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When a solution becomes the problem
— the causes of policy reversal on early exit from the labour force | | Author(s) | Miriam Hartlapp, Achim Kemmerling |
| Journal title | Journal of European Social Policy, vol 18, no 4, November 2008 |
| Pages | pp 366-379 |
| Source | http://esp.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Early retirement ; Redundancy ; Retirement policy ; Social welfare ; Trade Unions ; Belgium ; Netherlands ; International. |
| Annotation | Whereas governments had previously designed early exit policies to unburden labour markets, they have come increasingly to regard them as problematic. The authors investigate the reasons for this policy reversal, focusing on two key actors: governments and trade unions. Their mixed-methods approach entails two major steps, the first being approaches to policy reform in a common framework to show the empirical relevance of the two major actors in most OECD countries. It was found that both government ideology and union representativeness matter. In a second step, investigation of reform processes in two countries are undertaken in more detail. Belgium and the Netherlands have much in common as regards government and interest groups, but differ in terms of the reversal of early exit policies. Both the configuration of electoral and welfare state institutions have shaped the specific strategic environment of the two actors in both countries. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090601208 A |
| Classmark | GC: G5M: WI: G5: TY: WMA: 76E: 76H: 72 |
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