Maarten Keune
Biographic Data
| ID | 2097049 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maarten Keune |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maarten |
| FAMILY NAME | Keune |
| SIGNATURE | KEUNE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2182-0780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Public procurement and job quality in the Netherlands
Dutch public procurement practices have led to problems with high workloads, low wages, low job autonomy and job insecurity. With reference to four sectors – construction, home care, cleaning and regional bus transport – we discuss two main explanatory dimensions: (i) the financial and institutional context; and (ii) the ideas shaping the normative and cognitive frames of actors that influence their policy-making. Procurers (a) prioritise the che…
Aanbesteden en kwaliteit van werk in Nederland
Public procurement and the quality of labour in the Netherlands In labour-intensive sectors, public procurement’s focus on price competition and efficiency jeopardises job quality. This study shows procurement’s negative impacts in all job quality dimensions in four sectors in the Netherlands. Employing an actor-institutionalist lens, the research investigates these problems by analysing several actor positions, interactions, and orientations. Th…
The revival of Social Europe
Social citizenship as a marble cake
The launch of the European Pillar of Social Rights has reinvigorated the debate on the role that the European Union can exercise in the sphere of subjective rights. Such debate has traditionally focused on the limits of the current social acquis, considered unable to create fully-fledged European social citizenship, that ultimately remains limited to the right to reside and freely move within the EU and enjoy social rights as nationals. Conversel…
Introduction
This introductory article to the Special Issue Marshall in Brussels? A new perspective on social citizenship and the European Union first argues that there is a need for a novel systematic framework that captures the increasingly complex web of relationships between the European level and the national and local levels in the creation and implementation of social rights. It then summarizes the contributions of the articles included in the Special …
Turning post-materialism on its head
This article investigates values of work in the creative industries in the Netherlands by researching whether non-material values of work are more important than material values, and how this is impacted by precarity. Two approaches are evaluated: post-materialist theory and critical research on the creative industries. The results of the vignette survey confirm that the relationship between precarity and non-material work values is not straight …
Covid-19
Work and Labour Relations in Global Platform Capitalism
This engaging and timely book provides an in-depth analysis of work and labour relations within global platform capitalism with a specific focus on digital platforms that organise labour processes, known as labour platforms. Well-respected contributors thoroughly examine both online and offline platforms, their distinct differences and the important roles they play for both large transnational companies and those with a smaller global reach. Chap…
Inequality between capital and labour and among wage-earners
In the context of rising inequality between capital and labour and among wage-earners in Europe, this state-of-the-art article reviews the literature concerning the relationship between collective bargaining and inequality. It focuses on two main questions: (i) what is the relationship between collective bargaining, union bargaining power and inequality between capital and labour? and (ii) what is the relationship between collective bargaining, u…
La répartition fonctionnelle des revenus et les institutions du marché du travail
Les auteurs se demandent si les déclarations des institutions internationales en matière de croissance inclusive sont bien compatibles avec les recommandations formulées par ailleurs. Ils attirent aussi l'attention sur deux éléments clés du débat, souvent ignorés: la répartition fonctionnelle des revenus et la couverture conventionnelle. En utilisant un panel de quarante‐deux pays avancés, suivis de 1990 à 2018, ils montrent que le premier de ces…
De erosie van het poldermodel
The erosion of the Polder model The central thesis of this article is that the formal institutions of the Dutch neo-corporatist model appear to display a remarkable stability and continuity, but that their actual functioning goes through a gradual transformation, whereby the system has essentially changed its character and has been eroded. First of all, the stability and continuity of the most important formal institutions of Dutch neo-corporatis…
Opportunity or threat? How trade union power and preferences shape occupational pensions
In this article, we discuss the role of trade unions in the evolution of occupational pensions in four countries: Austria, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. In all four cases, important reforms have been made to the pension systems, including the consolidation of extensive occupational pensions in the Netherlands, substantial expansion of occupational pensions in Germany, and a continued marginal position of occupational pensions in Austria …
Sixty years after Titmuss
Following the seminal work of Richard Titmuss, who coined the term occupational welfare (OW) 60 years ago, the article approaches OW provision in Europe today. We first define OW as the sum of extra‐statutory social benefits and services provided by employers and/or trade unions as a result of employment. We then look at its recent evolution: OW expenditure and coverage have been increasing significantly in Europe since the 1990s. While pensions …
