Dialogue Seminar

“The future of work, care, and welfare in Europe and China”

Part I

Amsterdam 3-5 July

VU University Amsterdam

Acknowledgement

This seminar has received generous funding from the China – Netherlands Joint Scientific Thematic Research Programme (JSTP) (Grant number 045.011.011). The JSTP aims at stimulating sustainable research collaboration by funding Joint Research Projects and Dialogue Seminars. The funding partners on the Dutch side are the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The partners on the Chinese side are Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (MoST); Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China (MoE); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).

Contents

Acknowledgement...... II Background and set-up of the seminar ...... 1 Program ...... 2 Wednesday, July 3rd – Day 1 ...... 2 Thursday, July 4th – Day 2...... 4 Friday, July 5th - Day 3 ...... 5 The seminar location and directions ...... 6 Principle researchers ...... 7 Prof. Dr. Anton Hemerijck, ...... 8 Prof. Dr. Yang Weiguo, Renmin University of China, ...... 9 Participants from Chinese Universities and Research institutes ...... 10 Prof. Dr. QIU Yulin ...... 11 Prof. Dr. PAN Jintang, ...... 13 Prof. Dr. LI Zhen, ...... 14 Prof. Dr. ZHOU Hong ...... 15 Prof. Dr. XIONG Yuegen ...... 16 Dr. LI Ying, ...... 17 Participants from European Universities and Research institutes ...... 18 Dr. Karen Anderson ...... 19 Dr. Duco Bannink ...... 21 Prof. Dr. Marjolein Broese van Groenou ...... 22 Prof. Dr. Gareth Davies ...... 25 Verena Dräbing ...... 26 Dr. Franca van Hooren ...... 27 Dr. LIU Tao ...... 29 Prof. Dr. Cor J. van Montfort ...... 30 Menno Soentken ...... 31 Matthias Stepan ...... 32 Dr. SUN Li ...... 33 Dr. Fleur Thomese ...... 34

Prof. Dr. Willem Trommel, ...... 35 Dr. Inger Plaisier ...... 36 Dr. Willemijn Roozendaal ...... 37 Prof. Dr. Barbara Vis ...... 38 Prof. Dr. Jonathan Zeitlin ...... 39 Contact ...... 40

Background and set-up of the seminar

The reform and adaptation of social security systems is a constant task for decision makers in Europe and China and a research theme that is of both scientific and societal relevance. Due to processes such as ageing, changing labour markets and modern family structures the administrative and financial foundations of existing social security systems are put under strong pressure. Beyond the considerations of the financial sustainability, the question of how to reconcile work, care and welfare is of key prominence in Europe and China.

Even though there is a declared mutual interest in exchanging on research methods and in learning about existing policies, there is still an observable gap in the knowledge and understanding of the respective counterpart. Joint research projects have the potential to study the reform in comparative perspective and bridge the aforementioned gaps.

The grant application under the headline of “the future of work, care and welfare in Europe and China” has received the funding to hold two seminars. A first one in Amsterdam, in July 2013, and a follow-up seminar in Beijing, in September 2013. The aim of the seminars is to identify themes for research cooperation and strengthening existing institutional ties between the VU University Amsterdam and Renmin University of China.

Each seminar will cover three days. The format of gatherings will vary between meetings that include all participants and small working groups.

In addition to the purely academic exchange, organisations involved in the decision making and/or provision of social services are approached to allow the participants to familiarize with the challenges of the practitioners on the respective other side.

Program

Wednesday, July 3rd – Day 1

9:15 – 9:30 Registration, tea and coffee

9:30 -10:00 Official opening and welcome:

Drs. René Smit, President VU University Amsterdam Prof. Dr. Anton Hemerijck, Prof. Dr. YANG Weiguo

10:00 – 12:00 Speaker group 1 (Chair: Prof. Dr. Anton Hemerijck)

Prof. Dr. Gareth Davies: “Welfare in changing societies: exploiting the market and protecting social cohesion”

Prof. Dr. Zhou Hong: “A Comparative Approach on Social Welfare Studies in a Globalized World”

Prof. Dr. Willem Trommel: “Localisation of Welfare Policies”

Dr. Liu Tao: “EU-China social security co-operation: A new form of global social policy”

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 15:00 Speaker group 2 (Chair: Dr. Fleur Thomese)

Prof. Dr. Qiu Yulin: “China medical security system reform- from rights for everyone to fairness for everyone”

Prof. Dr. Marjolein Broese van Groenou: ''Informal Care in an aging society”

Prof. Dr. Xiong Yuegen: “Social Change and Social Policy Responses in the Making of New Welfare Regime in China: A Cultural-Institutional Perspective”

15:00 – 15:30 Tea and coffee break

15:30 – 17:30 Speaker group 3 (Chair: Dr. Duco Bannink)

Prof. Dr. Yang Weiguo: “The labor market and employment policy in China”

Dr. Karen Andersen: “The impact of European Integration on national systems of social protection”

Prof. Dr. Pan Jintang: “Ensuring Women's Fair Employment by Public Family Policies”

18:15 – 20:00 Dinner:

Restaurant: Koetjes and Kalfjes (Gustav Mahlerplein 14, 1082 MA Amsterdam, South side of train station Amsterdam Zuid)

Thursday, July 4th – Day 2

9:15 - 9:30 Tea and coffee

9:30 - 11:00 Workshop on the future of work

Main theme: The adaptation of existing social policies (pensions, healthcare etc.) and institutions to support high employment figures, equal opportunities and reconciliation of work and family life

11:00 – 11:15 Tea and coffee break

11:15 – 12:30 Workshop on the future of (welfare) regimes

Main theme: The influence of different levels of government and policy diffusion on the reform and set-up of social policies. An demise of the country level as main unit for analysing social policy and welfare regimes.

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 15:30 Workshop on the future of care

Main theme: The role of family and other non-institutional caregivers in providing adequate services for the needs in old-age.

