The Academic Middle-Class Rebellion

Bareli, Avi; Cohen, Uri

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“…However, studies also show that during the 1950s socio-economic disparities were held relatively narrow by the government's full employment policy, the relief work programs, and wage control. According to Bareli and Cohen, the government and the Histadrut regulated wage levels in the public and private sectors to prevent widening of the socio-economic gaps between high-skilled (professional academic workers) and unskilled workers (Bareli and Cohen, 2018: 233). This claim is consistent with Shalev's argument that the full employment policy was successful in the 1950s because the Histadrut helped the government restrain the wage demands of professional and academic workers (Shalev, 1992: 208, 210).…”

Section: A New Social Blocmentioning

confidence: 99%

What do workers want? Institutional complementarity as a mechanism of social change

Krampf

2019

Journal of Institutional Economics

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This article presents a theory of social protection expansion in late-developing open economies based on actors’ perceptions of complementarity. Drawing on recent theories of institutional change and political economic theories of welfare regimes, the article explains why in late-developing open economies, processes of liberalization often result in social welfare expansion. The explanation is based on the existence of institutional complementarity between the production regime and the social welfare regime. The article offers an agent-based theory of change according to which actors – state or market actors – are likely to promote welfare expansion amid their expectations of higher payoffs and/or improved performance of the liberalized economy. This theory challenges the more conventional Power Resource Theory, according to which welfare regimes are shaped primarily by the balance of power between workers and employers. To test the theory, the article analyzes the enactment of the unemployment insurance law in Israel (1972).

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Section: A New Social Blocmentioning

confidence: 99%