Jon Kvist
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 301233 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jon Kvist |
| PRENOMES | Jon |
| SOBRENOME | Kvist |
| ASSINATURA | KVIST J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5560-6590 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 225 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Market failure in a universal welfare state? Ownership, quality, and regulation in Danish social services
Like many other countries, Denmark has recently seen a sharp increase in outsourced social service provision for children and adults. While quasi-market theory suggests that complex social services could be ill-suited to market provision, there has been little assessment of how ownership relates to service quality for welfare services due to fragmented data. This paper presents findings from a population-wide analysis of quality and inspection ou…
Regulating the retirement age—Lessons from Nordic pension policy approaches
The likelihood that longevity will continue to increase has generated a search for regulation that make people work longer as they live longer, and thus not just containing pension expenditure but also enlarging labor supply, economic growth, and tax revenue. In public pension policy, Nordic countries have led the world with three types of approaches aimed at making people retire later. The first came when Sweden, followed by Finland and Norway, …
Going Nordic—Can the Nordic model tackle grand challenges and be a beacon to follow
Nordic countries are known for having extensive welfare services, a highly compressed wage structure owing to strong social partners, as well as effective regulation and governance in public administration. Various typologies capture aspects of the institutional features of families of nations across various policy areas, showing that there is a specific Nordic variant of political economy. While there is an extensive literature focusing on socio…
Scarcity and the Mindsets of Social Welfare Recipients
Financial scarcity is a fundamental condition for recipients of social welfare. We draw on scarcity theory to suggest that the condition of scarce resources may have a range of important psychological consequences for how welfare recipients’ cope with their problems, navigate citizen–state interactions, for their perceived ability to deal with their problems, and for their psychological well-being. In a field experiment using Danish unemployed so…
A Framework for Social Investment Strategies
Since 2013 the European Union has promoted social investments as a national reform strategy to increase individuals’ capacities and national economic growth. However, to take full advantage of social investments, the strategy needs a more coherent framework that takes into account the dynamic and multi-dimensional nature of social issues and social investments. Theoretically, this chapter establishes such a framework consisting of generational, l…
Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
In this introduction to the special issue, we review the various debates spurred by Esping-Andersen’s The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Tracing its impact since the book’s publication in 1990, we show that Three Worlds continues to be the point of reference for comparative welfare state research. A content analysis of articles in the Journal of European Social Policy citing the book indicates that Three Worlds may even have obtained a parad…
A framework for social investment strategies
Do Tax-Benefit Packages Treat Families in the Same Manner When Unemployment Strikes
Social protection against unemployment is on the European agenda because of the economic crisis. Since European family patterns have changed over the last three decades, the social protection for unemployment may be very different during this economic crisis from what it was previously. In particular the combination of more diverse families and high unemployment raises the general question of how today's systems of social protection cater for dif…
Measurement Validity in Comparative Welfare State Research
Examining the generosity of welfare states and individual benefit schemes is a classical task in comparative welfare state studies. Three types of welfare states can be discerned based, in part, on their level of benefit generosity. Although significant advances have been made in the development of measures of welfare state generosity, this progress has not been without its challenges and limitations. In this article, the authors examine two sets…
The post-crisis European social model