15:30 – 16:00 Tea break

16:00 - 17:00 Presentation on the WMO by the leader of the WMO unit of the City of Amsterdam, followed by a Q&A session

18:00 – 20:00 Dinner (location to be announced)

Friday, July 5th - Day 3

The seminar participants who take part in the activities in Brussels will meet at the train station Amsterdam Centraal in the morning of July 5 at 8:00 to travel jointly to Brussels. The program at the DG EMPL contains presentations on the social OMC, the European Semester on social policy or on EU social protection policies on behalf of DG EMPL. Furthermore, room for discussion will be provided.

For any further questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact me (mailto: [email protected]).

The seminar location and directions

The location for the seminar on the first two days are the Almazalen on the 10th floor in the building of the Education institute for care and welfare (OZW building). Address: De Boelelaan 1109 1081 HV. The building is due to its architecture a landmark and good to distinguish from the other buildings on the VU Campus – it is red and round-shaped.

For our guests from Amsterdam, take tram 5 or metro 51 and get off at tram stop “De Boelelaan/ VU” and walk three minutes to reach the building.

For our participants who arrive in the morning from other cities in the Netherlands:

• if you arrive at central station, take metro 54 to Spaklerweg, step over to metro 51 (direction Amstelveen) and get off at the metro station “De Boelelaan/ VU”. • if you arrive at train station Amsterdam Zuid, take a ten minutes’ walk to the building. • if you arrive by bike/car: there are sufficient parking spaces right opposite the building

Train station Amsterdam Zuid (5 minutes on foot)

Tram stop 5, metro station

51 “De

Boelelaan/ VU”

Location for seminar: OZW building, De Boelelaan 11096

Principle researchers

Prof. Dr. Anton Hemerijck, Faculty of Social Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Anton Hemerijck is Dean of the faculty of Social Sciences and Vice Rector for internationalisation at the VU University Amsterdam. He holds a chair in institutional policy analysis. His doctorate he obtained from Oxford University. Prof. Hemerijck publishes widely on issues of comparative social and economic policy, and institutional policy analysis. His main research foci are the ongoing reforms of European labour markets and welfare states in which the coordination on European level plays an increasing role. Prof. Hemerijck is involved in a number of international research projects, such as the NEUJOBS project funded by the EU. In previous years he has been involved in drafting reports on social Europe for the Finnish (2006), German (2007) and Portuguese (2007) presidencies of the EU.

Major Publications

Changing Welfare States, Oxford University Press, 2013.

‘The Future of the European Social Model’ (with M. Rhodes and M. Ferrera), in: The Global Economic Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Vol. 3, no. 2, 2002, pp. 163-90.

Aftershocks, Economic Crisis and Institutional Choice (- equal co-editor with Ben Knapen and Ellen van Doorne), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009.

Why We Need a New Welfare State (with Gosta Esping-Andersen, Duncan Gallie, and John Myles), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

‘A Dutch Miracle’: Job growth, welfare reform and social concertation in the Netherlands (with Jelle Visser), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1997.

Prof. Dr. Yang Weiguo, Renmin University of China, [email protected]

Prof. Dr. YANG Weiguo is Assistant President at Renmin University of China in Beijing and the Dean of the International College. His Doctorate he obtained from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China. Prof. Yang focuses on the research area of labour and employment economics. He published on Chinese and comparative employment policy. In recent years he has been conducting research for the China National Social Sciences Foundation, central and local governments, as well as some international institutions like the EU. His work is playing an important role in the reform of Chinese labour markets and employment relations. Prof. Yang is involved in a number of international research projects and academic exchange. Among the research reports are the Global Financial Crisis and Chinese Labor Market Policies (EU Social Security Program, Beijing Office, 2009) and the Developments of Labor Relations in China (CCOO Spain, 2008).

Major Publications

‘Measurement of Occupational Gender Segregation’ (with Y. Chen and C. Zhang), in: Chinese Journal of Population Science, No.3 (March 2010).

‘European Flexicurity Model: Origin, Practices and Performance’ (with S. Tang), in: Chinese Journal of European Studies, No.3 (June 2008).

‘Measuring China's Labor Market: A Two-fold Evaluation Based on Indicators and Methodology’ (with Y. Sun), in: Social Sciences in China, No.5 (October 2007).

‘Unemployment Cluster and its Governance in China’, in: Journal of the Renmin University of China, No.3 (May 2006).

‘European Employment Strategy: From Employment Repression to Employment Activation’. (with J. Su), in: Chinese Journal of European Studies, No.6 (December 2005).

Chinese Employability Promotion Strategy in the Context of Dual Transformation, (with X. Zeng et. al.), Beijing: China Renmin University Press, 2010.

Participants from Chinese Universities and Research institutes

Prof. Dr. QIU Yulin, School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, PRC, [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Qiu Yulin is standing director of China Social Insurance Association, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security; Member of China Social Insurance Association Academic Committee, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security; Director of China Medical Insurance Research Association. Prof. Qiu focuses on the research area of social security and medical insurance. In recent years she has been conducting research for the China National Social Sciences Foundation, the China Education Ministry Foundation, central and local governments, and some institutes projects such as China Health Insurance Research Association. From March to September 1998 she was a visiting scholar at University Montesquieu, France. As a visiting scholar did her research at Manitoba University, Canada from January to June 2001.

Her two main research themes are the following:

Research on the Integrated Development of Urban and Rural Health Care System

This research focuses on the basic theory and empirical study of China’s basic urban and rural health care system under the background of “universal health care” in order to make proper proposal for further development of China’s health care system. There are three parts in the book. First part includes the background of this research, the literature review of current research in the field, the assessment of urban and rural health care system’s operating status quo and the integration and conjunction of the urban and rural health care system. Secondly, the practical experience in both China and foreign countries of the operation of urban and rural health care system are introduced. The results of questionnaires in four regions of China are analyzed in this part. Thirdly, the overall planning and recommendation of China’s urban and rural health care system are put forward. The main conclusions of this research are: the keys to urban and rural health care integration are the justice financing and balanced benefit;the direction of the integrated development is to realize the convergence step - by - step, and achieve the aim of constructing the national health care system.

