Anke Hassel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 290341 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anke Hassel |
| PRENOMES | Anke |
| SOBRENOME | Hassel |
| ASSINATURA | HASSEL A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hertie School |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9976-7129 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 201 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
On Philip Rathgeb’s How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA , Oxford
Shielding competitiveness
We analyse wage developments in Germany during the inflation shock years of 2021–2023 from three perspectives: cost of living, supply-side cost pressure, and relational. With an export-led growth model, Germany is dependent on a favourable real effective exchange rate. Because of its above-average exposure to the energy crisis and low unemployment, Germany was particularly vulnerable to strong wage demands, putting at risk its cost competitivenes…
Growth Coalitions Within a Corporatist Setting
Since the introduction of the euro, German growth has been primarily based on exports. Signs of an exhaustion of Germany's export-led growth model were already evident before the energy crisis of 2022–23, which hit the country hard. German elites could have capitalized on the shock to rebalance their growth strategy. But the opposite happened: the government's adjustment strategy has aimed at doubling down on export-led growth and protecting the …
Governing the work-related risks of AI
This article discusses the risks that artificial intelligence (AI) poses for work. It classifies risks into two types, direct and indirect. Direct risks are AI-induced forms of discrimination, surveillance and information asymmetries at work. Indirect risks are enhanced workplace automation and the increasing ‘fissurisation’ of work. Direct and indirect risks are illustrated using the example of the transport and logistics sector. We discuss poli…
Same Trend, Different Paths
The article reviews the recent advances in comparative political economy. It reconnects knowledge on growth regimes and welfare regimes by analyzing how growth and welfare regimes covary over both time and space. It underlines the fact that governments pursue different growth strategies to adjust to new economic environments, focusing in particular on welfare state reforms. Synthesizing the literature, we propose a definition of growth and welfar…
Round Table. Mission impossible? How to increase collective bargaining coverage in Germany and the EU
Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies
This chapter charts the shape and movement of the growth strategies of the developed democracies since 1945 across three periods: an era of modernization, one of liberalization, and an era of knowledge-based growth, with an emphasis on the relationship between developments in the political economy and changes in the character of electoral politics. It argues that economic policy-making always entails assembling coalitions for policy in both the a…
Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies
Insuring individuals … and politicians
Studies of the rise of private defined-contribution pensions traditionally focus on social policy concerns about the allocation of risks and costs for beneficiaries and employers. There is, however, another – low-salience, financial – dimension of pension privatisation. Regulations introducing minimum return guarantees in private pensions impact financial markets because they incentivise fund managers to invest plan portfolios in fixed-income sec…
The political economy of pension financialisation
Financialisation has become a key feature of post-industrial economies. This special issue sheds light on pre-funded private pensions as one key component of financialisation, as they turn savings into investment via financial services providers. Public pension systems face financial pressures, resulting from ageing and rising public debt, while financial services are keen to move into the market of private pension provision. Pre-funded private p…
Warum es kaum Pensionsfonds in Deutschland gibt. Kapitalmarktrisiken, Finanzindustrie und die Politik der Mindestverzinsung
No Way to Escape Imbalances in the Eurozone? Three Sources for Germany’s Export Dependency
Over the last two decades, the German political economy has increasingly relied on export specialisation as a strategy for economic recovery. This export-led development strategy turned out to be a mixed blessing. While, on the one hand, specialisation in high-quality manufactured goods has preserved Germany’s competitive edge vis-à-vis many other industrialised countries, it has, on the other hand, led to an increasing dependency on exports as t…
Winning the battle or losing the war
The European Union (EU) literature sees increasing market liberalization as a challenge for models of national capitalism. EU liberalization, it is argued, erodes national employment regimes and social protection. However, other scholars highlight the ability of national institutions to reinvent themselves. This contribution assesses these claims by exploring an extreme case of labour market pressure driven by EU liberalization. Focusing on the m…
Le modèle allemand en transition
Public Policy
The Politics of Advanced Capitalism
This book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on capitalism: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge, 1999) and Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism (1985). Both volumes took stock of major economic challenges advanced industrial democracies faced, as well as the ways political and economic elites dealt with them. However, during the last decades, the structural environment of advanced capitalist democraci…
Letter from Berlin
Labor Migration and the German Meat Processing Industry
This article analyzes the challenges of labor migration for both capital and labor within the European Union (EU). It asks how, in a country with traditionally strong unions and employers' associations, it has been possible to create and maintain a segment in the labor market characterized by very low wages and abusive practices. The challenges of mobility within the EU are presented from an institutional perspective, focusing on its effects on m…
Adjustments in the Eurozone
The Paradox of Liberalization — Understanding Dualism and the Recovery of the G erman Political Economy
What do the recent trends in G erman economic development convey about the trajectory of change? Has liberalization prepared the G erman economy to deal with new challenges? What effects will liberalization have on the co‐ordinating capacities of economic institutions? This article argues that co‐ordination and liberalization are two sides of the same coin in the process of corporate restructuring in the face of economic shocks. Firms seek labour…
