Gunther Schmid
Biographic Data
| ID | 282979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gunther Schmid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gunther |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmid |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMID G |
| AFFILIATIONS | WZB Berlin Social Science Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond European unemployment insurance. Less moral hazard, more moral assurance
The compromise that emerged from the lengthy debate on European unemployment insurance (EUI) involved the establishment of a ‘European Unemployment Reinsurance Scheme’. However, it was not until the shock waves of the COVID-19 pandemic were felt that any specific measures were actually taken to establish such a scheme. The reasons for such prevarication were, first, doubts as to whether moral hazard can be kept under control and, second, the huge…
Europa in Arbeit
Prominent economists and social scientists consider the central cause for the current crisis in Europe to be the euro. The political and economic costs of giving up the euro, however, would be tremendous. The euro, could, in fact, be the key issue for a project of “Social Europe”, if only the prevalent financial capitalism were to be countered by a realistic policy of new full employment through inclusive growth. This article provides concrete re…
Towards Employment Insurance?
New social risks have arisen due to the deepening of global labour division and the invasion of digital technologies into the production of goods and the delivery of services, but also due to changing preferences and individual work capacities over the life course. As these risks are not only connected with unemployment but also with income volatility due to critical life-course transitions (in particular, between family work and labour-market wo…
Sharing Risks
Social risks are likely events related to social actions that imply individual losses of calculable probability if they occur and gains if they do not occur. Risks related to the labour market were shared among men and governed by the state or trade unions organized as industrial risk communities. The impact of the escalating risks associated with human capital investment returns is twofold and ambiguous. On one hand, it feeds the tendency toward…
Labour Market Policy for ‘Active Ageing’ in Europe
Based on the theory of Transitional Labour Markets (TLM), this article derives normative criteria for ‘active ageing’. We argue why and under what conditions more employment for older people can help to improve their quality of life and can thus be considered an important part of future social policy. To this end, the article presents a brief review of the employment situation of older workers (aged 55–64) in the different European countries so a…
Gewährleistungsstaat und Arbeitsmarkt
The model of the “ensuring state” determines also the reform agenda of the German labour market, evidenced for instance in slogans such as “Fördern and Fordern” (actively supporting and demanding). The article defines the most important elements of this model and tests the concept using the reformed German “Federal Agency for Labour” as an example. Objectives and experiences of these reforms are compared with the analytical and normative premises…
Social risk management through transitional labour markets
This essay takes the intrusion of the term ‘risk management’ into the social policy discourse as a ‘moral opportunity’ to reconsider the balance between solidarity and individual responsibility. The argument is developed in three stages: first, the psychology of intuitive beliefs and choices provides evidence of the bounded rationality of risky choices. The paper demonstrates how the institutionalization of opportunity structures recommended by t…
Gleichheit und Effizienz auf dem Arbeitsmarkt
The Dynamics of Full Employment
Persistent unemployment is recognised as one of the main mechanisms of social and political exclusion. The Dynamics of Full Employment provides a new and fresh approach to the question of full employment in contemporary society. It offers an internationally comparative, interdisciplinary approach to the dynamics of full employment and views the labour market not only as an economic institution, but as a social one.
Dynamics of Full Employment
Labour Markets, Gender and Institutional Change
Arbeitsmärkte für Künstler und Publizisten
The growing segment of artists and journalists provides rich insights into the possible future of the labour market. Many artists work under structural conditions of professional networks which give them an ambivalent position between dependent wage workers and autonomous entrepreneurs. Such employment relations hint to a more realistic strategy of job creation than the strategy to increase the traditional low wage sector, the non-profit sector o…
Bargaining Power of Smaller States in Germany's Länderfinanzausgleich 1979–90
The Evaluation of Labour Market Policy
Over the past two decades, all major industrial western societies have been plagued with increasing unemployment. The member states of the European Union have been particularly hit by this phenomenon. Corresponding re- employment strategies, notably in the White Book of the European Commission in 1993, were formulated. But these proposals are still contested, partly because of lack of knowledge about the impact of existing policies. Thus, there i…
International Handbook of Labour Market Policy and Evaluation
This is a detailed, up-to-date guide to different national labour markets, and policies to combat unemployment and their outcomes. It provides a coherent, systematic framework for the rapidly growing field of labour market policy.