The construction of the public service system and the development of the universal health care

After the realization of the universal health care in China, the establishment and strengthening of the public service system become the essential prerequisite towards the aim of securing everyone’s basic

11 medical service. Recently the health care system of China is facing the challenges from the aging problem, the change of therapeutic means for residents and the management of health care. And it is proposed to address the problem in two aspects: medical insurance management and medical service.

Qiu, Y. (2004). Enlightenment of Canada Social Security System to China, Renmin University of China Journal,No.1(January 2004).

Qiu, Y Comparative Analysis on Pension System Reform in Old and New Member Countries of EU.Europe Research, No.4 (April 2007).

Qiu, Y Practice and Research on Integrating Urban and Rural Health Security Systems, China, China Health Policy Research, No.12( December 2009).

Qiu, Y., Zhai, S. (2010). Thoughts on Improvement of National Health Insurance Funding Mechanism, China Health Insurance, No.5(May 2010)

Qiu, Y., Zhai, S. and Hao, J. (2011). Theory, Empirical Study and Recommendations for the Integrated Development of Urban and Rural Health Care, China Soft Science, No.4 (April 2011)

Qiu, Y., Gong, W. (2012).The construction of the public service system and the development of the universal health care, Journal of Southwest University for Nationalities,No.10(October 2012)

Prof. Dr. PAN Jintang, School of Labor and Human Resources Renmin University of China, Beijing, PRC

Prof. Dr. PAN Jintang is a senior researcher of Theory and Methods of Sociology Research Centre, Renmin University of China; Consultant of "Women's Studies", Renmin University of China; and Deputy Director of Social Security Research Center, Renmin University of China. He used to be a visiting scholar (Fulbright) in the Department of Sociology of Harvard University in 2005-2006. He was acting as chief editor for the Red Flag Press in 1991, and the journal social Insurance of the Renmin University of China Press in 2011. Professor Pan focuses on the research area of social Insurance of old aged and female employment and women’s welfare. He has been conducting research for the China National Social Sciences Foundation on the issue of female employment and women’s welfare, and published widely on issues of Pension Insurance of China and female employment and women’s welfare.

Pan, J. (2012). An Introduction to Social Security (chief editor). Beijing: Beijing Normal University Publishing Group.

Pan, J. (2011). “Innovation and Significance of < the Social Insurance Law of the People's Republic of China>”Journal of Social Sciences, No.11.

Pan, J. (2010). "Sixty years of China's Basic Endowment Insurance in New China", Marxism and Reality, No.1.

Pan, J. (2005). "Survey on Protection Costs of Beijing Female Employees", Women's Studies, No.2.

Pan, J. (2003). "Human Capital Theory of Gender ", Journal of Renmin University of China, No.3.

Pan, J. (2003). "China's History and Current Situation of the Maternity Insurance System", Population Studies, No.2.

Pan, J. (2002). "China's Women Employment and Social Security in the Economic Transition", Management World, No.7.

Pan, J. (2002). "Gender Interests of Endowment Insurance System", China Social Sciences, No.2.

Prof. Dr. LI Zhen, School of Public Administration Renmin University, School of Labour and Human Resource, Renmin University of China, Beijing, PRC,

Prof. LI Zhen is the director of the Institute for Social Security Study at Renmin University of China. Her main research interests are economics, China's economic development, Insurance science, the international economy comparison, social security and social Welfare, demography

Zhen Li, Haidong Wang, Course and Evaluation on Privatization Pension Reform in the UK, “Insurance Studies” 2011(2).

Zhen Li, Haidong Wang, Ping Wang, Research on the Old Age Income Security System in Rural Area of China, “Wuhan University Journal (Philosophy & Social Science)”, 2010 (9).

Zhen Li, Yimeng Zhou, Social Old Age Security System “Sweden Mode”-What does Sweden Nominal Individual Account Solve “Dynamic Economics”, 2010(8)

Li Zhen (2008). Study on the Management System of Basic Old Age Social Insurance Individual Account Fund”, chief editor, China Labor and Social Security Publishing House.

Li Zhen (2005). “Choice on China Old-Age Social Insurance Management Mode-Based on International Comparative Study”, chief editor, People's Publishing House.

Prof. Dr. ZHOU Hong, Institute of European Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, PRC, [email protected]

Prof. ZHOU Hong is the director of the institute of European Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Professor Dr. ZHOU Hong holds PhD in comparative history from Brandeis University. She has been elected as a standing member of China Economic and Social Council, a vice president of Chinese Association for International Relations, and serves as a consultant to the Chinese Ministry of Personnel and Social Security. Her research interests concern EU- China relations and comparative social policy. Zhou Hong has been the chief editor of a number of books on the institutions and structures of the welfare state in country around the globe and author of a number of influential books and journal articles in Chinese on comparative social policy.

Zhou, Hong, (ed.) (2011) Human Resources and Social Security Social Security Strategic Research Group, "125 countries (regions) of social security funds flow", China Labor and Social Security Press.

Zhou, Hong, (ed.) (2011), Human Resources and Social Security Social Security Strategic Research Group, "50 countries (regions) illustrated the social security institutions", China Labor and Social Security Publishing House.

Zhou, Hong (ed) (2011) Human Resources and Social Security Social Security Strategic Research Group, "30 countries (regions) report on the social security system", China Labor and Social Security Publishing House.

Zhou, Hong (ed.) (2010) Human Resources and Social Security Social Security Strategic Research Group, "International Comparison of the social security system", China Labor and Social Security Publishing House.

Zhou, Hong (2006). Whither the Welfare State. Beijing: Social Science Publishing House.

Prof. Dr. XIONG Yuegen, Department of Sociology, Peking University, Beijing, PRC, [email protected]

Prof. Dr. XIONG Yuegen specializes in social policy (institutional analysis on social policy ) and comparative welfare regimes research. He obtains his PhD in social welfare from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1998. He was the British Academy KC Wong Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford from November 2002- September 2003.

He is currently leading a research project on “Social Foundations of Inclusive Growth and Development of Social Policy in Transitional China” funded by the National Foundation for Philosophy and Social Sciences of China.

