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The breakdown of the employment norms in Europe

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  • Arnaud Lechevalier

    (CMB - Centre Marc Bloch - MEAE - Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères - Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Olivier Giraud

    (CMB - Centre Marc Bloch - MEAE - Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères - Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

The employment norms reflect political compromise for a particular period that informs a set of practices and cognitive frameworks of social interaction. In this paper we try to demonstrate that the determinants of employment norms are located at the juncture between structural changes in employment regimes and competing discourses that govern their interpretation and retroact on them, chiefly through public policies. Three dimensions of employment regimes corresponding to key roles of discourses are at stake: Relations to the state shows how the public sphere is a space for elaborating public problems; the social power of interest groups is connected to the discourse and forms of regulation tied to organizations and institutions; finally, the forms of market competition are linked to the industrial and occupational discourses on employment. Building on this theoretical framework, we show that German and French employment norms have undergone contrasting changes since the mid-1990s by carrying out the supra-national discourses on employment "at any price".

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  • Arnaud Lechevalier & Olivier Giraud, 2010. "The breakdown of the employment norms in Europe," Post-Print halshs-00532929, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00532929
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