Social inclusion in the knowledge economy
Unions' strategies and institutional change in the Austrian and German training systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4237398 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Niccolo Durazzi (0000-0001-7581-5595, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author), Leonard Geyer (0009-0005-6680-0398, European Centre for Social Policy and Welfare Research, 1090 Vienna, Austria) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 103-124 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Socio-Economic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1475-1461 • E-ISSN: 1475-147X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/soceco/mwz010 |
| OpenAlex | W2922091628 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 46 |
As skill formation systems are increasingly under pressure from de-industrialization and the rise of knowledge economies, their ability to include the low-skilled has been strained. But what determines how skill formation systems adjust to this challenge? By explaining the divergence of two most-similar systems, those of Austria and Germany, the article highlights the key role of trade unions and of the institutional resources and legacies available to them. Where institutional resources are high and legacies positive, as in Austria, unions were crucial in setting an inclusive pathway of reform of the training system. Where, on the contrary, institutional resources are low and legacies negative, as in Germany, unions' strategies for inclusion failed, paving the way to a dualizing outcome. The article therefore provides a novel analysis of institutional change in skill formation systems, while also offering broader insights on the relationship between coordinated and egalitarian capitalism in post-industrial knowledge-based economies
Capitalism · Divergence (linguistics · Economic system · Economics · Economy · German · German economy · Inclusion (mineral · Industrialisation · Institutional change · Knowledge economy · Market economy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Labor Movements and Unions · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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The Polysemy of Skills
Comparative VET European research since the 1980s
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Creating Apprenticeships in Switzerland
Integration through vocational training. Promoting refugees’ access to apprenticeships in a collective skill formation system
Social partner involvement in collective skill formation governance. A comparison of Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland
Dualisation as Class Conflict
‘How’ and ‘why’ cannot be separated
Roads and Barriers towards Social Investments
Social inclusion and collective skill formation systems
Conflictual and consensual class relations in collective governance
The culture of education regimes
Education as social policy
Aligning active labor market policies with national growth strategies
The political economy of policy instruments
State Intervention in Vocational Education
Problems and Solutions in the Knowledge Economy
Engineering the expansion of higher education
Shaping institutional change in skill formation
The limits of decentralized cooperation
Setting the terms of state intervention
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How Coordinated Capitalism Adapts to the Knowledge Economy
Prosperity and inequality in mature knowledge economies
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The Power to Dismiss
Politics against Markets
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Beneficial Constraints
Social Partners and the Governance of Public Employment Services
Social Protection and the Formation of Skills
An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism
Business as a Pivotal Actor in the Politics of Training Reform
Employers, Public Policy, and the Politics of Decentralized Cooperation in Germany and France
Skills and Inequality
Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare
How Institutions Evolve
Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity
Towards a social investment welfare state?
The Uses of Social Investment
The Democratic Class Struggle
Aligning Ontology and Methodology in Comparative Politics
Berufsbildende Schule
Coordination, inclusiveness and wage inequality between median- and bottom-income workers
Thematic Review
Inclusive Unions in a Dualized Labour Market? The Challenge of Organizing Labour Market Policy and Social Protection for Labour Market Outsiders
The socio‐political significance of changes to the vocational education system in Germany
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Diverging Solidarity
Census Enumeration and Group Conflict
Democratic Limits to Redistribution
Scenes from a mall
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Employers, the state and the politics of institutional change
Defending the organisation, not the members
Small States and Skill Specificity
Socio-economic institutions, organized interests and partisan politics
Protecting the unemployed
Upgrading or polarization? Occupational change in Britain, Germany, Spain and Switzerland, 1990-2008
Powerful remnants? The politics of egalitarian bargaining institutions in Italy and Sweden
Asset specificity, institutional complementarities and the variety of skill regimes in coordinated market economies
Social Solidarity for All? Trade Union Strategies, Labor Market Dualization, and the Welfare State in Italy and South Korea
Germany's Vocational Education and Training System in Transformation
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |