Zhen Jie Im
Biographic Data
| ID | 1087443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zhen Jie Im |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zhen Jie |
| FAMILY NAME | Im |
| SIGNATURE | IM Z J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7854-1382 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Responsibility, risk and climate policy support
In democracies, public support for climate policies can influence governments’ willingness to decarbonise economic production. The relevance of public opinion for climate policies has sparked rich research on this subject. On the one side, research in political science shows that labour market risk associated with climate policies can dampen workers’ support for climate policies. On the other side, research in environmental psychology finds that …
The moral economy of environmental policies: How welfare and environmental attitudes affect environmental policy support
Purpose As popular concerns about climate change grow, political discussions increasingly centre around environmental issues. Unsurprisingly, governments have a strong interest in better understanding public attitudes toward environmental policies. In this context, the paper draws on moral economy theory to explain more fully how attitudes toward welfare state support can affect attitudes toward environmental policy support. Design/methodology/ap…
Big dilemmas, little time: Intergenerational climate justice and public support for deep decarbonisation
Achieving deep decarbonisation to avoid exceeding the 2°C warming threshold remains challenging due to limited public support, largely driven by immediate economic concerns. This study investigates how the awareness of intergenerational climate justice – the unequal distribution of climate-related costs between current and future generations – affects public support for costly decarbonisation policies. A cross-national survey experiment (n = 22,3…
Singaporeans’ subjective social mobility, personal and societal optimism, and political opinions: An exploratory study
Public opinion and the welfare state: Sources, processes, and consequences
A green but also just transition? Variations in social and industrial policy responses to industrial decarbonisation in EU member states
The EU aims for net carbon neutrality by 2050. Since industry contributes substantially to carbon emissions, reforms to decarbonise industry are necessary to achieve this goal. However, these reforms may entail labour market costs in the form of unemployment, which may necessitate social policies to mitigate them. Our article provides a novel contribution to the existing literature by developing a framework to classify how these policy responses …
How Do Non‐Standard Work and Labour Market Policy Spending Shape Preferences for Training Versus Unemployment Benefits in Budgetary Trade‐Offs
This study investigates workers' preferences for expanding training and education at the cost of reducing unemployment benefits in the context of budgetary trade‐offs. It focuses on non‐standard employment types at the individual level and the ratios of expenditures on training and unemployment benefits within labour market policies (LMPs) at the county level. Analysing a dataset that combines European Social Survey Round 8 data (2016) with count…
Technological change and support for redistributive politics
Towards Social Europe? Obstacles and opportunities in the multi‐level governance of welfare states
Social Europe, or the social dimension of the European Union (EU), has been receiving increasing attention in academic debates. This special issue introduction discusses Social Europe through the analytical framework of multi‐level governance while asking, perhaps controversially, whether Social Europe has the potential to become a fully‐fledged welfare state. This introduction also summarises the articles included in this special issue which foc…
Variations in Social Europe? National political parties' positions on EU ‐level social regulations
How do national political parties vary in their views on Social Europe? I focus on an aspect that has received less attention despite its growing prevalence—EU regulations with ambitions to diminish social inequality to encourage social convergence among Member States. Since the Juncker Commission, the European Commission has become increasingly active in pursuing this aspect of Social Europe. Thus, understanding parties' positions on this aspect…
Paying the piper for the Green Transition? Perceptions of unfairness from regional employment declines in carbon-polluting industrial sectors
I study if industrial decarbonisation yields elevated perceptions of political and economic unfairness. Decarbonising industry is central for the Green Transition, but it will disproportionately affect regions where brown sectors, which have been made uncompetitive, are concentrated. I contribute to studies on political consequences of the Green Transition by exploring perceived unfairness as one outcome from these uneven effects. In regions wher…
Fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor and support for redistribution in the Nordic welfare state
The impact of individuals’ fairness predispositions on public support for the welfare state receives less attention than the effect of economic self-interest on this support. Amid growing income differences even in previously egalitarian Nordic countries, predispositions about what is fair in society are rapidly becoming more politically salient. We examine how fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor are linked to the support for t…
European Social Dialogues: Shaping EU Social Policy through Parental Leave Rights
The European Social Dialogue (ESD) has served as the platform for European social partners to negotiate parental leave policies at the European Union (EU) level since 1995. The partners' efforts to revise the regulations in 2015, in response to the European Commission's broader approach toward European work-life balance policies, failed, however, and the reasons for and implications of this failure remain insufficiently explored. Drawing on exist…
