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"Social protection in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands share Bismarckian roots. Over time, these welfare states were however in constant flux and incorporated to a greater or lesser extend elements of both the Anglo‐Saxon and Nordic models. While the Netherlands has from the beginning deviated from the Bismarckian model, in recent years this welfare state has undergone important reforms that have made it increasingly evolve into a “Bismarck cum Beveridge” model. Germany and Belgium also witnessed a dual transformation, with retrenched earnings‐related benefits for long‐term unemployed and an increasing number of atypically employed people on the one hand and expanded social security to the so‐called “new social risks” on the other. It is against this changing institutional background that we can understand the similarities and differences in the extent to which these three continental welfare states used traditional social insurance systems to buffer the social and economic consequences of confinement. First, all three countries strengthened to varying degrees social protection systems for the active age population. So conceived, the policy responses were a response to the dual transformation of social protection that took place in recent decades without, however, changing its course. Second, the extent to which continental welfare states made use of existing social insurance schemes seems to be related to the extent to which these welfare states have moved in the Anglo‐Saxon direction."

"Technologische veranderingen en globalisering hebben grote gevolgen voor het werk dat mensen verrichten. Maar welke groepen werknemers ondervinden eigenlijk de voordelen van deze ontwikkelingen en van welke groepen werkenden staan de banen onder druk? Deze en andere vragen worden in dit boek behandeld aan de hand van recent onderzoek.

Robotisering, een vierde industriële revolutie, outsourcing en resourcing: de arbeidsmarkt is heftig in beweging. Volgens velen voltrekken zich nu ingrijpende en fundamentele economische veranderingen die een revolutie op de arbeidsmarkt kunnen inluiden. Sommige deskundigen zeggen dat een groot deel van de huidige werkgelegenheid, zij spreken zelfs over ongeveer vijftig procent, zal verdwijnen.

Slagen overheden en sociale partners erin om invloed uit te oefenen op de veranderingen op de arbeidsmarkt en valt er voor bedrijven nog wel iets te kiezen als het gaat om de inzet van nieuwe technologie, zoals robots?

Deze en andere vragen worden in dit boek behandeld aan de hand van recent onderzoek. Leidende vragen zijn of verschillen in arbeidsmarktposities tussen laag-, midden- en hooggeschoolden toenemen in de tijd, hoe dit komt en op welke manieren dit kan worden beïnvloed."

"Today, there is a widespread suggestion that permanent workers are increasingly subject to precarious working conditions. Due to international competition and declining union density, job qualities of permanent workers are assumed to be under strain. According to proponents of a democratization of risk rationale, low job qualities that were traditionally attached to secondary labour markets are transferred to workers in primary segments of the labour market. In this study, the authors test this theoretical rationale among workers in 11 Western European economies, using two waves of the European Working Conditions Survey. The results do not confirm a democratization of labour market risk. Lower job qualities are highly associated with flexible employment contracts and highlight a clear gap between insiders and outsiders."