Prof. Dr Xiong has published extensively in the field of social policy, comparative welfare regimes, social work, NGOs and civil society. He is the executive managing editor of the China Journal of Social Work (Routledge) and an editorial member of Asian Social Work and Policy Review (Wiley) and Asian Education and Development Studies (Emerald).

Xiong, Y. (2008). Needs, Reciprocity and Shared Function: Policy and Practice of Elderly Care in Urban China. Shanghai: Shanghai Renmin Press.

Xiong, Y. (2009). Social Policy: Theories and Analytical Approaches. Beijing: Renmin University Press.

Xiong, Y. (2012). Social inequality and inclusive growth in China: the significance of social policy in a new era”, Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 20(3), pp.277-290.

Xiong, Y. “The idea of welfare and the limits of social policy in China: A historical institutionalism perspective”. China Social Work Research, Vol.8, pp.40-65 (in Chinese )

Xiong, Y. (2009). "Social Change and Social Policy in China: National Adaptation to Global Challenge", International Journal of Japanese Sociology (Blackwell-Wiley), 18 (1), November, pp.33-44.

Dr. LI Ying, School of Public Administration Renmin University, School of Labour and Human Resource, Renmin University of China, Beijing, PRC

Dr. LI Ying is a lecturer at School of Labor and Human Resources Renmin University of China. Her research interests concern child welfare and disability welfare and public social policies directed at Chinese migrant workers.

LI Ying, “Early childhood care and education: Current situations and policy options”, Journal of Population

， 2013.2 [in Chinese]

Li Ying, " An analysis of the needs and social policy of persons with mental illness ", Social Security Research, 2012.1 [in Chinese]

LI Ying, "The settlement and rights protection of migrants in their destination", Dongyue Tribune, 33(6), 2012 [in Chinese]

LI Ying & Nelson Chow, “Social policy of rural-urban migrants: An analytical framework and its application”, Journal of Renmin University of China, 26(5), 2012 [in Chinese]

LI Ying & Ernest Chui, China’s policy on Rural-urban Migrants and Urban Social Harmony, Asian Social Science, 7(7), July 2011 [in English]

Li, Y., & Chui, E. (2010). Governmental Policy and Social Exclusion of Rural Migrants in Urban China. Asian and Pacific migration journal, 19(2), 295-306.

Participants from European Universities and Research institutes

Dr. Karen Anderson, Faculty of Management Science, RU Nijmegen, the Netherlands, [email protected]

Karen Anderson is Associate Professor of Political Science. Her research falls within the field of Comparative Politics, with a focus on the politics of welfare state change, the relationship between welfare states and labor markets, and trade unions as political actors. Her research is in the field of comparative social policy and focuses on the politics of welfare state development. A central motivation of her research is an interest in understanding the causes and consequences of cross-national variations in welfare state institutions and links between national systems of social protection and economic performance. The theoretical orientation that guides her research is historical institutionalism, because she insists on the importance of explaining where actor preferences come from, why actors often adopt policies that are not perfectly “rational”, and the central role played by long-term social and political processes in shaping processes of institutional change and stability (see Immergut and Anderson 2008). She also draws theoretical inspiration from class-based accounts of welfare state development and the insights generated by the Varieties of Capitalism literature. Much of her research is explicitly comparative, either across sectors of the welfare state within one country, or across countries.

1. Welfare states and production regimes Her research relies on a broad conception of the welfare state; she is not only interested in the causes and consequences of social policy-making by local, national and supranational governments, but also in the links between social policy, education systems, labor markets, and production regimes.

Anderson, K. and Hassel, A. (2013). “Pathways of Change in Coordinated Market Economies. Training regimes in Germany and the Netherlands.” In Anne Wren (ed.) The Political Economy of the Service Transition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 171-194.

Anderson, K. (2012). “The Netherlands: Reconciling Labour Market Flexibility with Security in Old Age.” In Matteo Jessoula and Karl Hinrichs (eds.) Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 203-230.

Anderson, K. and Oude Nijhuis, D. (2012). “The Long Road to Collective Skill Formation in the Netherlands.” In Marius Busemeyer and Christine Trampusch (eds.), The Comparative Political Economy of Collective Skill Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 101-125.

Immergut, Ellen M., Isabelle Schulze and Karen Andersen, eds. (2007) The Handbook of Pension Politics in Western Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 932 pages.

2. Welfare markets, private actors and non-state social provision Investigation into the dynamics of institutional change in the area of “private social policy.” Until recently, the welfare state literature has been dominated by research on the public provision of social welfare, ignoring or downplaying the role of private actors in the provision of social protection and governments’ role in regulating these private actors. Moreover, focusing on the role of private actors in social policy provision highlights the effects of financialization on welfare regimes. Housing and pensions are policy areas that have undergone substantial financialization in the past two to three decades. Policies that encourage home ownership involve the public regulation of extensive mortgage markets. Similarly, funded pension schemes like those in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark and the UK rely on the investment returns generated by billions of euros of investments on financial markets. In other words, if financialization influences welfare state institutions, this effect should be particularly strong in the sectors where large sums of private capital are invested in both domestic and international markets, as they are in the home mortgage sector and funded pension schemes.

Anderson, K. (2011). “Occupational Pensions in the Netherlands: Adapting to Demographic and Economic Change.” In Bernhard Ebbinghaus (ed.), The Varieties of Pension Governance: Pension Privatization in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 292-317.

Anderson, K.(2007). “The Promise and Perils of Multipillar Pension Systems,” WZB Mitteilungen, Heft 117, September, pp. 27-31.

3. The impact of European Integration on national systems of social protection It has become commonplace to argue that we cannot understand welfare state change at the national level in Europe without considering the role of the EU. My approach to this research topic has been to draw on existing theories of welfare state development as well as the new governance literature in order to investigate the impact of Europe on national welfare states.

Anderson, K. and Kaeding, M. “European Integration and Pension Policy Change.” Forthcoming in British Journal of Industrial Relations.

Anderson, K. Social Policy in the EU. Forthcoming with Palgrave.