An examination of ‘instrumental resources’ in earmarked parental leave: The case of the work–life balance directive
This article examines factors that could contribute to explaining variation in take-up of leave among fathers in the light of the EU’s Work–Life Balance Directive (WLBD). The WLBD seeks to equalize care responsibilities between fathers and mothers, especially through reserved leave, with high compensation. The article begins with a cross-country overview of take-up of leave among eligible fathers, considering earmarking and the degree of compensa…
The EU 's work‐life balance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states
This paper examines institutional change in father‐specific leave ‐ a centre‐piece of the EU's work‐life balance directive (WLBD) ‐ from the perspective of gradual institutional change. The WLBD, a highly contentious directive, represents a litmus test for the possible impact of the European pillar of social rights (EPSR), on welfare state institutions, which are responsible for the organisation, financing and delivery of social rights in member …
With status decline in sight, voters turn radical right: How Do Experience and Expectation of Status Decline Shape Electoral Behaviour
We distinguish between the experience and expectation of subjective status decline in relation to electoral behaviour. Studies often link support for radical parties, especially radical right ones, to voters’ experience of status decline. A few other studies argue that voters’ expectation of status decline also triggers radical right support. Without precise measures of both perceptions, it has been difficult to distinguish which (or both) is mos…
Who gets labour market training? Access biases of social investment in Finland
Policy access biases worry social policy scholars because they generate Matthew effects that exacerbate socioeconomic divides. Yet, access biases in many social investment policies, like training during unemployment, remain under-researched. Such access biases may be detrimental to a critical objective of social investment: to improve and uplift workers with precarious economic prospects. We focus here on access bias in training provided by publi…
Automation and public support for workfare
Automation has permeated workplaces and threatens labour in the production process. Concurrently, European governments have expanded workfare which imposes stringent conditions and sanctions on unemployed workers after the onset of austerity. We explore how automation risk affects workfare support. Recent research finds that most routine workers ‘survive’ in their routine jobs. Despite avoiding unemployment, routine workers may face the threat of…
Welfare chauvinism in times of labour market segmentation: How different employment contracts moderate the impact of welfare chauvinism on support for radical right parties
I examine how different employment contracts moderate the impact of welfare chauvinist preferences on radical right support. Welfare chauvinism has become a cornerstone of radical right’s nativist electoral programme. Yet, there are mixed findings on how welfare chauvinist preferences affect radical right support. While some studies find a positive association, others find little correlation. One reason for such ambiguity is: voters who support w…
Jobs at risk? Task routineness, offshorability, and attitudes toward immigration
In this paper, we study the relationship between occupational vulnerability and attitudes toward immigration in Western Europe. We measure occupational vulnerability as the risk of unemployment due to routine-biased technological change and offshoring of jobs to other countries. Previous empirical studies in political economy have shown that individuals’ policy preferences echo their economic risks and prospects. Workers in low routine occupation…
Automation risk and support for welfare policies: How Does the Threat of Unemployment Affect Demanding Active Labour Market Policy Support
How does unemployment risk affect workers’ support for demanding active labour market policies (ALMPs)? There may be a substantial number of workers who experience unemployment risk from labour market disruptions. Yet, we know less about its impact on demanding ALMP support than the impact of unemployment status. Here, I explore the impact of unemployment risk through automation. Automation-threatened workers’ support for demanding ALMPs may be i…
The “losers of automation”: A reservoir of votes for the radical right
This paper studies the association between the risk of automation and vote choice in 11 West European countries. We extend upon labour economics literature on the effects of automation on the labour market by focusing on the political consequences of automation. We also build on existing work relating labour market risks to support for radical right parties. We argue that automation threat is most likely to increase support for radical right part…
The “losers of automation”: A reservoir of votes for the radical right
This paper studies the association between the risk of automation and vote choice in 11 West European countries. We extend upon labour economics literature on the effects of automation on the labour market by focusing on the political consequences of automation. We also build on existing work relating labour market risks to support for radical right parties. We argue that automation threat is most likely to increase support for radical right part…
With status decline in sight, voters turn radical right: How Do Experience and Expectation of Status Decline Shape Electoral Behaviour
We distinguish between the experience and expectation of subjective status decline in relation to electoral behaviour. Studies often link support for radical parties, especially radical right ones, to voters’ experience of status decline. A few other studies argue that voters’ expectation of status decline also triggers radical right support. Without precise measures of both perceptions, it has been difficult to distinguish which (or both) is mos…
