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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Frans, Dorien
• Doerflinger, Nadja
• Pulignano, Valeria

Titel

Occupational welfare and segmentation: explaining across (and within) sectoral variation in Germany and Belgium

Ist Teil von

• Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 2019-10, Vol.65 (3), p.215-242

Ort / Verlag

De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The paper uses a qualitative comparative case study design to examine across (and within) sectoral variation in occupational welfare outcomes (i.e. flexible working hours, occupational pensions and health and sickness benefits, fringe benefits complementing wages) for different groups of workers in food and chemical manufacturing in Germany and Belgium. Findings indicate that common national challenges can yield different occupational welfare outcomes across (and within) different sectors, which in turn affect workforce segmentation. The integration between local and sector-level power dynamics explains how, and the extent to which, negotiation on occupational welfare can entail segmentation.