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4.1 Introduction 4.1 Introduction
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4.2 Product Market Strategies, Skill Types, and The Welfare State 4.2 Product Market Strategies, Skill Types, and The Welfare State
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4.2.1. Skills and Product Market Strategies 4.2.1. Skills and Product Market Strategies
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4.2.2 The Welfare–Skill Formation Nexus 4.2.2 The Welfare–Skill Formation Nexus
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4.2.3 Wage‐Bargaining Institutions and Wage Protection 4.2.3 Wage‐Bargaining Institutions and Wage Protection
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4.3 Self‐Reinforcing Inequalities and Political Preferences 4.3 Self‐Reinforcing Inequalities and Political Preferences
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4.3.1 Distribution, Poverty Traps, and Product Market Strategies 4.3.1 Distribution, Poverty Traps, and Product Market Strategies
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4.3.2 Gender Equality and Skill Types 4.3.2 Gender Equality and Skill Types
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4.3.3 Employers, Core Workers, and Median Voters 4.3.3 Employers, Core Workers, and Median Voters
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4.4 Comparative Patterns 4.4 Comparative Patterns
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4.4.1 Measuring Protection 4.4.1 Measuring Protection
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4.4.2 Measuring Skill Profiles 4.4.2 Measuring Skill Profiles
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4.4.3 Putting the Pieces Together 4.4.3 Putting the Pieces Together
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4.4.4 Implications for Labor Market Stratification 4.4.4 Implications for Labor Market Stratification
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4.5 Conclusion 4.5 Conclusion
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4 Social Protection and the Formation of Skills: A Reinterpretation of the Welfare State
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Published:August 2001
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Abstract
Outlines a new approach to the study of the welfare state. Contrary to the emphasis on ‘decommodification’ in the current literature, it is argued that important dimensions of the welfare state—employment protection, unemployment protection, and wage protection—are designed to make workers more willing to invest in firm‐ and industry‐specific skills that increase their dependence on particular employers and their vulnerability to market fluctuations. Workers will only make such risky investments when they have some insurance that their job or income is secure; otherwise, they will invest in general, and therefore portable, skills. In turn, because the skill composition of the work force constrains the set of product‐market strategies that firms can pursue successfully, employers will support social protection that facilitates the set of skills that they need to be competitive in particular international product markets. It shows that the argument is consistent with observed clusters of social protection and skill profiles among OECD countries, and that these clusters are associated with very different distributional outcomes and patterns of gender‐specific labour market segmentation.
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