Understanding varieties of flexibility and security in multinationals
Most studies of flexicurity have focused on formal institutions within distinctive national labour market systems. However, the level and types of flexibility and security in a national labour market are to an important extent influenced by company-level processes, relationships and policies; thus a micro-perspective should be integrated into the study of flexibility and security. This article advances understanding of the influences of decentral…
Working Women Worldwide. Age Effects in Female Labor Force Participation in 117 Countries
In this article, we investigate the effects of economic conditions, families, education, and gender ideologies on the labor force participation rates of women in eleven age groups in 117 countries. We find that participation rates of young and older women are partly explained by sector sizes and the level of economic development. However, to explain the labor force participation rates of women between 25 and 55 years, we need to study families an…
The crisis and social policy
Based on an analysis of collective agreements concluded across the EU in 2008–11, the authors examine their contributions to social policy through provisions for short‐time work, training, wage moderation, and flexibilization of wage setting and working time. They highlight the distinction between the public and private sectors in this respect, contrasting the former's very limited scope for integrative bargaining in the face of mounting budget d…
Flexicurity
‘Flexicurity’ has become an influential concept in academic and political discourse, in particular since the European Commission placed it at the core of the European Employment Strategy. However, the concept is underdeveloped and suffers from a number of serious shortcomings. In this article we discuss a number of its problematic features. In particular, we focus on four aspects: its ambiguity and openness to political capture; its failure to pr…
Flexicurity – a European Approach to Labour Market Policy
Although linguistically somewhat strange, “flexicurity”, the combination of labour market flexibility and security for employees, has become a much praised cornerstone of European labour market policies. Obviously, in an environment with rapid technical progress and frequently changing market conditions, employers need to manage their labour force flexibly. In order to achieve this flexibility without creating an unbearable situation for employee…
The European Social Model and enlargement
This chapter aims to contribute to the further clarification of the relationship between enlargement and the European social model (ESM) through a discussion of welfare state reform and performance in the new member states (NMS). It discusses this relationship from two different perspectives, corresponding to the two major ways of understanding the ESM: the historical acquis perspective and the political project perspective. The first part of the…
Changing Dominant Practice
As discussed in the introduction to this volume, neoinstitutional theory is generally better equipped to deal with continuity and stability than with discontinuity and change. Institutional configurations are often presented as a straightjacket from which endogenous actors cannot escape and which can only be seriously modified through external shocks. However, from time to time endogenous actors do make major and more or less sudden changes. It i…
Innovation, actors and institutions
This article focuses on institutional and policy innovation in two Hungarian regions. We analyse the responses of the local elites in these two regions to the post-1989 challenges and discuss how they have tried to innovate local economic policy in order to promote economic development. Also, we will consider to what extent they have been constrained or facilitated by historically developed institutions. We conclude that the more successful innov…
Working Women Worldwide. Age Effects in Female Labor Force Participation in 117 Countries
In this article, we investigate the effects of economic conditions, families, education, and gender ideologies on the labor force participation rates of women in eleven age groups in 117 countries. We find that participation rates of young and older women are partly explained by sector sizes and the level of economic development. However, to explain the labor force participation rates of women between 25 and 55 years, we need to study families an…
Sixty years after Titmuss
Following the seminal work of Richard Titmuss, who coined the term occupational welfare (OW) 60 years ago, the article approaches OW provision in Europe today. We first define OW as the sum of extra‐statutory social benefits and services provided by employers and/or trade unions as a result of employment. We then look at its recent evolution: OW expenditure and coverage have been increasing significantly in Europe since the 1990s. While pensions …
Social citizenship as a marble cake
The launch of the European Pillar of Social Rights has reinvigorated the debate on the role that the European Union can exercise in the sphere of subjective rights. Such debate has traditionally focused on the limits of the current social acquis, considered unable to create fully-fledged European social citizenship, that ultimately remains limited to the right to reside and freely move within the EU and enjoy social rights as nationals. Conversel…
Introduction
