High-skilled outsiders?: labor market vulnerability, education and welfare state preferences
Recent research has established that employment risk shapes social policy preferences. However, risk is oftentimes conceptualized as an alternative measure of the socio-economic status. [The authors] show that employment risk and socio-economic status are distinct, cross-cutting determinants of social policy preferences. More specifically, [the authors] analyze the policy preferences of high-skilled labor market outsiders as a cross-pressured group. [The authors] first establish that labor market vulnerability has spread well into the more highly educated segments of the population. [The autho... Show more
Authors: Hausermann, Silja; Kurer, Thomas; Schwander, Hanna
Published: Bremen, Germany, Hanna Schwander, 2014
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: 47 p.
Access item: http://www.schwander-hanna.ch/files/High-skilled_outsiders_July2014.pdf
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