Globalized Labour Markets and Social Inequality in Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Globalized Labour Markets and Social Inequality in Europe: Theoretical Framework

      • Sandra Buchholz, Kathrin Kolb, Dirk Hofäcker, Hans-Peter Blossfeld

      Pages 3-22

3. Country-Specific Contributions on Conservative Welfare Regimes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Selective Flexibilization and Deregulation of the Labour Market: The German Answer to Increased Needs for Employment Flexibility and Its Consequences for Social Inequalities

      • Sandra Buchholz, Kathrin Kolb

      Pages 25-45

   3. The Flexibilization of the Dutch Labour Market: The Impact of Globalization on the Life Course and Inequality

      • Rudi Wielers, Melinda Mills

      Pages 46-75

4. Country-Specific Contributions on Southern European Welfare Regimes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. The Flexibilization of the Spanish Labour Market: Meaning and Consequences for Inequality from a Life-Course Perspective

      • Juan-Ignacio Martínez-Pastor, Fabrizio Bernardi

      Pages 79-107

   3. Italy: No Country for Young Men (and Women): The Italian Way of Coping with Increasing Demands for Labour Market Flexibility and Rising Welfare Problems

      • Paolo Barbieri

      Pages 108-145

5. Country-Specific Contributions on Social-Democratic Welfare Regimes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. A Recipe for Coping with the Challenge of Globalization? Trends in Labour Market Flexibilization and Life Course Inequality in Denmark

      • Dirk Hofäcker

      Pages 149-176

   3. Changing Work–Life Inequality in Sweden: Globalization and Other Causes

      • Tomas Korpi, Michael Tåhlin

      Pages 177-208

6. Country-Specific Contributions on Post-Socialist Welfare Regimes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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   2. The Estonian Form of Globalization: Advantageous for Young Adults and Ethnic Estonians

      • Jelena Helemäe, Ellu Saar

      Pages 211-235

   3. From Guaranteed Employment to Job Competition: The Flexibilization of the Polish Labour Market

      • Anna Baranowska

      Pages 236-258

7. A Country-Specific Contribution on Liberal Welfare Regimes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259

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   2. The Effects of Flexibilization on Social Divisions and Career Trajectories in the UK Labour Market

      • Christina Purcell, Matt Flynn, Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya

      Pages 261-292

8. Discussion and Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 293-293

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   2. The Flexibilization of European Labour Markets and the Development of Social Inequalities: Comparing Evidence from Nine Globalized Countries

      • Dirk Hofäcker, Sandra Buchholz, Kathrin Kolb, Hans-Peter Blossfeld

      Pages 295-322

9. Back Matter

   Pages 323-327

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Based on contributions from international experts, this volume provides an up-to-date account of globalization's influences on individual life courses in nine different modern societies, and of cross-nationally varying political strategies to mediate this influence.

• competition
• employment
• globalization
• labor market
• Nation
• social inequality

• University of Bamberg, Germany

  Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Sandra Buchholz, Kathrin Kolb

• Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, Germany

  Dirk Hofäcker

GOSTA ESPING-ANDERSEN Professor of Sociology at Pompeu Fabra University, Spain ANNA BARANOWSKA Studied Quantitative Methods and Information systems at Warsaw School of Economics, Poland PAOLO BARBIERI Teaches Economic Sociology at the University of Trento, Italy URACHA CHATRAKUL NA AYUDHYA Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour at Middlesex University, UK MATT FLYNN Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University Business School, UK JELENA HELEMÄE Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Social Stratification, Institute of International and Social Studies at Tallinn University, Estonia TOMAS KORPI Professor at the Swedish Institute for Social Research at Stockholm University, Sweden JUAN-IGNACIO MARTÍNEZ-PASTOR Associate Professor at the National University of Distance Education, Spain MELINDA MILLS Professor of Sociology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands CHRISTINA PURCELL Doctoral Student in the Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour Division at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, UK ELLU SAAR Professor at the Institute for International and Social Studies, Tallinn University, Estonia MICHAEL TAHLIN Professor of Sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden RUDI WIELERS Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands

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