H2020Индивидуална стипендия2022–2024

WELTECH · Technological Change and Welfare State Reform

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2022-09-01 → 2024-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 163 673 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Technological Change and Welfare State Reform

As societies transitioned from Fordist production regimes of the mid- to late 1900s to the knowledge economy from the 1990s and through the 2000s, technological change became an increasingly disruptive force for advanced capitalist democracies. With increased automation of jobs, workers faced more frequent career interruptions, shorter shelf life of skills, and larger-scale skill obsolescence. At the same time, inequality among workers increased as technological change predominantly affected those carrying out routine tasks, leading to a hollowing out of largely middle-class jobs. With the accelerated dissemination of generative artificial intelligence, it is as of yet unclear to what degree the disruptive effects of technological change will extend to workers carrying out more complex tasks. Welfare states, which have largely matured during the decades post-WW2, have become increasingly ill-equipped to deal with the challenges arising from technological changes. Originally, the prime focus of the welfare state was to redistribute resources both over the life course and from rich to poor, as well as to protect individuals from the effects of adverse life events such as ill health and unemployment. With new social risks arising from the challenges of technological change, this decommodification-approach gradually makes way for a more modern iteration of social policy. However, while the economic effects of technological change are well-researched, we still know relatively little about its effects on policy, and, in particular, how welfare states in the advanced democracies adapt to these new challenges. Likewise, we know little about what determines different adaptations politically. WELTECH seeks to answer these questions by carrying out novel empirical research, and developing a refined theoretical understanding of welfare states change in order to adapt to new economic challenges like technological change.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

WELTECH investigates how and why European welfare states have reacted and adapted to technological change, which – next to climate change and demographic change – arguably constitutes one of the biggest challenges societies face today. The ambition is to make an original and pathbreaking contribution to the theorisation of welfare state change more generally. Rethinking and going beyond the dominant concepts of institutional path dependence and power resources theory in the welfare state literature, the project does so by placing macroeconomic concerns at the centre of a novel conceptualisation of welfare state reforms. In other words, the project hypothesises that policy makers, in deciding over different reform trajectories, are guided primarily by concerns over how to maintain and further stimulate economic growth. In order to make sense of welfare state change, it is therefore crucial to understand a given country’s specific Growth Model, i.e. the composition of different drivers of economic growth, as well as the social bloc composed key voters and important producer groups that prop up the national growth model. To this end, the project carries out a comparative case study of three countries with distinct welfare regimes as well as growth models, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom over the years 2000-2020. WELTECH conceptualises welfare state reforms in the social investment framework analysing in particular how technological disruption has led to changes in different stock, flow, and buffer policies.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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