This introductory article to the Special Issue Marshall in Brussels? A new perspective on social citizenship and the European Union first argues that there is a need for a novel systematic framework that captures the increasingly complex web of relationships between the European level and the national and local levels in the creation and implementation of social rights. It then summarizes the contributions of the articles included in the Special …
Innovation, actors and institutions
This article focuses on institutional and policy innovation in two Hungarian regions. We analyse the responses of the local elites in these two regions to the post-1989 challenges and discuss how they have tried to innovate local economic policy in order to promote economic development. Also, we will consider to what extent they have been constrained or facilitated by historically developed institutions. We conclude that the more successful innov…
Turning post-materialism on its head
This article investigates values of work in the creative industries in the Netherlands by researching whether non-material values of work are more important than material values, and how this is impacted by precarity. Two approaches are evaluated: post-materialist theory and critical research on the creative industries. The results of the vignette survey confirm that the relationship between precarity and non-material work values is not straight …
Opportunity or threat? How trade union power and preferences shape occupational pensions
In this article, we discuss the role of trade unions in the evolution of occupational pensions in four countries: Austria, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. In all four cases, important reforms have been made to the pension systems, including the consolidation of extensive occupational pensions in the Netherlands, substantial expansion of occupational pensions in Germany, and a continued marginal position of occupational pensions in Austria …
Innovation, actors and institutions
This article focuses on institutional and policy innovation in two Hungarian regions. We analyse the responses of the local elites in these two regions to the post-1989 challenges and discuss how they have tried to innovate local economic policy in order to promote economic development. Also, we will consider to what extent they have been constrained or facilitated by historically developed institutions. We conclude that the more successful innov…
Changing Dominant Practice
As discussed in the introduction to this volume, neoinstitutional theory is generally better equipped to deal with continuity and stability than with discontinuity and change. Institutional configurations are often presented as a straightjacket from which endogenous actors cannot escape and which can only be seriously modified through external shocks. However, from time to time endogenous actors do make major and more or less sudden changes. It i…
The European Social Model and enlargement
This chapter aims to contribute to the further clarification of the relationship between enlargement and the European social model (ESM) through a discussion of welfare state reform and performance in the new member states (NMS). It discusses this relationship from two different perspectives, corresponding to the two major ways of understanding the ESM: the historical acquis perspective and the political project perspective. The first part of the…
Flexicurity – a European Approach to Labour Market Policy
Although linguistically somewhat strange, “flexicurity”, the combination of labour market flexibility and security for employees, has become a much praised cornerstone of European labour market policies. Obviously, in an environment with rapid technical progress and frequently changing market conditions, employers need to manage their labour force flexibly. In order to achieve this flexibility without creating an unbearable situation for employee…
Flexicurity
‘Flexicurity’ has become an influential concept in academic and political discourse, in particular since the European Commission placed it at the core of the European Employment Strategy. However, the concept is underdeveloped and suffers from a number of serious shortcomings. In this article we discuss a number of its problematic features. In particular, we focus on four aspects: its ambiguity and openness to political capture; its failure to pr…
The crisis and social policy
Based on an analysis of collective agreements concluded across the EU in 2008–11, the authors examine their contributions to social policy through provisions for short‐time work, training, wage moderation, and flexibilization of wage setting and working time. They highlight the distinction between the public and private sectors in this respect, contrasting the former's very limited scope for integrative bargaining in the face of mounting budget d…
Understanding varieties of flexibility and security in multinationals
Most studies of flexicurity have focused on formal institutions within distinctive national labour market systems. However, the level and types of flexibility and security in a national labour market are to an important extent influenced by company-level processes, relationships and policies; thus a micro-perspective should be integrated into the study of flexibility and security. This article advances understanding of the influences of decentral…
Working Women Worldwide. Age Effects in Female Labor Force Participation in 117 Countries
In this article, we investigate the effects of economic conditions, families, education, and gender ideologies on the labor force participation rates of women in eleven age groups in 117 countries. We find that participation rates of young and older women are partly explained by sector sizes and the level of economic development. However, to explain the labor force participation rates of women between 25 and 55 years, we need to study families an…
De erosie van het poldermodel
