This literature review engages with a diverse and sometimes contradictory body of work,
employing an analytic stance rooted in policy scholarship. It discusses rhetorical …

This book started from our discussions of a paradox. Yet despite its importance it has been
curiously little discussed in the academic literature. On the one hand, the last century of …

Skills and Inequality studies the political economy of education and training reforms from the
perspective of comparative welfare state research. Highlighting the striking similarities …

The political‐economic institutions that have traditionally reconciled economic efficiency with
social solidarity in the advanced industrial countries, and specifically in the so‐called …

This paper examines the determinants of a multinational enterprise's (MNEs) decision to set
up tax haven subsidiaries. We adapt the firm-specific advantage–country-specific advantage …

How do welfare states deal with the period of the life course that is youth? In this article, we
propose a two-dimension typology in order to account for cross-national variation in the …

The study of education has long been a neglected subject in political science. Recently,
however, scholarly interest in the field has been increasing rapidly. This review essay …

The concept of asset specificity has become very prominent in the literature on skill
formation, welfare states and labour markets. Building on the varieties of capitalism (VoC) …

Countries around the world have witnessed educational expansion at all levels, leading to
the massification of tertiary education and training. Tertiary education has become a major …

Given ongoing economic, political and social transformation, skill formation systems are
under pressure to change. This is acknowledged in European declarations–Bologna for …