Business, labour and the costs of welfare state development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12255669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dennie Oude Nijhuis (0000-0003-2595-5199, Leiden University, The Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 20-33 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of European Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0958-9287 • E-ISSN: 1461-7269 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0958928719855309 |
| OpenAlex | W2964716605 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 27 |
This article presents a novel explanation for instances of business support for welfare state expansion. It emphasizes the importance of cost considerations in shaping business preferences and argues that their willingness to support and ability to oppose demands for increases in the generosity of social insurance programmes depends primarily on the extent to which labour unions accept that these increases are to be financed by workers themselves. Based on a comparative-historical analysis of postwar welfare state development in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, the article shows that this willingness among others depended on the type of labour market risk, the margin for pay increases, and the extent to which social welfare initiatives were perceived as actual improvements to the social wage by labour unions
Economics · Generosity · Labour economics · Margin (machine learning · Market economy · Political science · Public economics · Social insurance · Social Welfare · State (computer science · Wage · Welfare · Welfare state · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |