Data di Pubblicazione:
2023
Citazione:
Welfare and labour / C. De la Porte, I. Madama (NEW EUROPEAN UNION SERIES). - In: European Political Economy: Theoretical Approaches and Policy Issues / [a cura di] L. Quaglia, M. Moschella, A. Spendzharova. - [s.l] : Oxford Academic, 2023 Dec 22. - ISBN 9780192846426. - pp. 157-176
Abstract:
Welfare states and labour markets, although organized, financed, and delivered in different
ways across European Union (EU) countries, are a central issue in European
Political Economy. Bound by common fiscal constraints, in the context of the Economic
and Monetary Union (EMU), Member States have aimed to enhance labour market
participation, while modernizing their welfare states and, at least in principle, maintaining
a high level of social standards. Against this backdrop, the chapter addresses
how national welfare models co-exist within the EU and explains how they are influenced
directly and indirectly through the EU’s multi-level governance structure. We
first outline key concepts and challenges pertaining to European Political Economy
of welfare and labour markets. Then, we illustrate how this policy area has evolved,
before and after the international financial crisis of 2008, from a period of EU-induced
austerity to a focus on enhancing social rights for EU citizens. Drawing from different
strands of literature, the chapter discusses the main theoretical and empirical theories
and concepts in regulating social policies and labour markets in the multi-tiered EU institutional
setting. The chapter includes three case studies, on social investment, which
aims to enhance skills development, to enable competitiveness and to maintain social
solidarity; on the conflict between labour and capital emerging from the regulation of
intra-EU migration and posted workers; and the challenges to achieve common social
rights across the EU—exemplified with the case of the EU’s work-life balance directive.
All three case studies pertain to welfare states and labour markets in the EU, but they
reflect challenges which are also present globally, in International Political Economy.
CHAPTER 7
Welfare and Labour
Caroline de la Porte and Ilaria Madama
Chapter contents
7.1 Introduction 158
7.2 Review of the issue area 158
7.3 State of the art on welfare states and
labour markets in Europe 169
7.4 What is next for future
research? 174
Moschella_
Tipologia IRIS:
03 - Contributo in volume
Elenco autori:
C. De la Porte, I. Madama
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Titolo del libro:
European Political Economy: Theoretical Approaches and Policy Issues