CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Gagliardi, Pierluigi |
|---|---|
| Title | To What Extent the Recovery and Resilience Facility Plans Address Labour Market Dualism? A Cross-country Comparison |
| Summary | The impact of COVID-19 has disproportionately fallen on the most vulnerable working categories in today societies. The concentration of job losses for young people and women has exposed the fragilities of the dualized labour market resulting in uneven consequences. The point of departure for this analysis has been the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on labour market policies for outsiders in the European welfare states within Häusermann and Schwander’s insider-outsider theoretical framework. More specifically, the Master Thesis investigates to what extent the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) Plans address the patterns of labour market dualism in welfare state regimes. In particular, the Thesis examines how Sweden, Italy and Ireland have reacted, in terms of labour policies for social groups defined in age and gender, to the challenges triggered by the coronavirus pandemic by presenting the RRF program to the European Commission. The results of this study show: the perpetuation of a marked gender connotation in the Swedish labour market with a limited number of resources allocated to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on women; an unexpected national response of the Italian government through a labour market reform for the young, in contrast to the tendencies of the Mediterranean welfare regime; finally, very selective investments to support youth work placement to prevent high unemployment rates in Ireland’s Recovery and Facility Plan. The findings indicate that the welfare regimes of Italy and Ireland, unlike the Swedish social-democratic system, have largely contrasted the escalating dualized labour market through the elaboration of investments and reforms that directly address the outsiders of young people and women. |
| Supervisor | Hübscher, Evelyne; Smith, Martin. |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/gagliardi_pierluigi.pdf |
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