtedly accentuated by the crisis of 2008, which brought about a significant slowdown for social Europe with a legislative breakdown in the social domain (Degryse and Pochet, 2018).…”

Section: Discussion: Political and Methodological Shortcomingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The EU policy focus shifted towards 'flexicurity' (European Commission, 2007) and the Europe 2020 strategy adopted in 2010 (the successor of the Lisbon Strategy) assigned only a marginal focus to job quality. 'Social devaluation' (Degryse and Pochet, 2018) was taken as the road towards restoring job growth and economic competitiveness in the EU.…”

Section: Post-2008 Stagnation In Articulating Job Quality At the Polimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Job quality in European employment policy: one step forward, two steps back?

Piasna

Burchell

Sehnbruch

2019

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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This article analyses the development and use of the concept ‘job quality’ in European Union (EU) employment policy. Using a set of complementary public policy theories, it examines how both political and conceptual factors contributed to the failure to achieve any significant progress in articulating job quality in the EU’s policy objectives and guidelines. Conceptual clarity in defining what job quality is (and what it is not), from whose perspective it should be considered, and which direction of change indicates improvement, are vital prerequisites for an effective integration of job quality into the EU’s employment strategy and into the elaboration of any successful social indicator. A constant political struggle between different stakeholders at EU level, and a need to reconcile the often-contradictory views of the social partners, has precluded the completion of this first step. Instead, attempts to include job quality into the policy formulation process were made without simultaneously adapting the overall narrative, which continued to give prominence to flexibility and deregulation. The outcome has been a rather cursory and inconsistent effort to implement policies and actions aimed at boosting job quality.

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Section: Discussion: Political and Methodological Shortcomingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Post-2008 Stagnation In Articulating Job Quality At the Polimentioning

confidence: 99%