Institutional incentives to prevent unemployment
Unemployment Insurance and Active Labor Market Policy
Beschäftigungs- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik
Arbeitsmarktpolitik, Beschäftigungspolitik, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, historische Entwicklung
Staatstätigkeit
Do Institutions Make a Difference? Financing Systems of Labor Market Policy
In recent years the hopes of finding a solution for the puzzle of mass unemployment shifted to labor market institutions such as the system of regulation and industrial relations. The following study takes up a much neglected aspect of labor market institutions, the issue of financing labor market policy. After developing the analytical framework, the systems of financing labor market policy in six countries are briefly described. Next are analyz…
Sex Discrimination and Equal Opportunity
Entscheidung in Bonn
Entscheidung in Bonn
The Development of Labour Market Policy in Sweden and in Germany
This study consists of three parts. The first part defines the objectives of the country‐comparison Sweden‐Germany, and it describes the strategical options which are available for a selective manpower policy: demand strategy, supply strategy, mobilisation strategy and compensatory strategy. The second part deals with some policy consequences following from new international trends in employment and unemployment. Special consideration is given to…
The Impact of Selective Employment Policy
Social risk management through transitional labour markets
This essay takes the intrusion of the term ‘risk management’ into the social policy discourse as a ‘moral opportunity’ to reconsider the balance between solidarity and individual responsibility. The argument is developed in three stages: first, the psychology of intuitive beliefs and choices provides evidence of the bounded rationality of risky choices. The paper demonstrates how the institutionalization of opportunity structures recommended by t…
The Development of Labour Market Policy in Sweden and in Germany
This study consists of three parts. The first part defines the objectives of the country‐comparison Sweden‐Germany, and it describes the strategical options which are available for a selective manpower policy: demand strategy, supply strategy, mobilisation strategy and compensatory strategy. The second part deals with some policy consequences following from new international trends in employment and unemployment. Special consideration is given to…
Labour Market Policy for ‘Active Ageing’ in Europe
Based on the theory of Transitional Labour Markets (TLM), this article derives normative criteria for ‘active ageing’. We argue why and under what conditions more employment for older people can help to improve their quality of life and can thus be considered an important part of future social policy. To this end, the article presents a brief review of the employment situation of older workers (aged 55–64) in the different European countries so a…
Do Institutions Make a Difference? Financing Systems of Labor Market Policy
In recent years the hopes of finding a solution for the puzzle of mass unemployment shifted to labor market institutions such as the system of regulation and industrial relations. The following study takes up a much neglected aspect of labor market institutions, the issue of financing labor market policy. After developing the analytical framework, the systems of financing labor market policy in six countries are briefly described. Next are analyz…
Bargaining Power of Smaller States in Germany's Länderfinanzausgleich 1979–90
Unemployment Insurance and Active Labor Market Policy
The Impact of Selective Employment Policy
Entscheidung in Bonn
Entscheidung in Bonn
The Development of Labour Market Policy in Sweden and in Germany
This study consists of three parts. The first part defines the objectives of the country‐comparison Sweden‐Germany, and it describes the strategical options which are available for a selective manpower policy: demand strategy, supply strategy, mobilisation strategy and compensatory strategy. The second part deals with some policy consequences following from new international trends in employment and unemployment. Special consideration is given to…
Sex Discrimination and Equal Opportunity
Staatstätigkeit
Do Institutions Make a Difference? Financing Systems of Labor Market Policy
In recent years the hopes of finding a solution for the puzzle of mass unemployment shifted to labor market institutions such as the system of regulation and industrial relations. The following study takes up a much neglected aspect of labor market institutions, the issue of financing labor market policy. After developing the analytical framework, the systems of financing labor market policy in six countries are briefly described. Next are analyz…
Beschäftigungs- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik
Arbeitsmarktpolitik, Beschäftigungspolitik, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, historische Entwicklung
Institutional incentives to prevent unemployment
Unemployment Insurance and Active Labor Market Policy
International Handbook of Labour Market Policy and Evaluation
This is a detailed, up-to-date guide to different national labour markets, and policies to combat unemployment and their outcomes. It provides a coherent, systematic framework for the rapidly growing field of labour market policy.
