Editorial
Tomas Berglund, Torsten Müller
One of the greatest risks affecting workers on today’s labour markets is unemployment. Losing one’s job usually entails not only the loss of one’s main source of income, but also psychological consequences resulting, for example, from the loss of colleagues and satisfying work tasks (Jahoda, 1982). While a short time in unemployment, with a swift return to new employment, is less disruptive to a worker’s life situation, the longer the unemployment persists the stronger the pressure to find new employment. As a consequence, the likelihood increases that workers will accept jobs that are worse in terms of wages, skill level and work environment than their previous job. Read more...
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Co-editors: Philippe Pochet, Vera Šćepanović, Maarten Keune
Managing Editor: Marina Luttrell
Contents
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Readjusting unemployment protection in Europe: how crises reshape varieties of labour market regimes - Bernhard Ebbinghaus, J. Timo Weishaupt
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Unemployment benefit governance, trade unions and outsider protection in conservative welfare states - Daniel Clegg, Elke Heins, Philip Rathgeb
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The Ghent system in transition: unions’ evolving role in Sweden’s multi-pillar unemployment benefit system - Jayeon Lindellee, Tomas Berglund
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Industrial relations and unemployment benefit schemes in the Visegrad countries during the COVID-19 pandemic - Katarína Lukáčová, Lucia Kováčová, Martin Kahanec
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Job retention schemes in Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic – different shapes and sizes and the role of collective bargaining - Torsten Müller, Thorsten Schulten, Jan Drahokoupil
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European unemployment insurance. From undercurrent to paradigm shift - László Andor
News and Background
Book Reviews
- Minimum Wage Regimes. Statutory Regulation, Collective Bargaining and Adequate Levels - Felix Syrovatka
- The Gig Economy – Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence - Thomas Klikauer
- Who Cares? Attracting and Retaining Care Workers for the Elderly - Stephen Bach
