The literature notes an increasing trend towards labor market stratification and dualization in coordinated market economies such as Germany. Labor market insiders and insider-oriented cross-class coalitions are usually identified as the driving forces behind these developments. This paper adds...

Das deutsche Berufsbildungssystem ist im Wandel. Doch dieser Wandlungsprozess entfaltet sich nicht in großen Reformprojekten, sondern in Form von kleinen Schritten, die – über einen langen Zeitraum betrachtet – das System als Ganzes deutlich verändert haben. Das Buch zeichnet diesen...

The COVID-19 pandemic poses a tremendous challenge to health care systems around the globe. Using original panel survey data for the case of Germany, this paper studies how specific trust in the health care system's ability to cope with this crisis has evolved over the course of the pandemic. It...

This paper argues that the German system of vocational training is undergoing subtle but significant changes from a mainly collectivist system to a more segmentalist one. To make the argument, the paper first discusses the two logics of collectivism and segmentalism, and how the German system is...