European Social Models From Crisis to Crisis:

Employment and Inequality in the Era of Monetary Integration

Edited by Jon Erik Dolvik and Andrew Martin

Provides a unique overview of social model developments in key European countries over the past 25 years
Gathers a selection of outstanding international scholars which offer a comprehensive view on the recent crisis and its background causes
Features case studies of 11 countries and comparative analysis of policy coalitions and labor market outcomes

European Social Models From Crisis to Crisis:

Employment and Inequality in the Era of Monetary Integration

Edited by Jon Erik Dolvik and Andrew Martin

Description

Europeans use 'social models' to refer to the combination of welfare state, industrial relations, and educational institutions jointly structuring what we can think of as the supply-side of the labor market. The dominant view in controversy over the social models has been that in the name of equity they have impaired the labor market's efficiency, thereby causing unemployment. But doubt is cast on this supply-side-only diagnosis by powerful macroeconomic developments, from the Europe-wide recession following Germany's post-unification boom to the deepest economic crisis since the interwar Great Depression, which the Eurozone's truncated economic governance structure transformed into a sovereign debt crisis, threatening the Euro's and even EU's very survival. This book explores the interaction of Europe's diverse social models with the major developments that shaped their macroeconomic environment over the quarter century since the fall of the Berlin Wall. It concludes that this environment rather than the social models are primarily responsible for the immense social costs of the crisis.

European Social Models From Crisis to Crisis:

Employment and Inequality in the Era of Monetary Integration

Edited by Jon Erik Dolvik and Andrew Martin

1. Introduction: European Social Models from Crisis to Crisis, Jon Erik Dolvik and Andrew Martin
2. Eurozone Economic Governance: "A Currency Without a Country", Andrew Martin
3. The Transformation of the German Model, Wendy Carlin, Anke Hassel, Andrew Martin and David Soskice
4. France in the Middle, Jacques le Cacheux and George Ross
5. The United Kingdom's Social Model: From Labour's New Deal to the Economic Crisis and the Coalition, Ken Mayhew and Mark Wickham-Jones
6. The Evolution and Crises of the Social Models in Italy and Spain, Sofia Perez and Martin Rhodes
7. The Liberal Road to High Employment and Low Inequality? The Dutch and Swiss Social Models in the Crisis, Alexandre Afonso and Jelle Visser
8. The Nordic Social Models in Turbulent times: Consolidation and Adaptation, Jon Erik Dolvik, Jorgen Goul Andersen, and Juhana Vartiainen
9. Redistribution and the Power of the Advanced Nation State: Government Responses to Rising Inequality, Torben Iversen and David Soskice
10. When Institutions Reciprocate: Turning European Social Models Around, Erling Barth and Kalle Moene
11. From Crisis to Crisis: European Social Models and Labor Market Outcomes in the Era of Monetary Integration, Jon Erik Dolvik and Andrew Martin
12. Conclusion, Andrew Martin and Jon Erik Dolvik

European Social Models From Crisis to Crisis:

Employment and Inequality in the Era of Monetary Integration

Edited by Jon Erik Dolvik and Andrew Martin

Author Information

Jon Erik Dolvik, Head of Research, Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, Oslo,Andrew Martin, Research Associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Jon Erik Dolvik is Dr.philos, sociologist, and Head of Research at Fafo, Institute for Labour and Social Research in Oslo, where he has worked since the 1980s. Dolvik has published extensively in the field of comparative employment relations, social models, and labour migration in the Nordic and European context. His doctoral thesis was on Europeanization of trade unions and social dialogue in the 1990s. He is a longstanding member of the Editorial Panel of European Journal of Industrial Relations and Transfer -- European Review of Labour and Research. Besides stays as visiting scholar abroad, Dolvik has been member of several government appointed commissions regarding labour market issues and Norway's relationship to the EU, and is much used as expert commentator on such issues in the Norwegian public.

Andrew Martin is a Research Associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University. His publications include Euros and Europeans: Monetary Integration and the European Model of Society (2004), and The Brave New World of European Labor: Trade Union Responses to Economic Crisis in Western Europe (1999, both co-edited with G. Ross). Martin co-edits Open Forum, the interactive CES working papers series.

Contributors:

Alexandre Afonso, Lecturer in Politics, King's College, London
Jørgen Goul Andersen, Professor of Political Science, Aalborg University
Erling Barth, Research Director, Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Adjunct Professor of Economics, University of Oslo
Wendy Carlin, Professor of Economics, University College, London
Jon Erik Dølvik, Research Director, Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, Oslo
Anke Hassel, Professor of Public Policy, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
Torben Iversen, Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University
Jacques le Cacheux, Director, Department of Studies, Observatoire Français des
Conjonctures Economiques, Sciences Po, Paris, University Professor, Université de Pau
Andrew Martin, Research Associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Ken Mayhew, Emeritus Professor of Education and Economic Performance and Emeritus Fellow in Economics Oxford University
Karl Ove Moene, Professor of Economics, University of Oslo
Sofia Pérez, Professor of Political Science, Boston University
Martin Rhodes, Professor of Comparative Political Economy, University of Denver
George Ross, Chaire Jean Monnet, Université de Montreal; Hillquit Professor in Labor and Social Thought, Emeritus, Brandeis University,
David Soskice, Professor of Political Science and Economics, London School of Economics University
Juhana Vartiainen, Director General of the Government Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki
Jelle Visser,Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Sociology University of Amsterdam
Mark Wickham-Jones, Professor of Political Science , University of Bristol

European Social Models From Crisis to Crisis:

Employment and Inequality in the Era of Monetary Integration

Edited by Jon Erik Dolvik and Andrew Martin

Reviews and Awards

"the editors and their team of experts have provided a detailed and critical compendium of European welfare state evolution over the last two decades. The reader can use it either to gain a comprehensive understanding of trends and issues, or as a point of reference for individual nations." -- Tony Gore, JMCS

"[T]his is an impressive volume that intelligently raises and answers a multitude of questions, and which has yet to find robust competition. The book is a must for the library of every political economist, comparative social policy scholar, and historically attuned economist." --Robert Hancke, Council for European Studies Reviews

"This is a fascinating book providing a wealth of information and incisive analysis on how monetary integration affects the evolution of social models in Europe. It is required reading for all those who are eager to understand the social dimension of the euro crisis." --Paul De Grauwe, John Paulson Professor in European Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science

"European Social Models from Crisis to Crisis is an amazing volume with sobering conclusions for European welfare state and integration prospects. It is the first collection in welfare regime studies and comparative political economy to show how the European sovereign debt crisis, with its aftershocks of mass unemployment and rising inequality resulted from how monetary integration unfolded since the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall. By doing so in a highly structured fashion, the volume rightly breaks with the convention of 'methodological nationalism.' It's a first rate, timely and utterly indispensable read for EU and domestic policy makers, welfare state students, political economists and EU integration pundits and academics." --Anton Hemerijck, Professor of Institutional Policy Analysis, VU University Amsterdam, and Centennial Professor of Social Policy, LSE

"This volume delivers a pioneering study of the connection between the development of Europe's monetary system and the evolution of European welfare and labour regimes. Analysing the causes and consequences of the recent crisis, Dølvik and Martin conclude that the divergence within the Eurozone is likely to deepen. Clearly, ignoring the crisis' severe social consequences implies risking disintegration of EMU and destabilisation of the EU. To better reconcile Europe's economic and social objectives, EMU needs further reform. Reading this book will help all who want to work on this in either theory or practice." --László Andor, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission 2010-2014