This article conceptualizes the evolution of the German political economy as the
codevelopment of technological and institutional change. The notion of skill-biased …

The article provides an assessment to what extent reforms of occupational pensions (OP)
have fostered a “risk shift” or increased social protection dualism across countries. The …

In this article, we discuss the role of trade unions in the evolution of occupational pensions in
four countries: Austria, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. In all four cases, important …

The article focuses on Italy—a typical example of the Southern European model—and the
recent evolution of occupational welfare (OW). It first provides up‐to‐date information on the …

Face reality. Be honest about what is happening to the majority of people.... the benefits of
development, so long promised over the past fifty years, have not come about for most …

Occupational welfare, ie welfare provided by virtue of employment status, achievement and
record (Titmuss 1958), has been growing in importance in the European Union (EU) since …

The paper uses a qualitative comparative case study design to examine across (and within)
sectoral variation in occupational welfare outcomes (ie flexible working hours, occupational …

This chapter investigates qualitatively the conduct of dual vocational training (DVT) of
German-owned foreign subsidiaries in Brazil and the impact on the Brazilian institutional …

Technological change has meant that university-educated workers have become crucial to
the production strategies of ICT-intensive, high-end exporting firms in the knowledge …

Welfare privatisation is generally analysed as welfare state retrenchment or liberalisation:
reducing the role of public provision is understood as reducing the role of the state in …