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KMID : 1001320130400040293
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Social Welfare Policy
2013 Volume.40 No. 4 p.293 ~ p.318
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Labour Market Flexibility and Unemployment Benefit Homogeniation: a Comparative Study of Netherlands, Germany and France
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Jung Sung-Gug
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Abstract
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Flexible labour market requires a fundamental reworking of the institutional structures through which unemployment protection was traditionally organized. This process of institutional change can be called ‘triple integration’. The first of these is unemployment homogenization. It means the process whereby the level and the duration of entitlement to unemployment benefits tend to become less dependent on previous labour market achievements and positions than in the past. But the reality is so different from the requirement of labour market flexibility. Some governments adapted unemployment protection to new circumstances but others did not. This paper tried to analyze why some governments of Netherlands, Germany and France attempted progressive recalibration or did reactionary one. This case study shows following results. While Netherlands has made significant revisions of their systems of unemployment protection much earlier, this has been far from the case in France and Germany. Germany experienced the reform of the existing unemployment protection system in 2005 and France made revision in 2008. The case provides evidence for the impact of institutional constraints, trade union and the autonomy of state.
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KEYWORD
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flexible labour market, unemployment homogenization, institutional constraints, insider-outsider theory
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