Section: Staff Profiles

Jochen Clasen

Name
Professor Jochen Clasen
Title
Head of Subject Group, Professor of Comparative Social Policy
Organisation
Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
204 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)131 650 9922
E-Mail
Research Interests
comparative social policy,Unemployment,Labour Market,social security,European social policy,welfare reform
URL
http://www.socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk/staff/clasen_jochen

Biographical statement

I joined the School of Social and Political Studies in 2007 as Professor of Comparative Social Policy. Previously I held a Chair in Comparative Social Research at the University of Stirling, and visiting research positions at the Universities of Roskilde, EUI Florence and TÜbingen University. My research areas are comparative social policy research, labour market and social security policy and welfare reform.

I am co-founder and honorary president of ESPAnet, the European Social Policy Analysis network. I am also the editor (jointly with T. Meyer, Southampton University) of the Journal of European Social Policy .

I have held major research grants awarded by the ESRC, European Commission, Anglo-German Foundation, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and smaller awards from the DWP, the Hans-BÖckler Foundation and the Carnegie Trust. Two major recent initiatives are:

2009-2011

Welfare markets and personal risk management in England and Scotland, ESRC, with Alison Koslowski (Edinburgh University) and Traute Meyer (Southampton University) as Co-Investigators. The project runs from October 2009 to November 2011; (total budget of £436,000).

2006-2011

RECWOWE, European Commission FP VI; Network of Excellence on ‘Reconciling Work and Welfare. The coordinator was MSH Nantes (D. Bouget). I was one of four members of the coordinating group (with D. Bouget, J. Lewis and B. Palier); (total budget €4 million). I was responsible for TAC, the training activities centre for research students within RECWOWE.

Recent Theses

I am happy to supervise postgraduate research theses in comparative social policy, particularly in the areas of labour markets, social security and welfare reform. Current PhD projects include: the integration of long-term unemployed in Glasgow (H Bennett); activation policies in the UK and Germany (A. Goerne); cultural policy as social policy in the UK and Germany (J. Johann), global markets for health care labour (E. Plotnikova), retention of migrant workers in Ireland ( K. Quinn), working-age benefits, activation and non-employment in comparative perspective (D. Heap), intergenerational transfers: variations across Europe (T. Emery) and pension reform in the UK (L. Robertson).

My office hours are Wednesdays 9-11 (otherwise please contact me by e-mail).


 

Selected Publications 

Converging Worlds of Welfare? British and German Social Policy in the 21st Century, (ed), Oxford University Press, 2011.

Regulating the Risk of Unemployment. National Adaptations to Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Europe, (ed with Daniel Clegg), Oxford University Press, 2011.

Exit Bismarck, enter dualism? Assessing contemporary German labour market policy, (with A. Goerne), Journal of Social Policy, 40(4), 795-810, 2011.

Les nouvelles politiques de l’emploi au Royaume-Uni et en Allemagne, Critique International, 43, 2, 37-50, 2009.

Flexicurity and welfare state reform: a review, (with E. Heins), Socio-Economic Review, 17(2), 305-331, 2009.

Investigating welfare state change – the dependent variable problem in comparative analysis, (with N.A. Siegel) (eds) Edward Elgar, 2007.

Reforming European Welfare States. Germany and the United Kingdom compared, Oxford University Press, 2005.

Voluntary unemployment insurance and trade union membership - investigating connections in Denmark and Sweden, (with E. Viebrock), Journal of Social Policy, 37, 3, 433-452, 2008.

Comparative social policy - old questions, new topics and original answers, Government and Opposition, 42, 2, 250-57, 2007.

Levels and levers of conditionality – measuring change in mature welfare states, (with D. Clegg) in J. Clasen and N.A. Siegel (eds)  Investigating welfare state change – the dependent variable problem in comparative analysis, Edward Elgar, 166-197, 2007.

Non-employment and the welfare state: the UK and Germany compared, (with J. Davidson, H. Ganssmann and A. Mauer), Journal of European Social Policy, 16, 2, 134-154, 2006.

Das Genter System der Arbeitslosenversicherung – immer noch gewerkschaftliches Rekrutierungsinstrument oder sozialpolitisches Auslaufmodell? DÄnemark und Schweden im Vergleich, (with E. Viebrock) Zeitschrift fÜr Sozialreform, 52, 3, 351-371 , 2006.

 

Beyond activation: reforming European unemployment protection systems in post-industrial labour markets, (with D. Clegg), European Societies, 8, 4, 555-581, 2006.

 

Does the third way work? The Left and labour market Policy reform in Britain, France and Germany, (with D. Clegg), in J. Lewis and R. Surender (eds) Welfare State Change: towards a Third Way? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

 

Unemployment protection and labour market reform in France and Great Britain in the 1990s: solidarity versus activation? (with D. Clegg), Journal of Social Policy, 32, 2, 361-381, 2003.

Towards a new welfare state or reverting to type? Some major trends in British social policy since the early 1980s, European Legacy, 8, 5, 573-586, 2003.

Topics interested in supervising

I am happy to supervise postgraduate research theses in comparative social policy, particularly in the areas of labour markets, social security and welfare reform. Most of the theses I have supervised are cross-national in character involving European countries in particular.

If you are interested in being supervised by Jochen Clasen, please see the links below for more information:

PhD in Social Policy

This page was published on 23 September 2011


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