The erosion of the Polder model The central thesis of this article is that the formal institutions of the Dutch neo-corporatist model appear to display a remarkable stability and continuity, but that their actual functioning goes through a gradual transformation, whereby the system has essentially changed its character and has been eroded. First of all, the stability and continuity of the most important formal institutions of Dutch neo-corporatis…
Opportunity or threat? How trade union power and preferences shape occupational pensions
In this article, we discuss the role of trade unions in the evolution of occupational pensions in four countries: Austria, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. In all four cases, important reforms have been made to the pension systems, including the consolidation of extensive occupational pensions in the Netherlands, substantial expansion of occupational pensions in Germany, and a continued marginal position of occupational pensions in Austria …
Sixty years after Titmuss
Following the seminal work of Richard Titmuss, who coined the term occupational welfare (OW) 60 years ago, the article approaches OW provision in Europe today. We first define OW as the sum of extra‐statutory social benefits and services provided by employers and/or trade unions as a result of employment. We then look at its recent evolution: OW expenditure and coverage have been increasing significantly in Europe since the 1990s. While pensions …
Work and Labour Relations in Global Platform Capitalism
This engaging and timely book provides an in-depth analysis of work and labour relations within global platform capitalism with a specific focus on digital platforms that organise labour processes, known as labour platforms. Well-respected contributors thoroughly examine both online and offline platforms, their distinct differences and the important roles they play for both large transnational companies and those with a smaller global reach. Chap…
Inequality between capital and labour and among wage-earners
In the context of rising inequality between capital and labour and among wage-earners in Europe, this state-of-the-art article reviews the literature concerning the relationship between collective bargaining and inequality. It focuses on two main questions: (i) what is the relationship between collective bargaining, union bargaining power and inequality between capital and labour? and (ii) what is the relationship between collective bargaining, u…
La répartition fonctionnelle des revenus et les institutions du marché du travail
Les auteurs se demandent si les déclarations des institutions internationales en matière de croissance inclusive sont bien compatibles avec les recommandations formulées par ailleurs. Ils attirent aussi l'attention sur deux éléments clés du débat, souvent ignorés: la répartition fonctionnelle des revenus et la couverture conventionnelle. En utilisant un panel de quarante‐deux pays avancés, suivis de 1990 à 2018, ils montrent que le premier de ces…
Covid-19
The revival of Social Europe
Social citizenship as a marble cake
The launch of the European Pillar of Social Rights has reinvigorated the debate on the role that the European Union can exercise in the sphere of subjective rights. Such debate has traditionally focused on the limits of the current social acquis, considered unable to create fully-fledged European social citizenship, that ultimately remains limited to the right to reside and freely move within the EU and enjoy social rights as nationals. Conversel…
Introduction
This introductory article to the Special Issue Marshall in Brussels? A new perspective on social citizenship and the European Union first argues that there is a need for a novel systematic framework that captures the increasingly complex web of relationships between the European level and the national and local levels in the creation and implementation of social rights. It then summarizes the contributions of the articles included in the Special …
Turning post-materialism on its head
This article investigates values of work in the creative industries in the Netherlands by researching whether non-material values of work are more important than material values, and how this is impacted by precarity. Two approaches are evaluated: post-materialist theory and critical research on the creative industries. The results of the vignette survey confirm that the relationship between precarity and non-material work values is not straight …
Aanbesteden en kwaliteit van werk in Nederland
Public procurement and the quality of labour in the Netherlands In labour-intensive sectors, public procurement’s focus on price competition and efficiency jeopardises job quality. This study shows procurement’s negative impacts in all job quality dimensions in four sectors in the Netherlands. Employing an actor-institutionalist lens, the research investigates these problems by analysing several actor positions, interactions, and orientations. Th…
Public procurement and job quality in the Netherlands
Dutch public procurement practices have led to problems with high workloads, low wages, low job autonomy and job insecurity. With reference to four sectors – construction, home care, cleaning and regional bus transport – we discuss two main explanatory dimensions: (i) the financial and institutional context; and (ii) the ideas shaping the normative and cognitive frames of actors that influence their policy-making. Procurers (a) prioritise the che…
Political science (17 works) · Economics (16 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (12 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Economic system (8 works) · Labour economics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works)