Jobs at risk? Task routineness, offshorability, and attitudes toward immigration
In this paper, we study the relationship between occupational vulnerability and attitudes toward immigration in Western Europe. We measure occupational vulnerability as the risk of unemployment due to routine-biased technological change and offshoring of jobs to other countries. Previous empirical studies in political economy have shown that individuals’ policy preferences echo their economic risks and prospects. Workers in low routine occupation…
Automation risk and support for welfare policies: How Does the Threat of Unemployment Affect Demanding Active Labour Market Policy Support
How does unemployment risk affect workers’ support for demanding active labour market policies (ALMPs)? There may be a substantial number of workers who experience unemployment risk from labour market disruptions. Yet, we know less about its impact on demanding ALMP support than the impact of unemployment status. Here, I explore the impact of unemployment risk through automation. Automation-threatened workers’ support for demanding ALMPs may be i…
Automation and public support for workfare
Automation has permeated workplaces and threatens labour in the production process. Concurrently, European governments have expanded workfare which imposes stringent conditions and sanctions on unemployed workers after the onset of austerity. We explore how automation risk affects workfare support. Recent research finds that most routine workers ‘survive’ in their routine jobs. Despite avoiding unemployment, routine workers may face the threat of…
Paying the piper for the Green Transition? Perceptions of unfairness from regional employment declines in carbon-polluting industrial sectors
I study if industrial decarbonisation yields elevated perceptions of political and economic unfairness. Decarbonising industry is central for the Green Transition, but it will disproportionately affect regions where brown sectors, which have been made uncompetitive, are concentrated. I contribute to studies on political consequences of the Green Transition by exploring perceived unfairness as one outcome from these uneven effects. In regions wher…
The EU 's work‐life balance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states
This paper examines institutional change in father‐specific leave ‐ a centre‐piece of the EU's work‐life balance directive (WLBD) ‐ from the perspective of gradual institutional change. The WLBD, a highly contentious directive, represents a litmus test for the possible impact of the European pillar of social rights (EPSR), on welfare state institutions, which are responsible for the organisation, financing and delivery of social rights in member …
Welfare chauvinism in times of labour market segmentation: How different employment contracts moderate the impact of welfare chauvinism on support for radical right parties
I examine how different employment contracts moderate the impact of welfare chauvinist preferences on radical right support. Welfare chauvinism has become a cornerstone of radical right’s nativist electoral programme. Yet, there are mixed findings on how welfare chauvinist preferences affect radical right support. While some studies find a positive association, others find little correlation. One reason for such ambiguity is: voters who support w…
A green but also just transition? Variations in social and industrial policy responses to industrial decarbonisation in EU member states
The EU aims for net carbon neutrality by 2050. Since industry contributes substantially to carbon emissions, reforms to decarbonise industry are necessary to achieve this goal. However, these reforms may entail labour market costs in the form of unemployment, which may necessitate social policies to mitigate them. Our article provides a novel contribution to the existing literature by developing a framework to classify how these policy responses …
European Social Dialogues: Shaping EU Social Policy through Parental Leave Rights
The European Social Dialogue (ESD) has served as the platform for European social partners to negotiate parental leave policies at the European Union (EU) level since 1995. The partners' efforts to revise the regulations in 2015, in response to the European Commission's broader approach toward European work-life balance policies, failed, however, and the reasons for and implications of this failure remain insufficiently explored. Drawing on exist…
An examination of ‘instrumental resources’ in earmarked parental leave: The case of the work–life balance directive
This article examines factors that could contribute to explaining variation in take-up of leave among fathers in the light of the EU’s Work–Life Balance Directive (WLBD). The WLBD seeks to equalize care responsibilities between fathers and mothers, especially through reserved leave, with high compensation. The article begins with a cross-country overview of take-up of leave among eligible fathers, considering earmarking and the degree of compensa…
Who gets labour market training? Access biases of social investment in Finland
Policy access biases worry social policy scholars because they generate Matthew effects that exacerbate socioeconomic divides. Yet, access biases in many social investment policies, like training during unemployment, remain under-researched. Such access biases may be detrimental to a critical objective of social investment: to improve and uplift workers with precarious economic prospects. We focus here on access bias in training provided by publi…
Technological change and support for redistributive politics
Towards Social Europe? Obstacles and opportunities in the multi‐level governance of welfare states