This paper offers a theoretical and empirical contribution to our understanding of the changing European social models in wake of the economic crisis and the promotion of social investments by the European Commission. Theoretically, the article provides a conceptual framework for comparative macro-analysis of social investments that takes into account how social investment policies and returns vary over the life-course and are interdependent. Emp…
European Labour Market Policies in (the) Crisis
Changing social inequality and the Nordic welfare model
Changing Social Equality
Changing Social Equality
Equality and the Nordic welfare model: principles, pressures and perspectives ~ Jon Kvist, Johan Fritzell, Bjorn Hvinden and Olli Kangas Anti-immigration attitudes, support for redistribution, and party choice in Europe ~ Henning Finseraas Do we all (dis)like the same welfare state? Configurations of public support for the welfare state in comparative perspective ~ Mads Meier Jaeger Eroding minimum income protection in the Nordic countries ~ Susa…
Changing social inequality and the Nordic welfare model
This introductory chapter describes why and how the Nordic welfare model is interesting in the current era of reforming labour markets and social protection policies. The basic characteristics of the model are set out, with an emphasis on equality. This is followed by a discussion of the debated pressures on the equality aspect of the model that are created by changing demographic trends and globalisation. The demographic trend involves perhaps m…
Has the Nordic Welfare Model Been Transformed
The Nordic welfare model is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Using Denmark we show how a universal welfare state model is gradually being transformed into an emergent multi‐tiered welfare state. Whereas the Danish pension system's having become multi‐tiered in the 1990s, with private schemes – collective and individual – supplementing public schemes is well documented, scant attention has focused on more recent developments in other areas…
Quo Vadis? Forskningens kvalitet og kvantitet
The Europeanisation of social protection
European Union developments and national social protection ~ Juho Saari and Jon Kvist Germany: moving towards Europe but putting national autonomy first ~ Milena Buchs and Karl Hinrichs The United Kingdom: more an economic than a social European ~ Julian Le Grand, Elias Mossialos and Morgan Long France: defending our model ~ Bruno Palier and Luana Petrescu Italy: between indifference, exploitation and the construction of national interest ~ Stefa…
Fuzzy set ideal type analysis
Danish Labour Market Activation Policies
Under the heading of flexicurity, Danish labour market activation policies are receiving international attention because of their perceived ability both to curb unemployment and to boost employment. Indeed, the objectives, target groups and design of activation policy have undergone a remarkable transformation over the past fifteen years. From the initial curbing of unemployment among the insured unemployed through standard activation offers, the…
Diversity, Ideal Types and Fuzzy Sets in Comparative Welfare State Research
Welfare State, Ideal Type, Child Family, Analytical Construct, Empirical Indicator
Idealtyper og fuzzy mængdelære i komparative studier - nordisk familiepolitik i 1990 ́erne som eksempel
Ideal types and fuzzy sets -Exemplified by Nordic family policy in the 1990s Fuzzy-set theory is a new method for the social sciences. It allows for a precise operationalisation of theoretical concepts, the configuration of concepts into analytical constructs such as idealtypes, and the categorisation of cases. In a Weberian sense ideal types are analytical constructs used as yardsticks to measure the similarity and difference between concrete ph…
Nordic Welfare States in the European Context
This important sequel to Nordic Social Policy (Routledge 1999) compares welfare state development over the last twenty years in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden with that of Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and other Western European countries. Topics covered include: * income distribution, health inequalities and gender equality * gender policies, health and social care services and policy reaction to family changes * social secur…
Gender policies and gender equality
Social Security In Europe, Development Or Dismantlement?
1. The Future of the Welfare State. 2. The Emergence and Development of the Welfare State. 3. The Welfare State in Liquidation? 4. The Organization and Financing of the Welfare State. 5. Welfare State Models and Cash Benefits. 6. Welfare States and Unemployment Benefits. 7. Welfare States and Old-Age Pensions.