Anderson, K. (2010). “Promoting the Multi-Pillar Model? The EU and the Shift toward Multi-Pillar Pension Systems.” In Yuri Borgmann-Prebil and Malcom Ross (eds.) Developing Solidarity in the EU: Citizenship, Governance and New Constitutional Paradigms. Oxford University Press, pp. 216- 234

Dr. Duco Bannink, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, VU University Amsterdam, [email protected]

Duco Bannink works as an associate professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences. His research concerns the formation and implementation of social and labour market policies. He is primarily interested by the changing relations between national and local government in the management of activating labour market policies. Next to his teaching and scientific work, Bannink conducts policy-oriented research, advice and training projects for municipal governments.

Bannink, D.B.D., Bosselaar, J.H. & Veer, J.C.V. van der (2013). Do local landscapes emerge? Reflecting on local welfare crafting in the Netherlands. In D.B.D. Bannink, J.H. Bosselaar & W.A. Trommel (Eds.), Crafting Local Welfare Landscapes (pp. 141-154). The Hague: Eleven International Publishers.

Bannink, D.B.D. & Ossewaarde, M.R.R. (2012). Decentralisation. New modes of governance and administrative responsibility. Administration and Society, 44(5), 595-624.

Hoogenboom, M., Bannink, D.B.D. & Trommel, W.A. (2010). From local to global, and back. Business History, 52(6), 933-955.

Hoogenboom, A.B., Trommel, W.A. & Bannink, D.B.D. (2008). European knowledge societies (plural)- the rise of new knowledge types and the division of labour in the EU.Intereconomics, 43(6), 359-370.

Brandao-Moniz, A., Ramires Paulos, M. & Bannink, D.B.D. (2009). Change processes and methodologies of future perspectives on work (Work organiastion and restructuring in the knowledge society). Leuven: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Prof. Dr. Marjolein Broese van Groenou, Department of Sociology, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, [email protected]

In our research group we focus on informal care in later life, both from the perspective of the caregiver (spouse, children, relatives, non-kin and volunteers) and the care recipient (the older adult in need of care). The aim is to increase insight in how individuals deal with the increased demand for informal care in a society characterized by cutbacks in professional care and a political discourse placing high responsibility on older adults to arrange their own home care in times of need. Our research is largely quantitative and uses population surveys. In addition, small locally based studies are also involved, employing both qualitative and quantitative methods. In these studies we cooperate with researchers from the Amsterdam Centre on Aging, the department of Organizational Sciences, and the Netherlands Institute for Social Research in The Hague. There are five main projects:

1.Societal participation of older adults: providing informal care, voluntary work and paid employment. This research focuses on ‘new’ generations of older adults and examines to what degree they are more able and willing to participate in society, in particular by providing informal care and/or voluntary work. Data set: the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA, a population based study among 55-85 year olds, seven waves between 1992 and 2012). Cohort-sequential and longitudinal analyses to study individual aging in a changing society.

Suanet, B., Tilburg, T.G. van & Broese Van Groenou, M.I. (2013, accepted). Non-kin in Older Adults’ Personal Networks: More Important Among Later Cohorts? Journals of Gerontology Series B. Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.

Broese van Groenou, M.I. & van Tilburg, T.G. (2012). Six-year follow-up on volunteering in later life: A cohort comparison in the Netherlands. European Sociological Review, 28, 1-11.

2.The use of formal and informal care by older adults: Changes over time, cross-national comparisons, socio-economic differences in use of care, use of care after hospital admittance, use of care in the last year of life. Main theoretical framework employed is an adapted version of the Andersen- Newman model on use of health care. Data-sets: Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA; main study and LASA-side studies ‘Family care’ and ‘Care in last year of life’) and SHARE.

Suanet, B., Broese van Groenou, M.I. and van Tilburg, T.G. (2012). Informal and formal home-care use among older adults in Europe: can cross-national differences be explained by societal context and composition? Ageing and Society, 32, 491-515.

Pot, A.M., Portrait, F., Visser, G., Puts, M., Broese van Groenou, M.I. & Deeg, D.J.H. (2009). Utilization of acute and long-term care in the last year of life: comparison with survivors in a population-based study. BMC Health Services Research, 9:139.

Tolkacheva, N., Broese van Groenou,M.I. & van Tilburg, T.G. (2013, online first). Sibling similarity and sharing the care for older parents. Journal of Family Issues.

3.Provision of informal care: determinants and outcomes of informal care provision. Topics studied involve: sharing the care, positive and negative outcomes of care, work and care, informal care in residential settings. The studies are conducted in colloboration with Dr. Alice de Boer from the Netherlands Institute of Social Research. Data-set: the national representative survey on Informal caregivers in 2007.

Broese van Groenou, M.I., De Boer, A., & Iedema, J. (2013, online first). Positive and negative evaluation of caregiving among three different types of informal care relationships. European Journal of Aging.

Tolkacheva, N., Broese van Groenou, M.I., De Boer, A., & Van Tilburg, T.G. (2011). The impact of the informal caregiving network on adult child’s caregiver burden. Ageing and Society, 31, 34-51.

4.Care networks of older adults: connections and cooperation between informal and formal caregivers of older adults in need. Data is collected on the care networks of 75 older adults in Amsterdam and surroundings, informal and formal caregivers are interviewed, as well as managers from the home care organizations. Together with prof.dr. D. Deeg (VUmc) and Prof. P. Groenewegen (VU, Organizational Science). Grant received from the National Program on the Elderly (2010-2014). Publications in progress:

Jacobs, M., Broese van Groenou, M.I., De Boer, A., & Deeg, D.J.H. (2013, accepted). Individual determinants of task division in older adults’ mixed care networks. Health and Social Care in the Community.

Broese van Groenou, M.I., Olde-Zwart, I., Jacobs, M., & Deeg, D.J.H. (submitted). Mixed care networks of older adults with physical health impairments. Health and Social Care in the Community.

