Published in 1999, Working Europe: Reshaping European employment systems offers a fresh analysis of recent changes in labour markets and the restructuring of welfare states. The analyzes presented in the articles not only focus on labour market changes, but take up the important issues of: * How labour markets have been regulated and directed * How the various social security systems offered by the welfare state are related to the questions of labour markets and employment systems * How efficient labour market policies are in reducing unemployment * How employment is locally created and initiated * How the gender system is related to employment systems. This book is the first to offer a full picture of the restructuring of the employment systems and the complex relationship between employment, the welfare state and concepts of work.
Introduction Part I: Employment Systems and Regulation
1. Economic
Functioning, Self-Sufficiency and Full Employment
2. Do Employment and Income
Security Case Unemployment? Part II: Gender system and Employment
3. Welfare
Regimes and the Gender Division of Labour
4. Breaking the Bundaries: Women's
Encounter with the State
5. The Welfare State, Gender State, and Public
Sector Employment in Finland Part III: Social Security and Labour Markets
6.
Deconstructing Unemployment: Reassessment of Unemployment Measures and
Compensation Schemes
7. Life Paths and Labour Market Citizenship Part IV:
Labour Market Policies and their Efficiency
8. The Lessons from the Labour
Market Policies of Finland and Sweden
9. The Portuguese and Spanish Labour
Markets: So ALike Yet So Diffirent
10. Evaluation of Employment and Training
Programs in France and the United States
11. Toward a Government of
Employment? Part V: Employment Creation and Local Initiatives
12. Local
Initiatives as Means of Active Labour Market Policy
13. Labour Market
Training and Changes in the Labour Market
15. New Forms of Social Integration
Needed Part VI: Work-Sharing and Working Time Policies
16. Shorter Working
Hours and More Jobs?
17. Regulation of Short-Time Working in France and
Germany
18. Sabbatical Leave Scheme in Finland
19. Work Sharing and its
Impact on the Household Economy and Income Transfers Part VII: Concluding
Remarks
Jens Christiansen, Pertti Koistinen, Anne Kovalainen
