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Patterns of change in youth unemployment regimes: F rance and S witzerland compared
Author(s) -
Chabanet Didier,
Giugni Marco
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of social welfare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1468-2397
pISSN - 1369-6866
DOI - 10.1111/ijsw.12009
Subject(s) - unemployment , egalitarianism , economics , youth unemployment , demographic economics , labour economics , political science , economic growth , politics , law
The comparison between F rance and S witzerland enables us to compare a country that has a strong interventionist tradition in the labour market and whose youth unemployment is endemically high with a more liberal country that is faced with a more recent increase in youth unemployment but which, nevertheless, remains relatively measured. Starting from different rules and values, the two youth unemployment systems resemble each other insofar as both exclude most unemployed youth from all available benefits. From this angle, F rench egalitarianism rejoins S wiss differentialism. In both cases, it is not the least of paradoxes that the system of unemployment insurance so little benefits those who are most vulnerable to the economic crisis and the present dearth of jobs.