5.Combining work and informal care. The study investigates how juggling work and care affects employees’ levels of stress and intentions to alter the work situation within the context of caregiver friendly policies. Cooperation with prof.dr. Saskia Keuzenkamp and the National Centre for Social Studies (Movisie). Data set: about 9000 employers from 50 organisations; both informal caregivers, their colleagues and their managers report on the attitudes regarding informal care, stress levels and characteristics of work and care. Publications in progress:

Plaisier, I., Broese van Groenou, M.I. & Keuzenkamp, S. (submitted). Care-giving employees and employers who care: balance and needs for job adjustment among informal caregivers.

Tolkacheva, N., Plaisier, I., Keuzenkamp, S. & Broese van Groenou, M.I. (submitted). Caregiving employees and caregiver friendly policies: stress and individual adjustments to work.

Prof. Dr. Gareth Davies, Faculty of Law, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, [email protected]

Gareth Davies is Professor of European Law. His research concerns primarily the division of powers between the EU and Member States, particularly in the context of economic integration. He has written on the internal market, subsidiarity, the preliminary reference procedure, and the balancing of interests in economic law. As part of a VIDI project funded by the Netherlands Scientific Organisation he is researching the constitutional and policy implications of PPM regulation within the EU. He also participates in the Amsterdam Global Change Institute.

Davies, G.T. (2012). Activism relocated: the self-restraint of the European Court of Justice in its national context. Journal of European Public Policy, 19(1), 76-91.

Davies, G.T. (2012). Freedom of movement, horizontal effect, and freedom of contract. European Review of Private law, 20(3), 805-828.

Davies, G.T. (2010). The price of letting courts value solidarity: the judicial role in liberalizing welfare. In M. Ross & Y. Borgmann-Prebil (Eds.), Promoting solidarity in the European Union (pp. 106-122). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Davies, G.T. (2007). The community's internal market-based competence to regulate healthcare: scope, strategies and consequences. Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative law, 14(3), 215- 238.

Verena Dräbing, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, [email protected]

Verena Dräbing is a doctoral researcher. The focus of her PhD research is on social investment in European Welfare states, in particular the question whether a turn to more public investment in education, family policies and active labour market policies is taking place. Furthermore, I study the drivers of such reforms as well as the consequences in terms of poverty, employment and public balances. In addition, my PhD is financed NEUJOBS, a 7th framework project financed by the EU which focuses on possible future developments of the European labour market(s). Within this project, I contribute to the work package on welfare performance and work and family reconciliation.

Hemerijck, A.C., Dräbing, V., Vis, B., Nelson, M. & Soentken, M.F.F. (2013).European welfare states in motion. Brussels: NEUJOBS.

Dr. Franca van Hooren, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, [email protected]

Franca van Hooren works as a postdoctoral researcher at the VU University Amsterdam. After obtaining her PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence, she was working in Research Centre "Transformations of the State" at the University of Bremen.

1.For the Balance in the New Welfare State: research on recent institutional changes in five small European welfare states (the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, and Ireland) and their impact on inequality and poverty. Attention is paid in particular to policies for working parents with young children, lone parents, young school-leavers, and the older unemployed.

2.Economic Crises and Welfare States in Small Open Economies: comparative research project on the consequences of economic crisis for the welfare state. The research results show that welfare states have responded very differently to economic shocks and that there is no general demise of the welfare state.

Starke, P., Kaasch, A. and Van Hooren, F. (2013), The Welfare State as Crisis Manager: Responses to Major Economic Crisis in Small Open Economies. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

3.Migrant care work in European welfare regimes

For a long time I have worked on the role of migrant workers in the provision of elderly care, child care and domestic work. Since there is a growing demand for care services in European welfare states, while available public budgets decrease, there is a need for cheap care workers. Migrants can fulfil this demand, but this solution often results in inequality in employment conditions as well as in the accessibility of care services. This links the topic of migrant care work directly to important questions about the future of the welfare state.

Van Hooren, F. (2012). ‘Varieties of migrant care work, comparing patterns of migrant labour in social care’, Journal of European Social Policy 22, 2: 133-147.

Van Hooren, F. and Becker, U. (2012). ‘One welfare state, two care regimes: Understanding developments in child and elderly care policies in the Netherlands’. Social Policy & Administration 46, 1: 83-107.

Van Hooren, F. (2011). Caring migrants in European welfare regimes. The policies and practice of migrant labour filling the gaps in social care, PhD Dissertation, European University Institute.

Van Hooren, F. (2008). ‘Welfare provision beyond national boundaries. The politics of migration and elderly care in Italy’, Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche [Italian Journal of Public Policy].

Dr. LIU Tao, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany, tao.liu@uni- bielefeld.de

Dr. Tao Liu is Lecturer in Social Policy and Welfare State Studies at the University of Bielefeld. In December 2010 he completed his PhD study from Bielefeld University with the doctoral thesis “Global diffusion of knowledge and national welfare state development. The introduction of statutory accident insurance in China”. His research interests are new welfare state research, global social rights, global social policy, global inequality research, long-term care insurance, social assistance and land policy in developing countries. Since September 2010, Tao Liu is researcher in the interdisciplinary research project “Social Cash Transfers- The Global Construction and Diffusion of the Right to a Monetary Minimum”. His research areas include the development of the social cash transfer in both rural and urban areas of China, the diffusion of the policy ideas in social cash transfer, the new social pension system in rural areas of China. Additionally, he is undertaking an explorative study on the transfer of the German statutory long-term care insurance to China.

Liu, Tao; Flöthmann, E.-J. 2012: “The new ageing society: Demographic transition and its effects on old- age insurance and care of the elderly in China.” Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie 45 (Dec.): 1-12.

Liu, Tao 2012: The welfare system and social policy in Germany. In: Gong, Sen; Ge, Yanfeng: The international comparisons on the welfare system and social policy. Beijing: China Development Press.

Liu, Tao 2011: “The inspiration of the German social assistance reform to the Minimum Living Standard Scheme in China” Social Security Research (shehui baozhang yanjiu) 11 (02): 158-170.

