Rigidity and Flexibility: Patterns of Labour Market Policy Change in Portugal and Spain, 1981–96

Glatzer, Miguel

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“…Firms are correspondingly more inclined to build their competitive advantages on lowcost labor. With some notable variations across sectors and countries, the political economies of Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy share these features (Glatzer 1999;Hall and Gingerich 2009;Iversen and Soskice 2014).…”

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Varieties of Capitalism and the Euro Crisis

Hall¹

2014

West European Politics

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This article examines the role played by varieties of capitalism in the Euro crisis, considering the origins of the crisis, its progression and the response to it. Deficiencies in the institutional arrangements governing the single currency are linked to economic doctrines of the 1990s. The roots of the crisis are linked to institutional asymmetries between political economies. Northern European economies equipped to operate export-led growth models suitable for success within a monetary union are joined to southern economies whose demand-led growth models were difficult to operate successfully without the capacity to devalue. The response to a tripartite crisis of confidence, debt and growth is explained in terms of the interaction of institutions, interests and ideas, and its importance for the future of European integration is explored.

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Section: The Roots Of the Euro Crisismentioning

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Varieties of Capitalism and the Euro Crisis

Hall¹

2014

West European Politics

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“…Despite the introduction of cuts in the generosity and duration of benefi ts, there are also eff orts to expand unemployment protection coverage to previously unprotected groups. Th is raises the issue of whether these eff orts to expand unemployment protection coverage are (a) the product of compensation strategies (Glatzer, 1999;Pierson, 1994) adopted by policy-makers to make the introduction of cuts to unemployment protection more easily acceptable; (b) a refl ection of a shift in the balance of power between labour market insiders, outsiders and employers, given that labour market institutions are an arena for the power dynamics between diff erent social groups (Korpi 2001;Rueda 2005); or (c) simply, the result of a policy response to the rapid growth in unemployment in these countries to unprecedented levels.…”

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Austerity-Driven Labour Market Reforms in Southern Europe: Eroding the Security of Labour Market Insiders

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Domínguez

Antunes³

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European Journal of Social Security

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Th e sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone and increased pressures for 'structural reform' have led to a period of intensive change in labour market policy in Southern Europe. Examining the cases of Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy, this article focuses on the security of labour market insiders, a key group in labour markets that is highly segmented. Th e security of labour market insiders is conceptualised as consisting of security in employment (protection against dismissals) and security in unemployment (protection against drops in income provided by unemployment insurance and assistance). Using changes in national laws, the article charts and compares labour market change along these two dimensions across these four Southern European countries. Because labour

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“…As the contributors to this literature have pointed out, the two societies share so many structural features and historical experiences (prior to the 1970s) that the contrast between them approximates the status of a "natural experiment", thus enhancing the theoretical import of the comparison. Political scientists and sociologists (Bermeo 1998;Esping-Andersen 2000;Glatzer 2000;Cameron 2001) have also taken note of this empirical puzzle which, notwithstanding the interdisciplinary attention it received, diminished substantially for several years after 2000 in the context of severe Portuguese underperformance and substantial Spanish outperformance in the economy-through the beginning of the housing and credit crisis in 2007. As the data presented in Fig.…”

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“…21 Whereas Portuguese policy makers have felt constrained by their democracy's dominant political understandings 22 to avoid an all-out renunciation of employment guarantees and have relied largely on active labor market policies to enhance job creation, Spanish policy makers have instead avoided any significant challenge to the large banks and have relied heavily on the force of market competition and labor contract flexibilization as strategies to create growth and employment. The important research finding of Glatzer (2000) on the fate of proposals for liberalizing labor market reform shows that such initiatives were typically abandoned in Portugal but not in Spain.…”

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Rethinking the Iberian Transformations: How Democratization Scenarios Shaped Labor Market Outcomes

Fishman

2010

St Comp Int Dev

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This article examines how dissimilar democratization scenarios in two historically important cases helped to shape a major societal outcome, that of unemployment levels. With an empirical focus on the neighboring countries of the Iberian Peninsula, the paper argues that Portugal's relative success and Spain's persistent failures in the provision of employment cannot be fully explained by the focus of some analysts on comparative labor costs, and that the Iberian countries' employment levels also rest on a set of factors connected in sometimes complex ways with the two societies' very different paths from authoritarianism to democracy in the 1970s. Factors emphasized include the degree of incorporation of women into the labor force, the availability of adequate financing for small and medium enterprises-and the impact of national financial systems and state policies on that intermediary outcome-and the extent to which the two countries' welfare states are employment friendly. Central to this article's argument is the claim that the divergence between these Third Wave pioneers in their democratization scenarios accounts for the dissimilar penetration into the Iberian cases of another global wave of the late twentieth century, that of market-centric economic liberalization.The highly dissimilar democratization scenarios of Spain and Portugal in the 1970s are widely understood to have initiated the ultimately worldwide turn to democracy of the late twentieth century, but in this essay I argue that differences between the two Iberian paths of political transformation also helped to produce strikingly divergent societal outcomes in the field of employment creation-and other important arenas. Although I focus here on but one outcome, that of labor market St Comp Int Dev (2010) 45:281-310

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Rigidity and Flexibility: Patterns of Labour Market Policy Change in Portugal and Spain, 1981–96

Cited by 21 publications

References 5 publications

Varieties of Capitalism and the Euro Crisis

Varieties of Capitalism and the Euro Crisis

Austerity-Driven Labour Market Reforms in Southern Europe: Eroding the Security of Labour Market Insiders

Rethinking the Iberian Transformations: How Democratization Scenarios Shaped Labor Market Outcomes

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