Is Social Europe Fit for Globalisation?

Begg, Iain; Draxler, Juraj; Mortensen, Jørgen Birk

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“…Nevertheless, like many wealthy developed nations, the Nordic nations face various challenges to a public policy-oriented health promotion agenda. The literature in this area has come to focus on two key threats: economic globalization [1–3] and immigration [4–5]. I identify a third perhaps encompassing threat: the weakening of support for social democratic parties and traditional Nordic concepts of universalism and solidarity (i.e., “welfare state fatigue”) by which the first two threats translate into reduced public and political support for the Nordic welfare state.…”

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Challenges to promoting health in the modern welfare state: The case of the Nordic nations

Raphael

2013

Scand J Public Health

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Challenges to promoting health in the modern welfare state: The case of the Nordic nations

Raphael

2013

Scand J Public Health

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“…As Begg et al (2008) highlight, technological change has proved to be skill‐biased and fast (at least relative to education expansion): even increased higher education has been unable to catch up with it.…”

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Globalisation, new technologies (ICTs) and dual labour markets: the case of Europe

Ramos

Ballell²

2009

Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to argue that in spite of the widely optimistic held view on the effect of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in promoting the “knowledge society” in Europe and economic development elsewhere, evidence suggests that ICT's could be strengthening labour duality world wide.Design/methodology/approachThe paper addresses these issues by presenting a brief assessment of the “Washington Consensus” and the emergence of ICTs in terms of trade, growth and inequality in different regions of our planet. The paper also describes the effects of globalisation and ICTs on European economies. Finally, the paper presents the key finding and raises some policy implications to exploit ICT potentialities to ensure welfare systems in advanced economies and development in emerging countries.FindingsThe lack of sufficient institutional mechanism of distribution in developing economies is not only making it more difficult for economic growth to translate into development but it is also favouring relocations of production, pressures to deregulate employment, control salaries and social expenditure in Europe. This feeds complex processes of social segmentation world wide. To meet this challenge Europe has no choice but to opt for the development of avant‐garde sectors. However, measures linked to the development of the knowledge society may not be sufficient to maintain our welfare states in the current context of globalisation. Europe must play a more internationally active role in the design of another model of globalisation that would encompass social policies at a global scale as one of its pillars.Originality/valueThere are very few studies of ICTs' role in the relationship between openness‐growth‐development‐inequality. What are ICTs responsible for? What are ICTs' effects on development and welfare state sustainability?

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“…One of the main challenges the European Union is currently facing is how to live up, in the era of globalisation and ageing, to European citizens' expectations of providing a distinct European Social Model (Begg, Draxler and Mortensen 2008). Can a true alternative be offered to sheer flexibilisation, deregulation and the degradation of social standards and social cohesion?…”

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On the Road to Flexicurity: Dutch Proposals for a Pathway towards Better Transition Security and Higher Labour Market Mobility

Bovenberg¹,

Wilthagen²

2008

European Journal of Social Security

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As regards labour-market reform and employment policies, the European Union currently touts the concept of ‘flexicurity’, aiming at simultaneously enhancing both flexibility and security in the labour market in response to the globalisation of the economy and far-reaching demographic developments such as the ageing of the population. Each Member State is expected to map out its own distinct pathway towards more flexicurity and the European Commission has, for its part, suggested a set of four general pathways. Therefore a need exists for ideas and examples on how to elaborate a flexicurity pathway, looking for inspiration rather than imitation. In the Netherlands, a government-appointed Committee on Labour Market Participation (the so-called Bakker Committee) has recently published proposals and recommendations for further reform of the Dutch labour market. This paper discusses that part of these proposals involving a particular flexicurity pathway towards better transition security and higher labour-market mobility. This possible pathway, now being debated in the Netherlands, may also be of interest to other Member States.

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Is Social Europe Fit for Globalisation?

Cited by 11 publications

References 70 publications

Challenges to promoting health in the modern welfare state: The case of the Nordic nations

Challenges to promoting health in the modern welfare state: The case of the Nordic nations

Globalisation, new technologies (ICTs) and dual labour markets: the case of Europe

On the Road to Flexicurity: Dutch Proposals for a Pathway towards Better Transition Security and Higher Labour Market Mobility

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