This paper presents a novel class schema that aims at responding to the analytical challenge of an increasingly tertiarized, skill-intensive and feminized employment structure. For this matter, the traditional vertical class criterion distinguishing between more or less advantageous employment relationships is complemented by a horizontal criterion. The horizontal criterion’s purpose is to separate ...
Welfare states are often reduced to their role as providers of social protection and redistribution. In 1990, Esping-Andersen argued that they also affect employment creation and the class structure. We analyse the stratification outcomes for three welfare regimes – Britain, Germany and Denmark – over the 1990s and 2000s. Based on individual-level surveys, we observe a disproportionate increase among ...