This dissertation asks how collective skill formation systems, typically found in the German-speaking countries, Denmark, and the Netherlands, adapt to changing skill demands in the face of the knowledge economy. Strategic employer coordination and private interest governance are distinctive...

This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German Model' in the 1980s. It contrasts the varieties of capitalism approach, which sees business as...