Tobias Wiß,
"From welfare states to welfare sectors: Explaining sectoral differences in occupational pensions with economic and political power of employees"
, in Journal of European Social Policy, Vol. 25, Nummer 5, Seite(n) 489? 504, 2015, ISSN: 1461-7269
Original Titel:
From welfare states to welfare sectors: Explaining sectoral differences in occupational pensions with economic and political power of employees
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
Studies analysing welfare have previously focused on countries as units. In the course of pension cuts and
the increasing importance of occupational welfare, our traditional understanding of a homogeneous welfare
state is being challenged. In this article, I distinguish between both economic individual power (employee
skills) and political collective power (trade unions), and their relation with different occupational pensions.
A combined analysis by both factors is not common, where employee skills and power resources are
traditionally treated as separate, rival explanations of public welfare. Combining the ?method of difference?
with the ?method of agreement?, the article first presents the within-country variety of occupational pensions
in Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Denmark. Occupational pensions in the same economic sectors
across countries are then used as the units of analysis in order to illustrate the plausible determinants of
economic individual power and political collective power.