This item is non-discoverable
Lina Seitzl
Former Member
Title
Dr.
Last Name
Seitzl
First name
Lina
Email
lina.seitzl@unisg.ch
Phone
+41 71 224 7209
1 results
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
- Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The end of cooperation? Collective skill formation systems in the knowledge economyThis dissertation asks how collective skill formation systems, typically found in the German-speaking countries, Denmark, and the Netherlands, adapt to changing skill demands in the face of the knowledge economy. Strategic employer coordination and private interest governance are distinctive characteristics of collective skill formation systems, which is why these systems are prime examples of coordinated capitalism. While previous research has described dualisation as a common feature of processes of institutional change in coordinated capitalism, it remains open how collective skill formation systems deal with the pressures that global socio-economic trends, such as globalisation, technological change, and deindustrialisation, put on them. This dissertation provides a fine-grained picture of the preferences of public and private actors in collective skill formation in light of the knowledge economy and describes how these preferences are enforced. In four individual articles, it adopts a meso-level approach, analysing processes of institutional change in two prototypical collective skill formation systems, Austria and Switzerland, and in two training occupations that are particularly affected by the knowledge economy. Its findings support the assumption that “varieties of liberalisation” characterise institutional change in coordinated capitalist economies since dualisation as well as increasing statism in the provision of skills characterise the analysed reforms. It also shows that even in cases where it is possible to preserve high levels of cooperation, collective action is hard to achieve in the long run because of the cooperation dilemmas entailed in these systems. Lastly, this dissertation finds that vocational education and training can be sustained in the knowledge economy, and not only as a venue for the weakest students to access the labour market, but also as a point of entrance to a career for students with higher aspirations.Type:doctoral thesis