• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Institutional Determinants of Employment Chances: The Structure of Unemployment in France and Sweden
  • Beteiligte: DiPrete, Thomas A.; Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Tåhlin, Michael
  • Erschienen: Oxford University Press in association with the European Consortium for Sociological Research, 2001
  • Erschienen in: European Sociological Review, 17 (2001) 3, Seite 233-254
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISSN: 0266-7215; 1468-2672
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  • Beschreibung: Linked employer-employee data for Sweden and France are used to test competing hypotheses about the structure of unemployment in France and Sweden derived from a comparison of their welfare-state structures, labour-market institutions, and the linkages between their educational system and labour market. Contrary to standard predictions derived from welfare-state theory, the unemployment structure of France does not conform to the classic insider-outsider labour-market model that scholars generally attribute to conservative welfare-state regimes. Instead, France has a flexible two-tier labour market that produces relatively high entry rates into employment along with the strong age and educational gradients in exit rates that would be expected for a country with high firing costs. Even during the deep recession of the early 1990s, Sweden was also characterized by a strong age gradient in the rate of exit from an employer. However, Swedish rates do not show a strong education gradient, which is the expected consequence of Sweden's loosely linked school and work institutions, and extensive active labour-market policies. Active labour-market policies during the Swedish recession of the early 1990s appear to have further changed the shape of the age-unemployment curve in that country by raising the exit rate of older workers more than would have resulted from the dynamics of labour demand alone.