Varieties and politics of skill protection: a micro level analysis of unemployment protection systems in Europe

Thesis

Varieties of Capitalism theory predicts that the skill specificity of workers determines their demand for social protection. In this thesis, I test this assumption using a measure of occupational mobility between pre- and post-unemployment, which I apply to European workers in different skill groups as defined by Fleckenstein et al., (2011). Using this measure as an indicator of the portability of workers' skills, I then evaluate whether the lower marketability of human capital in...

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Authors: Feyertag, J

• Publication date: 2013
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: vocational and professional training; human capital; social policy preferences; VoC; Varieties of Capitalism; labour economics; skill specificity
• Subjects: Economics and education; Economics; Welfare state reform and change; Social Inequality; Political science; Labour economics; Social policy & social work; Public policy; Macro and international economics; Vocational and professional learning