Does EU Enlargement Start a Race to the Bottom? Strategic Interaction among EU Member States in Social Policy
This article examines whether Eastern enlargement has led the EU 15 member states to enter strategic interactions implying a race to the bottom. The question is whether concerns about welfare migration have led to downward pressure on the EU 15 member states in the form of more restrictive access to their labour markets and adjustments of their social policy benefits. We find little empirical evidence to support the asumption that welfare states …
Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
In this introduction to the special issue, we review the various debates spurred by Esping-Andersen’s The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Tracing its impact since the book’s publication in 1990, we show that Three Worlds continues to be the point of reference for comparative welfare state research. A content analysis of articles in the Journal of European Social Policy citing the book indicates that Three Worlds may even have obtained a parad…
Welfare Reform in the Nordic Countries in the 1990S
This article uses a new method for policy analysis, fuzzy-set theory, which is a framework that allows for a precise operationalization of theoretical concepts. Fuzzy-set theory is used to assess the conformity of the Nordic countries to a pre-conceptualized ideal-typical Nordic welfare model. This permits us to assess recent welfare reform and judge whether changes are of a qualitative or quantitative nature, i.e. whether reform amounts to diffe…
A framework for social investment strategies
The post-crisis European social model
This paper offers a theoretical and empirical contribution to our understanding of the changing European social models in wake of the economic crisis and the promotion of social investments by the European Commission. Theoretically, the article provides a conceptual framework for comparative macro-analysis of social investments that takes into account how social investment policies and returns vary over the life-course and are interdependent. Emp…
Has the Nordic Welfare Model Been Transformed
The Nordic welfare model is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Using Denmark we show how a universal welfare state model is gradually being transformed into an emergent multi‐tiered welfare state. Whereas the Danish pension system's having become multi‐tiered in the 1990s, with private schemes – collective and individual – supplementing public schemes is well documented, scant attention has focused on more recent developments in other areas…
Complexities in Assessing Unemployment Benefits and Policies
Employed workers cannot access unemployment insurance as a matter of choice. Benefit periods and benefit amounts vary between groups in the population. Unemployment benefit recipients have not only rights to benefits but also obligations to meet in order to maintain eligibility. The existence of functional equivalent benefit schemes contributes to benefit transition and substitution. All these aspects are of crucial importance both for the econom…
Scarcity and the Mindsets of Social Welfare Recipients
Financial scarcity is a fundamental condition for recipients of social welfare. We draw on scarcity theory to suggest that the condition of scarce resources may have a range of important psychological consequences for how welfare recipients’ cope with their problems, navigate citizen–state interactions, for their perceived ability to deal with their problems, and for their psychological well-being. In a field experiment using Danish unemployed so…
Parallel Trends, Persistent Diversity
There exists a broad consensus among welfare state researchers that the welfare state has not been retrenched in any fundamental manner. Instead, a process of restructuring is unfolding in response to globalization, European integration and internal pressures. However, the question remains whether welfare state reform has led to convergence on the European scene. This article discusses the new literature on convergence and divergence from a Nordi…
Measurement Validity in Comparative Welfare State Research
Examining the generosity of welfare states and individual benefit schemes is a classical task in comparative welfare state studies. Three types of welfare states can be discerned based, in part, on their level of benefit generosity. Although significant advances have been made in the development of measures of welfare state generosity, this progress has not been without its challenges and limitations. In this article, the authors examine two sets…
Going Nordic—Can the Nordic model tackle grand challenges and be a beacon to follow
Nordic countries are known for having extensive welfare services, a highly compressed wage structure owing to strong social partners, as well as effective regulation and governance in public administration. Various typologies capture aspects of the institutional features of families of nations across various policy areas, showing that there is a specific Nordic variant of political economy. While there is an extensive literature focusing on socio…
Regulating the retirement age—Lessons from Nordic pension policy approaches
The likelihood that longevity will continue to increase has generated a search for regulation that make people work longer as they live longer, and thus not just containing pension expenditure but also enlarging labor supply, economic growth, and tax revenue. In public pension policy, Nordic countries have led the world with three types of approaches aimed at making people retire later. The first came when Sweden, followed by Finland and Norway, …
