Jens Bastian
Ashgate
Hardback
290
1994
The matrix of incentives and constraints that a network of institutions displays are fundamental to our understanding of the adoption implementation and evaluation of public policies: labour market policies are no exception. The author argues that labour market policies cannot be seen in isolation. They interact with other policies and are determined inter alia by entrenched institutional legacies and standard operating procedures in the industrial relations system. To illustrate this argument the article analyses work sharing and temporal flexibility in Belgium France and Britain. The increased salience of work sharing demands in the public discourse about labour market policies at the beginning of the eighties reflected changing frontiers of distributional conflicts between industrial relations actors. In practice however the demands for work sharing were gradually pushed to the sidelines and replaced by policies supporting temporal flexibility in the labour market.
Ashgate
Hardback
290
1994
The matrix of incentives and constraints that a network of institutions displays are fundamental to our understanding of the adoption implementation and evaluation of public policies: labour market policies are no exception. The author argues that labour market policies cannot be seen in isolation. They interact with other policies and are determined inter alia by entrenched institutional legacies and standard operating procedures in the industrial relations system. To illustrate this argument the article analyses work sharing and temporal flexibility in Belgium France and Britain. The increased salience of work sharing demands in the public discourse about labour market policies at the beginning of the eighties reflected changing frontiers of distributional conflicts between industrial relations actors. In practice however the demands for work sharing were gradually pushed to the sidelines and replaced by policies supporting temporal flexibility in the labour market.