The German Model in Transition
The Transformation of the German Social Model
Market and state actors' responses to Germany's reunification and its economic repercussions partially liberalized its social model, increasing segmentation between a decreasing core labor force with job security and an increasing proportion of workers with atypical, less secure, and typically lower paid jobs. Collective bargaining was decentralized and its wage-setting role diminished, permitting increased wage dispersion and hours flexibility. …
The Paradox of Liberalization – Understanding Dualism and the Recovery of the German Political Economy
The Paradox of Liberalization – Understanding Dualism and the Recovery of the German Political Economy
Sozialpolitik im Finanzföderalismus – Hartz IV als Antwort auf die Krise der Kommunalfinanzen
Striking deals
The reform of the welfare state entails changes in interdependent policy fields stretching from social policies to employment and wage policies. These linked\npolicy fields are often governed by varying sets of corporate actors and involve different decision-making procedures. Adaptation in one policy field is often unco-ordinated with other policies, and can work at cross-purposes, produce negative externalities, or fail owing to the lack of sup…
The Evolution of a Global Labor Governance Regime
During the last decade, the approach by businesses and governments toward labor and social issues at the global level has fundamentally changed. Industrial relations are rapidly internationalizing by developing new actors and forms of governance to deal with the regulation of labor. This article looks at the evolution of self‐regulatory standards in the global labor governance debate. Key is that notwithstanding problems with the lacking legal fr…
The political economy of pension financialisation
Financialisation has become a key feature of post-industrial economies. This special issue sheds light on pre-funded private pensions as one key component of financialisation, as they turn savings into investment via financial services providers. Public pension systems face financial pressures, resulting from ageing and rising public debt, while financial services are keen to move into the market of private pension provision. Pre-funded private p…
The crumbling pillars of social partnership
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The effects of convergence
The paper examines whether and how the increasing internationalization of firms impacts on the operation of a co-ordinated market economy. Following the tenets of\nagency theory, it assumes that an emerging market for corporate control changes the monitoring mechanisms that oversee management. Since Anglo-American forms of\nmonitoring are usually associated with a higher return for investors compared with Continental European firms, a change in t…
Same Trend, Different Paths
The article reviews the recent advances in comparative political economy. It reconnects knowledge on growth regimes and welfare regimes by analyzing how growth and welfare regimes covary over both time and space. It underlines the fact that governments pursue different growth strategies to adjust to new economic environments, focusing in particular on welfare state reforms. Synthesizing the literature, we propose a definition of growth and welfar…
Winning the battle or losing the war
The European Union (EU) literature sees increasing market liberalization as a challenge for models of national capitalism. EU liberalization, it is argued, erodes national employment regimes and social protection. However, other scholars highlight the ability of national institutions to reinvent themselves. This contribution assesses these claims by exploring an extreme case of labour market pressure driven by EU liberalization. Focusing on the m…
No Way to Escape Imbalances in the Eurozone? Three Sources for Germany’s Export Dependency
Over the last two decades, the German political economy has increasingly relied on export specialisation as a strategy for economic recovery. This export-led development strategy turned out to be a mixed blessing. While, on the one hand, specialisation in high-quality manufactured goods has preserved Germany’s competitive edge vis-à-vis many other industrialised countries, it has, on the other hand, led to an increasing dependency on exports as t…
Growth Coalitions Within a Corporatist Setting
Since the introduction of the euro, German growth has been primarily based on exports. Signs of an exhaustion of Germany's export-led growth model were already evident before the energy crisis of 2022–23, which hit the country hard. German elites could have capitalized on the shock to rebalance their growth strategy. But the opposite happened: the government's adjustment strategy has aimed at doubling down on export-led growth and protecting the …
Twenty Years after German Unification
German unification acted as a catalyst for the substantial transformation of the German welfare and employment regime which has taken place over the last two decades. The changes can be described as a process of a partial liberalization of the labor market within the boundaries of a coordinated industrial relations system and a conservative welfare state. This article depicts the transformation as a trend towards a more liberal welfare and employ…
Labor Migration and the German Meat Processing Industry
This article analyzes the challenges of labor migration for both capital and labor within the European Union (EU). It asks how, in a country with traditionally strong unions and employers' associations, it has been possible to create and maintain a segment in the labor market characterized by very low wages and abusive practices. The challenges of mobility within the EU are presented from an institutional perspective, focusing on its effects on m…
Zwei Dimensionen der Internationalisierung
The Erosion of the German System of Industrial Relations
The paper assesses current trajectories of change in the German system of industrial relations by analysing the co‐determination and collective bargaining systems. It argues that two parallel developments undermine the institutional stability of the German model. First, the institutional base of the German industrial relations system, which has served as the pre‐condition of its past success, has been shrinking during the last two decades. This i…
The role of tripartite concertation in the reform of the welfare state
Tripartite concertation, which has reappeared in several European countries, plays an important role in the current process of welfare reform. This article discusses the need to combine three different policy aims via social pacts between government, employers and trade unions: reducing labour costs, improving work incentives and increasing labour market flexibility. The article analyses two examples of successful social pacts: the Netherlands an…
