Between Accommodating and Activating

Framing Policy Reforms in Response to Workforce Aging across Europe

Bibliographic Data

ID12977618
AuthorsAnne C Kroon (0000-0001-7600-7979, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author), R Vliegenthart (0000-0003-2401-2914, University of Amsterdam), Martine Van Selm (0000-0001-9188-4021, University of Amsterdam)
Year2017
Volume22
Issue3
Pages333-356
Publication date2017-05-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe International Journal of Press/Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1940-1612 • E-ISSN: 1040-1620
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1940161217708525
PMID28781719
OpenAlexW2618329630
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited48

In the past decade, European governments have implemented activating policy reforms to maximize older workers' employment and employability, representing a paradigmatic change in approaches to work and retirement. This study isolates the factors that explain the relative success and failure of competitive frames that are either in favor of or against activating policies in European news coverage, by applying time-series analysis (ordinary least squares with panel-corrected standard errors) to monthly aggregated news coverage in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Spain over the timespan 2006-2013. The results show that pro-activating and counteractivating frames generally coincide in competitive framing environments. The pro-activating frame proliferated in times of high employment protection, whereas the counteractivating frame prevailed stronger in conservative compared with progressive newspapers, and gained momentum during the aftermath of the financial crisis and in times governments on the economic left were in power. The study advances knowledge of competitive issue framing by demonstrating how the economic, policy, and political context matters for the emergence and evolvement of competing frames. In addition, the findings contribute to the understanding of the factors that contribute to news representations that promote active aging in European news, which may foster support for policy reforms that sustain older workers' employability

Aging in the American workforce · Economic growth · Economics · Employability · Framing (construction · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Workforce · Engineering · Policy Transfer and Learning · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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