Social Europe, or the social dimension of the European Union (EU), has been receiving increasing attention in academic debates. This special issue introduction discusses Social Europe through the analytical framework of multi‐level governance while asking, perhaps controversially, whether Social Europe has the potential to become a fully‐fledged welfare state. This introduction also summarises the articles included in this special issue which foc…
Fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor and support for redistribution in the Nordic welfare state
The impact of individuals’ fairness predispositions on public support for the welfare state receives less attention than the effect of economic self-interest on this support. Amid growing income differences even in previously egalitarian Nordic countries, predispositions about what is fair in society are rapidly becoming more politically salient. We examine how fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor are linked to the support for t…
Singaporeans’ subjective social mobility, personal and societal optimism, and political opinions: An exploratory study
The “losers of automation”: A reservoir of votes for the radical right
This paper studies the association between the risk of automation and vote choice in 11 West European countries. We extend upon labour economics literature on the effects of automation on the labour market by focusing on the political consequences of automation. We also build on existing work relating labour market risks to support for radical right parties. We argue that automation threat is most likely to increase support for radical right part…
Welfare chauvinism in times of labour market segmentation: How different employment contracts moderate the impact of welfare chauvinism on support for radical right parties
I examine how different employment contracts moderate the impact of welfare chauvinist preferences on radical right support. Welfare chauvinism has become a cornerstone of radical right’s nativist electoral programme. Yet, there are mixed findings on how welfare chauvinist preferences affect radical right support. While some studies find a positive association, others find little correlation. One reason for such ambiguity is: voters who support w…
Jobs at risk? Task routineness, offshorability, and attitudes toward immigration
In this paper, we study the relationship between occupational vulnerability and attitudes toward immigration in Western Europe. We measure occupational vulnerability as the risk of unemployment due to routine-biased technological change and offshoring of jobs to other countries. Previous empirical studies in political economy have shown that individuals’ policy preferences echo their economic risks and prospects. Workers in low routine occupation…
Automation risk and support for welfare policies: How Does the Threat of Unemployment Affect Demanding Active Labour Market Policy Support
How does unemployment risk affect workers’ support for demanding active labour market policies (ALMPs)? There may be a substantial number of workers who experience unemployment risk from labour market disruptions. Yet, we know less about its impact on demanding ALMP support than the impact of unemployment status. Here, I explore the impact of unemployment risk through automation. Automation-threatened workers’ support for demanding ALMPs may be i…
Automation and public support for workfare
Automation has permeated workplaces and threatens labour in the production process. Concurrently, European governments have expanded workfare which imposes stringent conditions and sanctions on unemployed workers after the onset of austerity. We explore how automation risk affects workfare support. Recent research finds that most routine workers ‘survive’ in their routine jobs. Despite avoiding unemployment, routine workers may face the threat of…
Who gets labour market training? Access biases of social investment in Finland
Policy access biases worry social policy scholars because they generate Matthew effects that exacerbate socioeconomic divides. Yet, access biases in many social investment policies, like training during unemployment, remain under-researched. Such access biases may be detrimental to a critical objective of social investment: to improve and uplift workers with precarious economic prospects. We focus here on access bias in training provided by publi…
An examination of ‘instrumental resources’ in earmarked parental leave: The case of the work–life balance directive
This article examines factors that could contribute to explaining variation in take-up of leave among fathers in the light of the EU’s Work–Life Balance Directive (WLBD). The WLBD seeks to equalize care responsibilities between fathers and mothers, especially through reserved leave, with high compensation. The article begins with a cross-country overview of take-up of leave among eligible fathers, considering earmarking and the degree of compensa…
The EU 's work‐life balance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states
This paper examines institutional change in father‐specific leave ‐ a centre‐piece of the EU's work‐life balance directive (WLBD) ‐ from the perspective of gradual institutional change. The WLBD, a highly contentious directive, represents a litmus test for the possible impact of the European pillar of social rights (EPSR), on welfare state institutions, which are responsible for the organisation, financing and delivery of social rights in member …
With status decline in sight, voters turn radical right: How Do Experience and Expectation of Status Decline Shape Electoral Behaviour
We distinguish between the experience and expectation of subjective status decline in relation to electoral behaviour. Studies often link support for radical parties, especially radical right ones, to voters’ experience of status decline. A few other studies argue that voters’ expectation of status decline also triggers radical right support. Without precise measures of both perceptions, it has been difficult to distinguish which (or both) is mos…
Towards Social Europe? Obstacles and opportunities in the multi‐level governance of welfare states
Social Europe, or the social dimension of the European Union (EU), has been receiving increasing attention in academic debates. This special issue introduction discusses Social Europe through the analytical framework of multi‐level governance while asking, perhaps controversially, whether Social Europe has the potential to become a fully‐fledged welfare state. This introduction also summarises the articles included in this special issue which foc…
Variations in Social Europe? National political parties' positions on EU ‐level social regulations
How do national political parties vary in their views on Social Europe? I focus on an aspect that has received less attention despite its growing prevalence—EU regulations with ambitions to diminish social inequality to encourage social convergence among Member States. Since the Juncker Commission, the European Commission has become increasingly active in pursuing this aspect of Social Europe. Thus, understanding parties' positions on this aspect…
Paying the piper for the Green Transition? Perceptions of unfairness from regional employment declines in carbon-polluting industrial sectors
I study if industrial decarbonisation yields elevated perceptions of political and economic unfairness. Decarbonising industry is central for the Green Transition, but it will disproportionately affect regions where brown sectors, which have been made uncompetitive, are concentrated. I contribute to studies on political consequences of the Green Transition by exploring perceived unfairness as one outcome from these uneven effects. In regions wher…
Fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor and support for redistribution in the Nordic welfare state
The impact of individuals’ fairness predispositions on public support for the welfare state receives less attention than the effect of economic self-interest on this support. Amid growing income differences even in previously egalitarian Nordic countries, predispositions about what is fair in society are rapidly becoming more politically salient. We examine how fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor are linked to the support for t…
European Social Dialogues: Shaping EU Social Policy through Parental Leave Rights
The European Social Dialogue (ESD) has served as the platform for European social partners to negotiate parental leave policies at the European Union (EU) level since 1995. The partners' efforts to revise the regulations in 2015, in response to the European Commission's broader approach toward European work-life balance policies, failed, however, and the reasons for and implications of this failure remain insufficiently explored. Drawing on exist…
Singaporeans’ subjective social mobility, personal and societal optimism, and political opinions: An exploratory study
Public opinion and the welfare state: Sources, processes, and consequences
A green but also just transition? Variations in social and industrial policy responses to industrial decarbonisation in EU member states
The EU aims for net carbon neutrality by 2050. Since industry contributes substantially to carbon emissions, reforms to decarbonise industry are necessary to achieve this goal. However, these reforms may entail labour market costs in the form of unemployment, which may necessitate social policies to mitigate them. Our article provides a novel contribution to the existing literature by developing a framework to classify how these policy responses …
How Do Non‐Standard Work and Labour Market Policy Spending Shape Preferences for Training Versus Unemployment Benefits in Budgetary Trade‐Offs
This study investigates workers' preferences for expanding training and education at the cost of reducing unemployment benefits in the context of budgetary trade‐offs. It focuses on non‐standard employment types at the individual level and the ratios of expenditures on training and unemployment benefits within labour market policies (LMPs) at the county level. Analysing a dataset that combines European Social Survey Round 8 data (2016) with count…
Technological change and support for redistributive politics
Responsibility, risk and climate policy support
In democracies, public support for climate policies can influence governments’ willingness to decarbonise economic production. The relevance of public opinion for climate policies has sparked rich research on this subject. On the one side, research in political science shows that labour market risk associated with climate policies can dampen workers’ support for climate policies. On the other side, research in environmental psychology finds that …
The moral economy of environmental policies: How welfare and environmental attitudes affect environmental policy support
Purpose As popular concerns about climate change grow, political discussions increasingly centre around environmental issues. Unsurprisingly, governments have a strong interest in better understanding public attitudes toward environmental policies. In this context, the paper draws on moral economy theory to explain more fully how attitudes toward welfare state support can affect attitudes toward environmental policy support. Design/methodology/ap…
Big dilemmas, little time: Intergenerational climate justice and public support for deep decarbonisation
Achieving deep decarbonisation to avoid exceeding the 2°C warming threshold remains challenging due to limited public support, largely driven by immediate economic concerns. This study investigates how the awareness of intergenerational climate justice – the unequal distribution of climate-related costs between current and future generations – affects public support for costly decarbonisation policies. A cross-national survey experiment (n = 22,3…
Political science (16 works) · Politics (15 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (7 works) · Welfare (7 works)