Scandinavian Activation Strategies in the 1990s
Traditionally Sweden is heralded as epitomising the Scandinavian welfare model, not least to its perceived success in keeping unemployment and labour market inequalities low whilst still securing social protection and economic growth. In contrast, Denmark and Finland have been conceived as the Scandinavian “welfare laggards” primarily due to comparatively rudimentary active labour market policies. The development since 1990 has put an end to that…
Pressures on State Welfare in Post‐industrial Societies
Although contemporary comparative welfare state research has advanced our knowledge of how welfare states respond to exogenous and endogenous pressures, the nature and implications of these pressures themselves on post‐industrial societies remains somewhat unknown. In the research literature phenomena such as globalization, Europeanization, demographics, individualization and changing labour markets are often claimed to put considerable pressure …
Les stratégies scandinaves d'activation dans les années quatre-vingt-dix
La Suède incarne traditionnellement le modèle social scandinave, en particulier parce qu'elle a réussi à maintenir le chômage et les inégalités sur marché du travail à un niveau bas, tout en garantissant protection sociale et croissance économique. Par contraste, le Danemark et la Finlande ont été considérés comme les pays scandinaves à la traîne dans le domaine social, surtout en raison de leurs politiques de l'emploi rudimentaires. Or, depuis l…
Complexities in Assessing Unemployment Benefits and Policies
Employed workers cannot access unemployment insurance as a matter of choice. Benefit periods and benefit amounts vary between groups in the population. Unemployment benefit recipients have not only rights to benefits but also obligations to meet in order to maintain eligibility. The existence of functional equivalent benefit schemes contributes to benefit transition and substitution. All these aspects are of crucial importance both for the econom…
Welfare Reform in the Nordic Countries in the 1990S
This article uses a new method for policy analysis, fuzzy-set theory, which is a framework that allows for a precise operationalization of theoretical concepts. Fuzzy-set theory is used to assess the conformity of the Nordic countries to a pre-conceptualized ideal-typical Nordic welfare model. This permits us to assess recent welfare reform and judge whether changes are of a qualitative or quantitative nature, i.e. whether reform amounts to diffe…
Chapter 12 Activating Welfare States. How social policies can promote employment
Activating Welfare States. How social policies can promote employment
The nexus between the welfare state and the labour market is a classical issue in political economy. Liberals present this as the big trade-off between equality and efficiency; the welfare state is a ‘leaky bucket’ where redistribution distorts the proper functioning of the market by, for example, providing disincentives to work (Okun 1975). In response, socialists have argued that the welfare state is better conceived of as an ‘irrigation system…
Parallel Trends, Persistent Diversity
There exists a broad consensus among welfare state researchers that the welfare state has not been retrenched in any fundamental manner. Instead, a process of restructuring is unfolding in response to globalization, European integration and internal pressures. However, the question remains whether welfare state reform has led to convergence on the European scene. This article discusses the new literature on convergence and divergence from a Nordi…
A Danish welfare miracle? Policies and outcomes in the 1990s
Pressures on State Welfare in Post‐industrial Societies
Although contemporary comparative welfare state research has advanced our knowledge of how welfare states respond to exogenous and endogenous pressures, the nature and implications of these pressures themselves on post‐industrial societies remains somewhat unknown. In the research literature phenomena such as globalization, Europeanization, demographics, individualization and changing labour markets are often claimed to put considerable pressure …
Activating the Unemployed
The last decade has witnessed a conspicuous alteration in policies protecting unemployed people in modern welfare states. Social policies are increasingly designed to encourage economic independence. Policy makers have introduced a wide range of reforms linking disability, unemployment, and welfare programs cash benefits to work-oriented measures.Welfare policies are being framed by a new emphasis on recipients' obligations, emphasizing that the …
Les stratégies scandinaves d'activation dans les années quatre-vingt-dix
La Suède incarne traditionnellement le modèle social scandinave, en particulier parce qu'elle a réussi à maintenir le chômage et les inégalités sur marché du travail à un niveau bas, tout en garantissant protection sociale et croissance économique. Par contraste, le Danemark et la Finlande ont été considérés comme les pays scandinaves à la traîne dans le domaine social, surtout en raison de leurs politiques de l'emploi rudimentaires. Or, depuis l…
Scandinavian Activation Strategies in the 1990s
