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The dissolution of the standard employment relationship since the 1970s has been paralleled by a destabilization of family relations. The paper, which is a slightly revised version of a plenary lecture at the 2008 Meeting of the German Sociological Association, discusses possible connections...
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The failure of the Alliance for Jobs marks the end of the attempt to accomplish the adjustment of the German labor market and welfare state through a tripartite pact between government, trade unions and organized business. The root causes of the failure are located mainly in the peculiarities of...
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The key to economic reform in Germany is a significant reduction in the high costs of labour.The main factor driving up German labour costs is the funding of the extensive German welfare state through social insurance contributions that in effect operate like payroll taxes on employment. The...
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Very large firms, the rising significance of small and medium-sized enterprises notwithstanding, still account for most of the employment and wealth creation in Europe and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. They also to a large extent determine the political institutions that...
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The paper is a contribution to a book edited by Simon Green and Willie Paterson, Semi-sovereignty Revisited: Governance, Institutions and Policies in United Germany. The book will appear in 2003 or 2004. It explores to what extent Peter Katzenstein's seminal study of the semi-sovereign German...
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Der Korporatismus der Nachkriegsphase kann als Konfliktpartnerschaft zwischen Organisierungseliten von Arbeit und Kapital beschrieben werden. Deren Leistung bestand darin, ihre jeweiligen Lager zusammenzuhalten und auf mit den Eliten des jeweils anderen Lagers ausgehandelte Kompromisse zu...
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Weitgehend unbeachtet haben in den letzten Jahren wichtige Veränderungen im deutschen System der Arbeitsbeziehungen stattgefunden. Von besonderer Bedeutung sind dabei die Aufnahme sozialpolitischer Themen in den Gegenstandsbereich der Tarifverhandlungen, insbesondere der Alterssicherung und der...
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Der Prozeß der Globalisierung hat schon in der frühen Neuzeit begonnen und ging der Entstehung des modernen Nationalstaats voraus. Die nationalstaatliche Organisation der Weltgesellschaft hat sich seit anderthalb Jahrhunderten gegenüber immer neuen Internationalisierungsschüben erstaunlich...
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