Codetermination (Mitbestimmung) in (West) Germany has been one of the mostcontroversial areas of political and economic conflict. When the CDU-led coalition came to power in 1982, there was a widespread expectation that the powers and privileges enjoyed by works councils (which had been...

This paper examines to what extent the classification of the American welfare state as "residual" squares with the empirical facts. Section I describes key features of American social policy developments. The U.S. system is clearly dominated by public provisions for welfare among which social...

There are many qualms about subjective indicators, and some people believe that social policy should better not use them. This paper consists of a review of these objections. It is argued that policy makers need subjective indicators for the following reasons: 1. Social policy is never limited...

Mit dem Konzept der Nachhaltigkeit wird eine zukünftige Entwicklung beschrieben, die ökologische, ökonomische und soziale Dimensionen systematisch miteinander verknüpft. Für die Realisierung dieses Ansatzes ist nicht nur die Integration der Ziele, sondern ebenso die Integration der Akteure...

Der deutsche Wohlfahrtsstaat war bis Mitte der siebziger Jahre der typische Fall eines lohnarbeitszentrierten Sozialversicherungsstaates. Seither jedoch wandelt er sich in Reaktion auf ökonomische und soziale Veränderungen. Auf der einen Seite werden lohnarbeitszentrierte Sicherungen...

Redistribution is one of the principal mechanisms through which countries secure low income inequality. Maintaining moderately high wage levels at the low end of the distribution may be increasingly difficult and perhaps even counterproductive from an egalitarian perspective. If so,...

This paper considers groups who are most likely to be vulnerable to new social risks and tests the effects of social policies on their poverty levels. Specifically, the paper conducts multi-level regression analyses across 18 OECD countries near the year 2004, analyzing the effects of social...

This study investigates the impact of Left political institutions on a nation's amount of poverty. Specifically, the analysis tests three possible causal relationships: whether Left political institutions affect poverty separately from the welfare state, channeled through the welfare state, or...

The present study examines the hypotheses that progressive welfare-state policies are likely to increase women's labor force participation, but at the same time to increase both occupational segregation and earning gaps between economically active men and women. Using data from 20 industrialized...