Social Democrats and Education Spending: A Refined Perspective on Supply-Side Strategies

Busemeyer, Marius R.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1089377

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“…These insights contribute to our broader understanding of the sources of dualism in advanced industrialized countries. Scholars such as Rueda (2006) and Busemeyer (2006, 2007) point to a hidden problem of dualism in social democratic welfare states, and draw attention to the political sources of this dualism: social democratic parties sometimes focus primarily on the interests of skilled workers to the neglect of unskilled workers' concerns. We add to this discussion a programmatic basis for dualism: structures of coordination forge barriers to the easy incorporation of marginal low‐skilled workers into training systems.…”

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Scenes from a mall: Retail training and the social exclusion of low-skilled workers

Martin¹,

Knudsen²

2010

Regulation &Amp; Governance

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In this article we examine how post‐industrial Britain and Denmark undertake vocational training for low‐skilled retail workers. Specifically, we evaluate whether leaders in training skilled industrial workers are also doing the best job with low‐skilled service workers. While Danish retail is increasingly becoming a haven for low‐skilled workers, British workers are gaining in skills levels with the transition to services even in the retail sector. While some suggest that social democratic countries have sacrificed the political interests of low‐skilled workers in order to protect core manufacturing workers, we find no evidence of this. Rather, the high expectations of vocational training in Denmark have forged barriers to the easy admission of low‐skilled service workers, while the British system provides more entry points for vocational training at different levels. The structures of coordination that had narrowed the gap between white‐collar and blue‐collar manufacturing workers during the industrial age are creating new cleavages in the post‐industrial economy.

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confidence: 99%