Switzerland: From Liberal to Conservative Welfare State — a Pattern of Late Maturation?

Obinger, Herbert; Starke, Peter; Moser, Julia; Bogedan, Claudia; Gindulis, Edith; Leibfried, Stephan

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“…Building on suggestions of dualized or segmented labour markets (Boyd and Cao, 2009; Piore, 1979), the LIS data demonstrate that wages are both lower and less likely to vary substantially between caring and non-caring occupations in service and sales jobs, where immigrants are overrepresented. Switzerland, however, stands as an outlier, with a 9 percent ‘care bonus’ for service and sales workers in caring industries, supporting prior findings that due to recent welfare reforms and increased social spending, Switzerland may no longer classify as a ‘liberal’ regime (Obinger, 2010).…”

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The migrant in the market: Care penalties and immigration in eight liberal welfare regimes

Lightman

2018

Journal of European Social Policy

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This article disaggregates high- and low-status care work across eight liberal welfare regimes: Australia, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Using Luxembourg Income Study data, descriptive and multivariate analyses provide support for a ‘migrant in the market’ model of employment, notwithstanding variation across countries. The data demonstrate a wage penalty in both high- and low-status care employment in several liberal welfare regimes, with the latter (service jobs in health, education and social work) more likely to be part-time and situated in the private sector. Migrant care workers are found to work disproportionately in low-status, low-wage types of care and, in some cases, to incur additional wage penalties compared to native-born care workers with equivalent human capital.

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Section: Care and Immigrant Wage Penaltiessupporting

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“…However, due to a series of neoliberal government reforms beginning in the 1980s, Israel is now most commonly designated ‘liberal’ (see Zambon et al, 2006). In Switzerland, there is ongoing debate as to whether the country fits best as a liberal or conservative regime (Obinger, 2010).…”

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The migrant in the market: Care penalties and immigration in eight liberal welfare regimes

Lightman

2018

Journal of European Social Policy

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“…Surprisingly, little research has been devoted to understanding how social mechanisms are intertwined with different labour market and welfare regimes [11][12][13][14]. In the welfare, social policy and health inequality literature Denmark and Norway are assigned to a Nordic or social democratic welfare regime [11][12][13], which differs from the liberal and conservative welfare regimes, including a universal social security system, less poverty and more equal income distributions, state driven activation measures and the structuring of postindustrial employment careers. In recent years Switzerland has gone from a more liberal model relying on private insurances and market mechanisms towards a more conservative welfare regime model with the family as the main welfare provider [1,13].…”

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“…In the welfare, social policy and health inequality literature Denmark and Norway are assigned to a Nordic or social democratic welfare regime [11][12][13], which differs from the liberal and conservative welfare regimes, including a universal social security system, less poverty and more equal income distributions, state driven activation measures and the structuring of postindustrial employment careers. In recent years Switzerland has gone from a more liberal model relying on private insurances and market mechanisms towards a more conservative welfare regime model with the family as the main welfare provider [1,13]. In most comparative analysis of welfare regimes, the Netherlands emerges as a hybrid between the Nordic/social democratic model and the conservative model [11,13].…”

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Gender, class, employment status and social mobility following spinal cord injury in Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland

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Study design Cross sectional survey of 1055 persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) in Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland.Objectives (1) To analyse the employment levels of people of working age with SCI, including possible gender differences.(2) To study the relevance of occupational class before SCI and its impact on employment and occupational class after SCI. Setting Members of national SCI consumer associations. Methods Employment status and social mobility after SCI was regressed on occupational class before SCI, using multinomial and binary logistic regression analysis of employment, while controlling for other explanatory variables to employment after SCI and demographic characteristics. Results Employment levels after injury were similar for men and women in each of the four nations, but Dutch women had significantly lower scores on predicted employment than Dutch men. Employment and social mobility trajectories were heavily in favour of middle-class occupations. Gender differences in employment status at the time of study primarily occurred among those in working-class occupations before SCI, with men less likely than women of being non-employed. Working-class men were significantly more likely than working-class women to retain a working-class occupation at the time of study, and although non-significant, to attain a middle-class occupation after SCI. Conclusion There was little variation in employment by gender within and across countries but significant differences between working-class and middle-class occupations before and after injury. The results suggest that targeted employment measures should be particularly invested in the rehabilitation of women in working-class occupations.

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“…These cases were selected in different national contexts whose LTC regimes represent different regimes of the welfare state: the German welfare state regime is a subsidiarybased insurance model (Rothgang, 2010), Scotland illustrates a universalist model (Béland and Lecours, 2008), and Switzerland has been characterised as a conservative model with liberal features (Obinger, 2010). Despite these differences, these countries share important characteristics that allow for a comparison of local innovation processes in the field of LTC.…”

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Innovations in Local Domiciliary Long-Term Care: From Libertarian Criticism to Normalisation

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This article assesses how social innovations in the field of local domiciliary long-term care are shaped and implemented. It proposes a mapping of innovations in terms of two structuring discourses that inform welfare state reforms: a libertarian and a neoliberal discourse. It then provides an analysis of the concrete trajectories of three local innovations for elderly people in Hamburg (Germany), Edinburgh (Scotland) and Geneva (Switzerland). Theoretically, social innovation is considered as a discursive process of public problem redefinition and institutionalisation. New coalitions of new actors are formed along this double process, and these transform the original discourse of innovation. The comparative analysis of the three processes of institutionalisation of local innovation shows that, in the context of local policy making, social innovations inspired by a libertarian critique of the welfare state undergo differentiated processes of normalisation.

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Switzerland: From Liberal to Conservative Welfare State — a Pattern of Late Maturation?

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The migrant in the market: Care penalties and immigration in eight liberal welfare regimes

The migrant in the market: Care penalties and immigration in eight liberal welfare regimes

Gender, class, employment status and social mobility following spinal cord injury in Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland

Innovations in Local Domiciliary Long-Term Care: From Libertarian Criticism to Normalisation

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