Selection and Duality in the Employment Structure of the Randstad

Atzema, Oedzge; Smidt, Marc de

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9663.1992.tb01711.x

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“…What is not in dispute is that both the Netherlands as a whole, and the Randstad in particular, have witnessed rapid deindustrialisation since the 1950s accompanied by the growth of the service sector (Jobse and Needham, 1988) . Atzema and de Smidt (1992) show that manufacturing as a proportion of total employment in the Randstad fell from 22 per cent in 1977 to 17 per cent in 1987, and Jobse (1987, p . 306) comments that "The industrial city has almost completely disappeared in the Netherlands.…”

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“…Atzema and de Smidt's (1992) article gives data for 1985-90 which is not directly comparable to that for the Netherlands as whole, but it shows growing professionalisation, and they argue (p . 293) that "What is happening in the Randstad is a concentration of the fast-growing category of qualified staff personnel (specialist and executive functions) and an under-representation in the most declining occupational group of unskilled work" .…”

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“…Not surprisingly, this resulted in a very considerable increase in the number of employed workers, particularly women part-time workers . Atzema and de Smidt (1992) show that the total number of jobs in the Netherlands increased by 1 .25m or 24 per cent over the period 1981-90 . Not surprisingly, given the inclusion of part-time work of less than 12 hours per week, growth of the services sector and the increase of female labour force participation in the Netherlands, almost twothirds (815 000) of the increase in employed workers were women .…”

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“…The proportional increase in the number of administrative, commercial and service jobs was much greater in the city regions than in the cities, but this applied to both men and women and may reflect the decentralisation of population in these categories (Jobse and Musterd, 1992 What can we conclude from this analysis of employment in the 1980s? Atzema and de Smidt (1992) argue that "The Randstad economy is developing a specialised employment structure (where) growth occurs in better qualified and high-wage jobs" (p . 284) .…”

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Social Polarisation in Global Cities: Theory and Evidence

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This paper examines the debate over social polarisation in global cities. It focuses on the claims made by Sassen that the processes of economic change in such cities are leading to a growing polarisation of the occupational and income structures whereby there is absolute growth at both the top and bottom ends of the distribution and a decline in the middle of the distribution. It is argued that while these claims may hold true for New York and Los Angeles, possibly because of their very high levels of immigration and the creation of large numbers of low skilled and low paid jobs, her attempt to extend the thesis to all global cities is problematic. In other cities professionalisaton appears to be dominant. Evidence on occupational change in Randstad Holland is presented to support this argument.

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Social Polarisation in Global Cities: Theory and Evidence

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“…In addition to the strong dispersal throughout the 'urban field', the segmentation of the labour market is the most notable characteristic of economic restructuring (Atzema and De Smidt, 1992). The changes generate not only winners but also losers.…”

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