Bündnisse für Arbeit
Christa Herrmann, Markus Promberger, Susanne Singer und Rainer Trinczek
Zwei Dimensionen der Internationalisierung
Striking deals
The reform of the welfare state entails changes in interdependent policy fields stretching from social policies to employment and wage policies. These linked\npolicy fields are often governed by varying sets of corporate actors and involve different decision-making procedures. Adaptation in one policy field is often unco-ordinated with other policies, and can work at cross-purposes, produce negative externalities, or fail owing to the lack of sup…
The Problem of Political Exchange in Complex Governance Systems
A number of continental states have adopted tripartite concertation in order to reform their welfare and employment regimes. The German welfare state, in contrast, was highly resistant to reform efforts during the 1990s. The article analyses the emergence of tripartite concertation in Germany. It presents two arguments. First, unlike many European countries, Germany encountered major economic problems only from the mid-1990s. Second, the German c…
The Erosion Continues
How stable is the German system of industrial relations?The answer to this question depends on two factors.First, it depends on what we assume to be the important indicators for measuring institutional stability.And second, it depends on what we choose as the benchmark between stability and change.The main concern of Thomas Klikauer's critique of my 'erosion thesis' seems to be the question of how to interpret the existing material.Is the glass h…
The effects of convergence
The paper examines whether and how the increasing internationalization of firms impacts on the operation of a co-ordinated market economy. Following the tenets of\nagency theory, it assumes that an emerging market for corporate control changes the monitoring mechanisms that oversee management. Since Anglo-American forms of\nmonitoring are usually associated with a higher return for investors compared with Continental European firms, a change in t…
The Politics of Social Pacts
The paper develops an analytical framework for the politics of negotiated voluntary wage restraint in the context of social pacts. It argues that, in contrast to earlier political exchanges, tripartite negotiations on wage restraint under restrictive economic policies are not based on a political exchange whereby governments had to compensate trade unions for wage restraint. Rather, governments can threaten trade unions with tight monetary policy…
The crumbling pillars of social partnership
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The Politics of Pension Reforms
About ten years ago, in 1994, the World Bank published a study that advocated multipillar pension systems. The report, Averting the Crisis: Policies Protecting the Old and Promoting Growth (World Bank 1994), set forth a number of arguments why pensions systems should have three pillars: a publicly managed redistributive pillar as protection against poverty, a privately managed mandatory pillar funded by individual contributions, and a voluntary p…
Wage Setting, Social Pacts and the Euro
"European monetary integration has posed tremendous challenges to governments since it removed the tool of currency depreciation previously used for dealing with economic imbalances. As a consequence, governments of member states of the Eurozone have turned to wage setting in order to achieve economic adjustment. In search of ways to adjust wage expectations to economic realities, governments have periodically intervened into wage setting systems…
What Does Business Want? Labour Market Reforms in CMEs and Its Problems
The chapter assesses recent reforms of key labour market institutions such as wage bargaining and the training regime in Germany, in the light of the VoC approach. According to the VoC literature, firms in CMEs generally should have an interest in preserving the institutional capacities to co-ordinate unless the government cannot credibly commit itself to preserving the system. The empirical evidence on firms' behaviour is mixed. On the one hand,…
Policies and Politics in Social Pacts in Europe
Pathways of Change in CMEs
The Evolution of a Global Labor Governance Regime
During the last decade, the approach by businesses and governments toward labor and social issues at the global level has fundamentally changed. Industrial relations are rapidly internationalizing by developing new actors and forms of governance to deal with the regulation of labor. This article looks at the evolution of self‐regulatory standards in the global labor governance debate. Key is that notwithstanding problems with the lacking legal fr…
Policies and Politics in Social Pacts in Europe
This article develops our theoretical understanding of social partnership in Eastern and Western Europe, focusing on two aspects. First, it considers the reasons why both governments as well as social partners sustain social partnership even in the context of tight monetary policy, liberalization and globalization. Second, it explains the differing dynamics of negotiated policies in Eastern and Western Europe. It concludes that the interest const…
Sozialpolitik im Finanzföderalismus – Hartz IV als Antwort auf die Krise der Kommunalfinanzen
Twenty Years after German Unification
German unification acted as a catalyst for the substantial transformation of the German welfare and employment regime which has taken place over the last two decades. The changes can be described as a process of a partial liberalization of the labor market within the boundaries of a coordinated industrial relations system and a conservative welfare state. This article depicts the transformation as a trend towards a more liberal welfare and employ…
The Paradox of Liberalization – Understanding Dualism and the Recovery of the German Political Economy
The Paradox of Liberalization – Understanding Dualism and the Recovery of the German Political Economy
Adjustments in the Eurozone
The Paradox of Liberalization — Understanding Dualism and the Recovery of the G erman Political Economy
What do the recent trends in G erman economic development convey about the trajectory of change? Has liberalization prepared the G erman economy to deal with new challenges? What effects will liberalization have on the co‐ordinating capacities of economic institutions? This article argues that co‐ordination and liberalization are two sides of the same coin in the process of corporate restructuring in the face of economic shocks. Firms seek labour…
The German Model in Transition
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