Trade unions, unemployment benefits and labour market outsiders with Daniel Clegg and Elke Heins
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Even in Continental Europe, trade unions are the most powerful voice defending outsiders in welfare state politics, and reducing their institutional power in unemployment insurance and elsewhere will likely make things worse for outsiders and not – as certain political leaders in these countries often imply – make things better. Unemployment benefit governance, trade unions and outsider protection in conservative welfare states - Daniel Clegg, Elke Heins, Philip Rathgeb --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/etui/message
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