Traditionally Sweden is heralded as epitomising the Scandinavian welfare model, not least to its perceived success in keeping unemployment and labour market inequalities low whilst still securing social protection and economic growth. In contrast, Denmark and Finland have been conceived as the Scandinavian “welfare laggards” primarily due to comparatively rudimentary active labour market policies. The development since 1990 has put an end to that…
Does EU Enlargement Start a Race to the Bottom? Strategic Interaction among EU Member States in Social Policy
This article examines whether Eastern enlargement has led the EU 15 member states to enter strategic interactions implying a race to the bottom. The question is whether concerns about welfare migration have led to downward pressure on the EU 15 member states in the form of more restrictive access to their labour markets and adjustments of their social policy benefits. We find little empirical evidence to support the asumption that welfare states …
Nordic Welfare States in the European Context
This important sequel to Nordic Social Policy (Routledge 1999) compares welfare state development over the last twenty years in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden with that of Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and other Western European countries. Topics covered include: * income distribution, health inequalities and gender equality * gender policies, health and social care services and policy reaction to family changes * social secur…
Diversity, Ideal Types and Fuzzy Sets in Comparative Welfare State Research
Welfare State, Ideal Type, Child Family, Analytical Construct, Empirical Indicator
Idealtyper og fuzzy mængdelære i komparative studier - nordisk familiepolitik i 1990 ́erne som eksempel
Ideal types and fuzzy sets -Exemplified by Nordic family policy in the 1990s Fuzzy-set theory is a new method for the social sciences. It allows for a precise operationalisation of theoretical concepts, the configuration of concepts into analytical constructs such as idealtypes, and the categorisation of cases. In a Weberian sense ideal types are analytical constructs used as yardsticks to measure the similarity and difference between concrete ph…
The Europeanisation of social protection
European Union developments and national social protection ~ Juho Saari and Jon Kvist Germany: moving towards Europe but putting national autonomy first ~ Milena Buchs and Karl Hinrichs The United Kingdom: more an economic than a social European ~ Julian Le Grand, Elias Mossialos and Morgan Long France: defending our model ~ Bruno Palier and Luana Petrescu Italy: between indifference, exploitation and the construction of national interest ~ Stefa…
Fuzzy set ideal type analysis
Danish Labour Market Activation Policies
Under the heading of flexicurity, Danish labour market activation policies are receiving international attention because of their perceived ability both to curb unemployment and to boost employment. Indeed, the objectives, target groups and design of activation policy have undergone a remarkable transformation over the past fifteen years. From the initial curbing of unemployment among the insured unemployed through standard activation offers, the…
Quo Vadis? Forskningens kvalitet og kvantitet
Changing social inequality and the Nordic welfare model
Changing Social Equality
Changing Social Equality
Equality and the Nordic welfare model: principles, pressures and perspectives ~ Jon Kvist, Johan Fritzell, Bjorn Hvinden and Olli Kangas Anti-immigration attitudes, support for redistribution, and party choice in Europe ~ Henning Finseraas Do we all (dis)like the same welfare state? Configurations of public support for the welfare state in comparative perspective ~ Mads Meier Jaeger Eroding minimum income protection in the Nordic countries ~ Susa…
Changing social inequality and the Nordic welfare model
This introductory chapter describes why and how the Nordic welfare model is interesting in the current era of reforming labour markets and social protection policies. The basic characteristics of the model are set out, with an emphasis on equality. This is followed by a discussion of the debated pressures on the equality aspect of the model that are created by changing demographic trends and globalisation. The demographic trend involves perhaps m…
Has the Nordic Welfare Model Been Transformed
The Nordic welfare model is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Using Denmark we show how a universal welfare state model is gradually being transformed into an emergent multi‐tiered welfare state. Whereas the Danish pension system's having become multi‐tiered in the 1990s, with private schemes – collective and individual – supplementing public schemes is well documented, scant attention has focused on more recent developments in other areas…
European Labour Market Policies in (the) Crisis
Do Tax-Benefit Packages Treat Families in the Same Manner When Unemployment Strikes
Social protection against unemployment is on the European agenda because of the economic crisis. Since European family patterns have changed over the last three decades, the social protection for unemployment may be very different during this economic crisis from what it was previously. In particular the combination of more diverse families and high unemployment raises the general question of how today's systems of social protection cater for dif…
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