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Patterns and meaning of unemployment
- Author:
- THERBORN G.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 4(3), July 1995, pp.122-130.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
This article introduces the special issue. Unemployment in Argentina, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain is placed in the context of global economics; The end of full employment in Sweden was part of an international desinstitutionalization that connected employment closely to economic growth; The immediate causes of the economic decline and mass unemployment in Sweden were a financial crash and neoliberal government policies. The ambiguity of unemployment in the criteria for evaluating the performance of policy-makers and three different cultures among unemployed people are outlined; An overview of what is known about the consequences of unemployment in terms of excess illness and mortality is given.
Confusion behind the dikes : chronic high unemployment in the Dutch welfare state
- Author:
- VISSER W.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 4(3), July 1995, pp.140-150.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Twenty years ago Dutch society was hit by a serious rise of unemployment that put the Dutch welfare state to the test : Should the welfare state be able to prevent unemployment to becoming high and chronic as in the 1930s? An should the welfare state be able to prevent mass poverty as in the 1930s? The answers are well known. The Dutch welfare state as not been able to forestall persistent high unemployment and, in fact, has more or less produced a dual society (Zweidrittelgesellschaft, socit ... deux vitesses), although without producing mass poverty. This article goes out three issues related to these developments. A bird's-eye view is presented of the unemployment trajectory of the 1970s, 1980s and the first half of the 1990s; The position of the Netherlands relative to other counties in Europe is unfolded. Some issues concerning the effects of chronic unemployment on the functioning of the Dutch political economy are presented.