This thoughtful book considers the reasons why the distribution of jobs, from the highest paid to the lowest, changed over the past 20 years in five European countries, including Britain and Germany.

Autorentext
Daniel Oesch is a professor at the Life Course and Inequality Research Centre (LINES) at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He lectures on labour market policy, social stratification, and industrial relations. He studied at the Universities of Geneva, Lisbon, and Florence, and earned his PhD from the University of Zurich. Alongside his academic work, Oesch had served for six years as national secretary of the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions in Berne. He is the author of Redrawing the Class Map (2006, Palgrave Macmillan).

Klappentext

This book examines the pattern of occupational change in Western Europe by drawing on extensive evidence of employment data in Britain, Denmark, Germany, Spain and Switzerland since 1990.

Inhalt

• Introduction

• 1: The Debate in the Literature on Occupational Change

• 2: Occupational Upgrading in Europe since 1990

• 3: Demand-Side Influences on Occupational Change: Trade and Technology

• 4: Supply-Side Influences on Occupational Change: Education and Migration

• 5: The Role of Institutions: Wage-Setting and Occupational Change

• 6: Upgrading at the Cost of Unemployment?

• Conclusion