Modern times
Institutional dynamics in Belgian and French labour market policies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6405501 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Bastian (0000-0002-8910-189X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 98-122 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402389408425003 |
| OpenAlex | W1995265289 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 20 |
The matrix of incentives and constraints that a network of institutions displays are fundamental to our understanding of the adoption, implementation and evaluation of public policies: labour market policies are no exception. This article argues that labour market policies cannot be seen in isolation. They interact with other policies and are determined, inter alia, by entrenched institutional legacies and standard operating procedures in the industrial relations system. To illustrate this argument the article analyses work sharing and temporal flexibility in Belgium and France. The increased salience of work sharing demands in the public discourse about labour market policies at the beginning of the eighties reflected changing frontiers of distributional conflicts between the industrial relations actors. In practice however, the demand for work sharing was gradually pushed to the sidelines and replaced by policies supporting temporal flexibility
Argument (complex analysis · Business · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Flexibility (engineering · Incentive · Labour market flexibility · Market economy · Political economy · Public policy · Salience (neuroscience · Unemployment · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Industrial relations · Labor Movements and Unions · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Industrial Relations
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1994 - 2000 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |