Welfare and Work in the Open Economy, Vol. 2: Diverse Responses to Common Challenges

This is the second of a two‐volume study of the adjustment of advanced welfare states to international economic pressures, in which leading scholars detail the wide variety of responses in 12 countries to the challenges to their employment and social policy systems in the period between the first oil‐price crises of the early 1970s and the increasing economic globalization of the 1980s and 1990s. Chapters in this volume provide in‐depth studies of countries’ adjustment experiences over three decades, beginning with a snapshot of the ‘golden age’ of the welfare state c.1970, then proceeding with a chronology of the successive external economic challenges and internal policy responses up until today, ending with a depiction of the new model or model in the making, and of what went right and what went wrong. The country studies include three welfare states representing the ‘Anglo‐Saxon’ model (the UK, Australia, and New Zealand), seven varieties of the ‘Continental’ welfare state (Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Italy), and two ‘Scandinavian’ welfare states (Sweden and Denmark). In addition, the volume includes analyses focusing on cross‐national differences in the labour‐market participation of women and of older workers, on the employment effects of service liberalization, and on international tax competition.1 Introduction 2 Martin Rhodes: Restructuring the British welfare state: Between domestic constraints and global imperatives 3 Herman Schwartz: Internationalization and two liberal welfare states: Australia and New Zealand 4 Giuliano Bonoli and André Mach: Switzerland: Adjustment politics within institutional constraints 5 Anton Hemerijck, Brigitte Unger, and Jelle Visser: How small countries negotiate change -twenty-five years of policy adjustment in Austria, the Netherlands and Belgium 6 Philip Manow and Eric Seils: Adjusting badly: The German welfare state, structural change, and the open economy 7 Jonah D. Levy: France: Directing adjustment? 8 Maurizio Ferrera and Elisabetta Gualmini: Italy: Rescue from without? 9 Mats Benner and Torben Bundgaard Vad: Sweden and Denmark: Defending the Welfare State 10 Mary Daly: A fine balance: Women's labor market participation in international comparison 11 Bernhard Ebbinghaus: Any way out of exit from work? Reversing the entrenched pathways of early retirement? 12 Adrienne Héritier and Susanne K. Schmidt: After liberalization: Public-interest services and employment in the utilities 13 Steffen Ganghof: Adjusting national tax policy to economic internationalization - strategies and outcome