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Social partner involvement in collective skill formation governance. A comparison of Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland

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  • Patrick Emmenegger

    (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)

  • Lina Seitzl

    (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)

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Dual vocational education and training (VET) with social partner involvement in its governance can typically be found in collective skill formation systems. This article reviews the diversity of collective skill formation systems with a particular focus on their systemic governance. In particular, we look at the actors involved as well as how the systemic governance is organised in terms of corporatist decision-making bodies. The article shows that there are important cross-national differences. First, the social partners do not always participate in the decision-making at the political-strategic level. Second, social partner involvement is not always on equal terms (parity), with trade unions in some cases being less strongly involved. Third, differences in VET governance are particularly pronounced at the technical-operational level. Empirically, the article focuses on the five prototypical collective skill formation systems Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

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  • Patrick Emmenegger & Lina Seitzl, 2020. "Social partner involvement in collective skill formation governance. A comparison of Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 26(1), pages 27-42, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:treure:v:26:y:2020:i:1:p:27-42
    DOI: 10.1177/1024258919896897
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