Towards a convergence of European social models?

Chapon, Séverine; Euzéby, Chantal

doi:10.1111/1468-246x.00123

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“…It is also evident that countries continue to grant benefits according to different standards. In fact, countries differ more in this regard today than they did 15 years ago, which is somewhat at odds with the social agenda of the European Union and the intentions of the kind of soft coordination of social policy that has been emerging in Europe lately (50).…”

Section: Trends In Minimum Income Benefitsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Minimum Income Protection and European Integration: Trends and Levels of Minimum Benefits in Comparative Perspective, 1990–2005

Nelson¹

2008

Int J Health Serv

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This article draws attention to the Europeanization of social policy and the development of minimum income protection in a large number of welfare democracies. The empirical analyses are based on unique institutional and comparative data on benefit levels from the Social Assistance and Minimum Income Protection Interim Dataset. There is some evidence of convergence in benefit levels among the European countries in the new millennium, but there is no clear proof of universal ambitions to fight poverty or of the existence of a single European social model. There are still welfare front-runners and those who lag behind in this regard, not only among industrial welfare democracies in general but also in Europe.

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Section: Trends In Minimum Income Benefitsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Minimum Income Protection and European Integration: Trends and Levels of Minimum Benefits in Comparative Perspective, 1990–2005

Nelson¹

2008

Int J Health Serv

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“…This resulted partly from policy priorities and partly from a change of the EU social policy (or model). The policy priority of the EU was to establish a single market and to introduce a single currency in the 1990s, which resulted in enhanced economic competition and restricted fiscal policy within its member countries (Chapon and Euzéby 2002).…”

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Managing Development

Nakagawa

2006

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Globalization in the 1990s provided both opportunities and challenges for developing and transition economies. On the one hand, it offered the chance to achieve economic growth through active involvement in an integrated and liberalized world economy, but on the other, it led to an increase in vulnerability to external shocks and volatility, as demonstrated quite dramatically by the Mexican peso crisis of 1994-5 and the Asian financial crisis of 1997-8.This book brings together an international team of contributors, including Barbara Stallings, Choong Yong Ahn and J.C. Ferraz, to analyze the different methods employed to manage globalization and development, as well as to examine the challenges of development and transition strategies at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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“…The social dimension has been left at a secondary level. It was argued that economic progress will end up "pulling" social models "upwards" (Chapon and Euzeby 2002). Until the early 1990s the social dimension of the European Union based on the directives on the areas like equal opportunities, health safety at work.…”

Section: What Is Social Europementioning

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The New Security Paradigm

2015

Losing Control

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The rhetoric of the "European Social Model" came into existence in 1990s. On the one hand it emphasizes the social character of the Europe which is based on the embedded liberalism-regulation of economy through institutions-, and decommodification-not letting alone the individual against the market forces. On the other hand, it is notifying an emerging "new social security paradigm". This new model is based on integration of employment policies to the social security policies. It tries to adapt the labor market to the internationalized economic relations and transformed mode of production. Initiating the policies of employability, adaptability, entrepreneurship and equal opportunities, it seeks to activate the labor market and increase employment. It Europeanizes the social policy since it handles the issue as a common object of Europe and seeks a Euro level solution. Nevertheless, workfare measures in this paradigm cause a fear of alignment in Anglo-Saxon model. Strength of settled institutions and attachment of the people to the principles of solidarity and equality are vital aspects preventing to reach that fearful end.

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Towards a convergence of European social models?

Cited by 9 publications

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Minimum Income Protection and European Integration: Trends and Levels of Minimum Benefits in Comparative Perspective, 1990–2005

Minimum Income Protection and European Integration: Trends and Levels of Minimum Benefits in Comparative Perspective, 1990–2005

Managing Development

The New Security Paradigm

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