Protecting the unemployed: varieties of unionism and the evolution of unemployment benefits and active labor market policy in the rich democracies
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The rich democracies vary widely in the amount of public resources they devote to assisting the unemployed. This article puts forward a theory of cross-national policy differences, using indicators of unemployment benefit generosity and active labor market policy spending for the period from 1985 to 2005. Contesting recent research that downplays the impact of unions on policy outcomes, the author argues that variations in unionism are the central explanatory factor behind these differences in unemployment protection. Specifically, three aspects of different union movements are highlighted: union density, union centralization, and relative involvement in unemployment benefit administration. The article presents an index of ‘inclusive unionism’ that can explain the bulk of variation in unemployment protection generosity. This work builds on earlier power resource theory and challenges the explanations of labor market policy advanced by varieties of capitalism and insider-outsider theory.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it