Liu, Tao; Leisering, Lutz 2010: Globale Wissensdiffusion in der Sozialpolitik. Die Einführung einer Arbeitsunfallversicherung in der Volksrepublik China (Global diffusion of knowledge in the social policy. The introduction of a work accident insurance scheme in the People’s Republic of China). Zeitschrift für Sozialreform (Journal of Social Policy Research) 56 (2): 173-205

Liu, Tao 2007: The responsibility of the state government in construction of social welfare system. In: Liu, Tao: Strategies for the development of China (zhongguo jueqice). Beijing: Xinhua Publishing House, Chapter 19, 193-207

Prof. Dr. Cor J. van Montfort, Tilburg University, Scientific Council for Government Policy, and Netherlands Court of Audit [email protected] and [email protected]

Prof. van Montfort is professor ‘good governance and public-private arrangements’ at Tilburg University, invitational professor at the Scientific Council for Government Policy and project manager at the Netherlands Court of Audit. He studied political science and wrote at the Utrecht University his dissertation about civil society and institutional reform (1996). His research focuses on public private partnerships and public entrepreneurship in several policy sectors, and on the future of the national systems of health care, pension provision and housing. In 2009, he was visiting fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra. He chaired national commissions on codes of good governance in child care and higher education. From 2007-2012 he also was head of the sections PPP and Education, Culture and Science at the Netherlands Court of Audit.

Montfort, C. van, Boers, F. Hoek and J. Wieles (2013) ‘Public-private partnerships: international audit findings’, in Handbook of PPP’. In: P. de Vries e.a., The Routledge Companion to public-private partnerships, Routledge.

Montfort, C. van, and A. Michels, ‘Partnerships as a contribution to urban governance in India and China’. In: Journal of US – China public administration, jan. 2013, vol. 10 (1), p. 26-38.

Montfort, C. van , W. Van Dooren, W. and A. Michels ‘The sound of silence: silent ideologies in public services’. In: Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Mahmud A. Shareef, Sanjay Pandey and Vinod Kumar (eds.) Public administration reformation: market demand from public organizations, New York: Routledge. (accepted, to be published winter 2013).

Montfort, C. van , A. Michels, ‘Urban governance and partnerships in Indian and Chinese cities. Examples from Delhi, Beijing and Shanghai. In: Leon van den Dool, Frank Hendriks, Alberto Gianoli and Linze Schaap (eds.) Good Urban Governance, Springer VS. (accepted, to be published 2013 or 2014).

Montfort, C. van, W. Asbeek Brusse, Wonen, zorg en pensioenen. Hervormen en verbinden (‘Housing, health care and pension provision. Reforming and connecting’), The Hague: WRR, 2013.

Menno Soentken, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, [email protected]

Menno Soentken is a doctoral researcher and lecturer. In his PhD project he is researching the development of New Social Risk (NSR) policies in European welfare states. NSRs are seen as situations in which individuals experience welfare losses and which have arisen as a result of the socio-economic transformations that have taken place over the past decades (Bonoli, 2006). Examples of these transformations are deindustrialization and tertiarisation of employment and the massive entry of woman into the labour force. Empirically, this research assess to what extent and in what way NSR policies have been developed and implemented in five open European economies over the past 20 years. Theoretically this research contributes to the debate about institutional change. Why and through what mechanisms do welfare states reform? Which actors are involved in the change process and what role do they play?

Hemerijck, A.C., Dräbing, V., Vis, B., Nelson, M. & Soentken, M.F.F. (2013).European welfare states in motion. Brussels: NEUJOBS.

Mascini, P., Soentken, M.F.F. & van der Veen, R.. (2012). From welfare to workfare. The implementation of workfare policies. In M. Yerkes, R. van der Veen & P. Achterberg (Eds.), The Transformation of Solidarity. Changing Risks and the Future of the Welfare State (pp. 165-189). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

Matthias Stepan, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, [email protected]

Matthias Stepan is a doctoral researcher and junior lecturer. Trained in comparative social policy, his main research interest are in explaining for the processes and outcome of social policy reforms, policy making and governance in multi-level systems. His visits to China since 2006 have sparked his interest in including the research on Chinese social policy in a broader comparative context. After obtaining his master degree at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, he has been affiliated with the EU China Social Security Reform Cooperation Project - a twin project between the European Commission and the Chinese government on exchanging the best practice for developing sustainable social security systems. The defense of his dissertation that deals with the transformation of the Chinese pension system in a multi- level government context is expected for late 2013. For his future research he wants to focus on the comparison of social security systems in large uneven developers (such as China, the Russian Federation, Brasil and India) and the coordination mechanism among member countries to regional economic integration projects (such as the EU, NAFTA, Mercosur).

Stepan, M. & Lu, Q. (2012). Free movement of labor, free movement with social entitlements? In . York: Joint Annual Conference of the East Asian Social Policy Research Network (EASP) and the United Kingdom Social Policy Association (SPA).

Stepan, M. (2012). Recent reforms of the civil servants’ pension system in Germany – keeping it separate but making old age income more equal. Journal of Social Security Studies, 16(2), 108-117.

Stepan, M. & Müller, A. (2012). Welfare Governance in China? A Conceptual Discussion of Governing Social Policies and the Applicability of the Concept to Contemporary China. The Journal of Cambridge Studies, 7(4), 54-72.

Barker, S.J. & Stepan, M. (2009). Employment Policy Evaluation Framework Initiative.Beijing: EU-China Social Security Reform Co-operation Project.

Stepan, M. (2008). The development of the Chinese welfare state and the prospects of EU policy diffusion. Erasmus University Rotterdam: Master Thesis.

Dr. SUN Li, TU Delft, the Netherlands, [email protected]

SUN Li is a post-doctoral researcher at TU Delft, where she works on a project on land and institutions in China funded by the European Research Council. She received her PhD in sociology from Bielefeld University, Germany. Prior to that, she obtained the master degree by joining the Erasmus programme of International Master of Rural Development, studying in Humboldt University, Ghent University, Wageningen University, and Pisa University. Her research interest is social policies on Chinese migrant workers, land institutions in China, and gender studies.

