The Causes of Welfare State Expansion: Deindustrialization or Globalization? (in World Politics: April, 2000; v.52, no.3)

Abstract:

Our argument, in short, is that most of the risks being generated in modern industrialized societies are the product of technologically induced structural transformations inside na–tional labor markets. Increasing productivity, changing consumption patterns, and saturated demand for products from the traditional sectors of the economy are the main forces of change. It is these structural sources of risk that fuel demands for state compensation and risk sharing.

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