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Programme
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Importing Unemployment Insurance: Foreign Models and National Insurance Programmes in Scandinavia 1890–1914
| In 1906 and 1907, Norway and Denmark introduced national
unemployment insurance programmes based on the Ghent model,
one of several available programmes. The purpose of this
paper is to analyse the different foreign models and their
impact on the early national programmes. Two questions lead
the analysis. First of all, how was knowledge about the
foreign programmes acquired? This question concerns actors,
channels and networks, and searchlight will be turned
towards the different networks of reform available and the
channels used by Scandinavian reformers. Secondly, how was
this knowledge introduced and used in the domestic settings?
This has to do with the interplay between the emerging
European unemployment reform discourse and the domestic
settings in different countries. One can for instance note
that Swedish labour reformers rejected the Ghent model at
the same time as it was adopted in the neighbouring
countries.
A starting point for my paper is that diverse forms of
political transfer, consisting of both descriptions of
problems, of social categorizations and reform plans, played
an important part all in the regulation of unemployment and
organisation labour markets over Europe. Two networks - the
first one, the from the literature relatively well-known
larger European setting, and the second, the largely
unknown, intra-Nordic setting - were vitally important in
the transfer processes. My paper also stresses the
significance of the international journals devoted to social
reform. They formed a primary channel for the dissemination
of social knowledge. Further more, the significance of the
domestic contexts for successful transfer, both the
institutional setting and the outlook of political actors,
is also underlined.
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