Social dumping, catch-up or convergence? Europe in a comparative global context

By J. Alber, Guy Standing. 2000

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Subfields: Finance, General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations

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In Finance

1. Thomas Sommerer
2. S. Heichel
3. Jane Lewis
4. J. Pape
5. Carina Schmitt
6. Peter H. Starke
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In General Health Professions

1. Carina Schmitt
2. Peter H. Starke
3. M. Kautto
4. Thomas Sommerer
5. S. Heichel
6. Jane Lewis
7. J. Pape
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8. J. Pape

Citations in the corpus

• Gender and welfare state change1 (2002, background): “Looking beyond Europe and the US, Alber and Standing (2000) have again tended to con rm this view, albeit that they have detected a trend to lower social spending relative to a given level of wealth.”
• Dynamics of Regulatory Change: How Globalization Affects National Regulatory Policies (2002, background): “Thus, standards in any one country end up lower than they would have been in the absence of an external economic pressure (Alber and Standing 2000).”
• Nordic welfare states in the European context (2001, background): “However, convergence may also occur if other Western European countries start to adopt policies and arrangements already institutionalised in the Nordic countries; this is referred to as ‘catch-up convergence’ (see e.g. Greve 1996, Alber and Standing 2000, Guillén and Matsaganis 2000).”
• Is there convergence in convergence research? an overview of empirical studies on policy convergence (2005, methodology): “However, it requires metrical and time series-like data and only a few applications can be found (Alber and Standing 2000; Sanz and Velásquez 2003).”
• Explaining convergence of OECD welfare states: a conditional approach (2011, background): “Beginning with O’Connor’s article (1988), a great number of studies use measures of dispersion such as standard deviation, the coefficient of variation, the Gini index, or graphics such as boxplots in order to track the convergence of social expenditure (Adelantado and Calderón Cuevas, 2006; Alber, ”