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Equality or employment? The interaction of wages, welfare states and family change

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  • Gösta Esping-Andersen

    (University of Trento, Italy.)

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There are growing fears that post-industrial society will produce a new class of permanent losers, a modern-day lumpen proletariat. The catch, however, is that an erosion of social protection threatens not only the losers but, even more importantly, also the winners. The single greatest challenge to the welfare state today lies in the need to rethink its classical assumptions about work, family and social risk. Social protection has been inordinately biased in favour of the elderly (who were the traditional high-risk poverty group), and this bias has been strengthened as welfare states sought to manage unemployment with early retirement. In contrast, for young families who now experience a host of new risks, welfare states tend to be passive.

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  • Gösta Esping-Andersen, 1996. "Equality or employment? The interaction of wages, welfare states and family change," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 2(4), pages 615-634, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:treure:v:2:y:1996:i:4:p:615-634
    DOI: 10.1177/102425899600200405
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