The Evaluation of Labour Market Policy
Over the past two decades, all major industrial western societies have been plagued with increasing unemployment. The member states of the European Union have been particularly hit by this phenomenon. Corresponding re- employment strategies, notably in the White Book of the European Commission in 1993, were formulated. But these proposals are still contested, partly because of lack of knowledge about the impact of existing policies. Thus, there i…
Arbeitsmärkte für Künstler und Publizisten
The growing segment of artists and journalists provides rich insights into the possible future of the labour market. Many artists work under structural conditions of professional networks which give them an ambivalent position between dependent wage workers and autonomous entrepreneurs. Such employment relations hint to a more realistic strategy of job creation than the strategy to increase the traditional low wage sector, the non-profit sector o…
Bargaining Power of Smaller States in Germany's Länderfinanzausgleich 1979–90
The Dynamics of Full Employment
Persistent unemployment is recognised as one of the main mechanisms of social and political exclusion. The Dynamics of Full Employment provides a new and fresh approach to the question of full employment in contemporary society. It offers an internationally comparative, interdisciplinary approach to the dynamics of full employment and views the labour market not only as an economic institution, but as a social one.
Dynamics of Full Employment
Labour Markets, Gender and Institutional Change
Gleichheit und Effizienz auf dem Arbeitsmarkt
Gewährleistungsstaat und Arbeitsmarkt
The model of the “ensuring state” determines also the reform agenda of the German labour market, evidenced for instance in slogans such as “Fördern and Fordern” (actively supporting and demanding). The article defines the most important elements of this model and tests the concept using the reformed German “Federal Agency for Labour” as an example. Objectives and experiences of these reforms are compared with the analytical and normative premises…
Social risk management through transitional labour markets
This essay takes the intrusion of the term ‘risk management’ into the social policy discourse as a ‘moral opportunity’ to reconsider the balance between solidarity and individual responsibility. The argument is developed in three stages: first, the psychology of intuitive beliefs and choices provides evidence of the bounded rationality of risky choices. The paper demonstrates how the institutionalization of opportunity structures recommended by t…
Labour Market Policy for ‘Active Ageing’ in Europe
Based on the theory of Transitional Labour Markets (TLM), this article derives normative criteria for ‘active ageing’. We argue why and under what conditions more employment for older people can help to improve their quality of life and can thus be considered an important part of future social policy. To this end, the article presents a brief review of the employment situation of older workers (aged 55–64) in the different European countries so a…
Sharing Risks
Social risks are likely events related to social actions that imply individual losses of calculable probability if they occur and gains if they do not occur. Risks related to the labour market were shared among men and governed by the state or trade unions organized as industrial risk communities. The impact of the escalating risks associated with human capital investment returns is twofold and ambiguous. On one hand, it feeds the tendency toward…
Towards Employment Insurance?
New social risks have arisen due to the deepening of global labour division and the invasion of digital technologies into the production of goods and the delivery of services, but also due to changing preferences and individual work capacities over the life course. As these risks are not only connected with unemployment but also with income volatility due to critical life-course transitions (in particular, between family work and labour-market wo…
Europa in Arbeit
Prominent economists and social scientists consider the central cause for the current crisis in Europe to be the euro. The political and economic costs of giving up the euro, however, would be tremendous. The euro, could, in fact, be the key issue for a project of “Social Europe”, if only the prevalent financial capitalism were to be countered by a realistic policy of new full employment through inclusive growth. This article provides concrete re…
Beyond European unemployment insurance. Less moral hazard, more moral assurance
The compromise that emerged from the lengthy debate on European unemployment insurance (EUI) involved the establishment of a ‘European Unemployment Reinsurance Scheme’. However, it was not until the shock waves of the COVID-19 pandemic were felt that any specific measures were actually taken to establish such a scheme. The reasons for such prevarication were, first, doubts as to whether moral hazard can be kept under control and, second, the huge…
Economics (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (14 works) · Labour economics (11 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Unemployment (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Macroeconomics (6 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works)