Towards a theory of transitional labour markets

Schmid, Günther

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“…With increasing labour market volatility and selectivity, transitions into and out of employment have become rather more frequent and, at certain stages of the life cycle in particular, more protracted (cf. Schmid 2002). The decline of industrial production has also resulted in the permanent disappearance of the principal repository of unskilled manual jobs, with the result that labour market integration has become more heavily dependent on individual skills and experience (Berman et al 1998;McIntosh 2004).…”

Section: Post-industrial Labour Markets and The Limits Of Unemploymenmentioning

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Beyond Activation Reforming European Unemployment Protection Systems in Post-Industrial Labour Markets

2006

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Though activation has been a key theme in recent comparative scholarship on social policy, existing research has arguably failed to capture some important cross-national differences in the extent of welfare state adaptation it entails. Conceptualising activation as but one unemployment policy reform indicator alongside 'unemployment support homogenisation' and 'unemployment policy co-ordination', and empirically sketching reform trends in four European states, this article argues it is possible to identify a cleavage between countries where activation policies are part of an unambiguous adaptation of labour market policies to the emergent postindustrial economy, and countries in which similar trends of policy adaptation have been more constrained, hesitant and uneven. To account for this fracture it is necessary to understand the differing ways that conventional unemployment policies were institutionally articulated within national political economies, as this bears on the feasibility of a new paradigm of labour market regulation emerging.

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Section: Post-industrial Labour Markets and The Limits Of Unemploymenmentioning

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Beyond Activation Reforming European Unemployment Protection Systems in Post-Industrial Labour Markets

2006

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“…The transitional labour market8 points to the active labour market policy (ALMP) measures that are located between overt unemployment and employment in the open labour market. In Western societies, it is generally difficult to ‘survive’ as unemployed without participating in measures that range from short courses aimed at promoting job seeking skills, to long-term occupational training with integrated periods of work and to state subsidised job creation schemes.…”

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The health effects of employment

Virtanen

2014

Occup Environ Med

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“…As Schmid (1998, 2000, 2002a, 2002b) argues, employees in advanced Western economies are increasingly being faced with consecutive transitions in their labour careers. These may be both transitions within the sphere of employment (from one job or ‘working hours regime’ to another) and transitions from employment to other social activities (care, education, leisure, but also temporary unemployment and illness).…”

Section: Transitional Labour Markets Social Security and Social Exclmentioning

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“…This article focuses on the dependence of ethnic minority workers living in the Netherlands on incapacity benefits. Following new theoretical insights about ‘transitional labour markets’ (TLM) (Schmid 1998, 2000, 2002a, 2002b), we will focus more specifically on the extent to which social benefit claimants with a minority background are able to escape from incapacity benefits and return to the labour market. TLM theorists like Schmid argue that, in contemporary labour markets, having a social benefit as such is not a great problem provided that the situation is temporary and social benefit claimants are not irrevocably excluded from the labour market.…”

Section: Introduction: Minority Workers and Dependence On Social Benementioning

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Back to Work after Incapacity Benefit: Differences between Ethnic Minority and Native Dutch Workers

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Linder

2008

Soc Policy Adm

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Contemporary pleas for an activating welfare state and social security system emphasize that getting benefit claimants back to work is more important than providing income compensation for social risks connected with unemployment or illness. The Dutch system of incapacity benefits, however, is far removed from this normative ideal of a proactive social security system. Resumption of work after a spell of incapacity benefit is the exception rather than the rule. This article examines possible ethnic differences in resumption of work following incapacity benefit. We use a unique register data file from Statistics Netherlands that contains information about all incapacity benefit claimants in the Netherlands in 1999 . In the analysis we follow these benefit claimants for three years and examine what their labour market position was in 2002 . We find that resumption of work after incapacity benefit is even more the exception for migrant workers with a Turkish or Moroccan ethnic background. Contrary to our assumption, this difference from native Dutch workers cannot be explained by unfavourable personal characteristics of Turkish or Moroccan benefit claimants -their personal characteristics (gender, age, low educational level) appear to be rather favourable for resumption of work. In the current literature, these differences in outcomes between ethnic groups are often attributed to certain 'ethnic-specific' or cultural factors. This article argues that we should be careful of explaining different outcomes between ethnic groups by (alleged) cultural phenomena. There are other explanations possible such as differences in work motivation, lack of 'transition facilities' in companies and differential treatment by employers or social security officials.

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Towards a theory of transitional labour markets

Cited by 17 publications

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Beyond Activation Reforming European Unemployment Protection Systems in Post-Industrial Labour Markets

Beyond Activation Reforming European Unemployment Protection Systems in Post-Industrial Labour Markets

The health effects of employment

Back to Work after Incapacity Benefit: Differences between Ethnic Minority and Native Dutch Workers

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