Li Sun(2012): Women, Public Space, and Mutual Aid in Rural China, Asian Women, Vol.28, No.3: 75-102

Sony Pellissery and Li Sun(2012): Rural Development, in China, India, and East and Southeast Asia: Assessing Sustainability, pp 324-27,edited by Ray Anderson, Berkshire.

Li Sun( 2011): Policies on Migrant Workers’ Employment in Contemporary China, Journal of US-China Public Administration, Vol.8, No.11: 1261-1274

Jun He and Li Sun (2007): A Social Network Research on Technical Extension in Livestock: Take Milk Cow Livestock in X Village in Inner Mongolia as an Example, Rural Economy, No.9: 87-89 (in Chinese)

Xiaoyun Li and Li Sun (2007): The Impact of Public Spaces on Farmers' Social Capital: A Case Study of Huangxi Village, Jiangxi Province, Journals of China Agricultural University (Humanities and Social Edition), Vol.24. No.1: 82-97 (in Chinese)

Li Sun and Jun He (2006): The research on Female Migrant Workers who Move to Cities but Engaging in Farm Activities, Rural Economy, No.11: 92-94 (in Chinese)

Dr. Fleur Thomese, Department of Sociology, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, [email protected]

Fleur Thomese is an associate professor in the Department of sociology and the Director of the Talma institute – an interdisciplinary research institute for the study of Work, Care, and Welfare that brings together researchers with a background in the Social Sciences, Economics, Health and Life Sciences, Law, Philosphy, and Medical research. Trained in scoial gerontology her research focuses on changes in social cohesion and solidarity at micro and macro levels, with a focus on the consequences of population aging. Her empirical work is based in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam, and increasingly in comparative studies.

Rouwendal, J. & Thomese, G.C.F. (in press). Homeownership and long-term care. Housing Studies.

Deeg, D.J.H., Huisman, M., Terwee, C.B., Comijs, H.C., Thomese, G.C.F. & Visser, M. (2013). Changes in functional ability with ageing and over time. In C Phellas (Ed.),Ageing in European Societies (International perspectives on aging, 6) (pp. 117-132). New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London: Springer.

Bloem, B.A., Tilburg, T.G. van & Thomese, G.C.F. (2008). Changes in older Dutch adults' role networks after moving. Personal Relationships, 15, 465-478.

Bloem, B.A., Tilburg, T.G. van & Thomese, G.C.F. (2008). Residential mobility in older Dutch adults: Influence of late life events. International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 3(1), 21-44.

Beck, W., Maesen, L.J.G. van der, Thomese, G.C.F. & Walker, A. (2001). Social Quality: A Vision for Europe (Studies in Employment and Social Policy). The Hague/London/Boston: Kluwer Law International.

Prof. Dr. Willem Trommel, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Willem Trommel is Professor in Public Policy and Governance at the VU University Amsterdam. The central themes of his research concern the dynamics in governance. He is primarily interested by the changing relations between the global, the national and local government in the management of activating labour market policies and other policies generally related to the welfare state.

Trommel, W.A. (2013). A study into welfare localization. In D.B.D Bannink, J.H. Bosselaar & W.A. Trommel (Eds.), Crafting Local Welfare Lanscapes (pp. 9-23). Den Haag: Eleven.

Hoogenboom, M.J.M., Bannink, D.B.D. & Trommel, W.A. (2012). Ritzer malgré lui: Reply to "Still enamoured of the glocal: a comment on from local to grobal, and back". Business History, 54(5), 805-809.

Marcel Hoogenboom, Duco Bannink, and Willem Trommel (2010), ‘From local to grobal, and back’, Business History, 52 (6): 933-955.

Terpstra, J., W. Trommel, (2009), Police, Managerialization and Presentational Strategies. In: Policing: an International Journal of Policy Strategies and Management 32/1: 128-143 (winner of Emerald Highly Commended Award).

Svensson, J., W. Trommel, T. Lantink (2008). Re-employment Services in the Netherlands: An empirical Study of Bureaucratic, Market and Network Approaches. In: Public Administration Review.

Dr. Inger Plaisier, Department of Sociology, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, [email protected]

Inger Plaisier is a senior researcher in the department of sociology at the VU University Amsterdam and Netherlands Institute of Social Research (SCP) in the Hague. She is working on a project to investigate developments in use of home care between 2004 and 2011 using data of Netherlands Statistics.

Plaisier, I., Broese Van Groenou, M.I. & Deeg, D.J.H. (2012). Kwetsbare ouderen: Zorg of geen Zorg? (vulnerable eldery: care or no care)Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit.

Plaisier, I., Tilburg, T.G. van & Deeg, D.J.H. (2011). Mogelijkheden voor preventie van AWBZ-gebruik: Netwerken van zelfstandig wonende ouderen. (opportunities to avoid the use of government sponsored care: networks of independently living elderly) Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit.

Dr. Willemijn Roozendaal, Faculty of Law, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, [email protected]

Mrs. Willemijn Roozendaal is associate professor in Labour Law and Social Security Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The relevant areas of her interest are: Dutch labour law and social security law and its intersection, especially the income protection of the disabled worker; privacy of the disabled worker and the disabled social security beneficial; prevention and cure of illness in the labour relation; the role of the medical profession in re-integration of the disabled worker.

Other areas of interest are: law with respect to dismissals; fundamental rights in the labour relation; the protection of workers with care responsibilities; working time protection; European Employment Law, especially equal treatment law and protection of health and safety at the workplace. Her dissertation (30 september 2011) was entitled ‘ Work and Private Life’, and concerned the responbilities of the employer for workers with care responsibilities.

T. Jaspers en W.L. Roozendaal, 'Fundamental social rights: an added value to the protection of workers? The case of work and care', paper for Universiteit van Antwerpen: Labour law or social competition law?, Congress 22-23 november 2012 (in English)

W.L. Roozendaal, Work and private life, diss. Radboud University Nijmegen, Kluwer Deventer 2011 (in Dutch)

M. Opdam en W.L. Roozendaal, 'Taking care of workers on sick leave and the role of the company medical officer’, in: C.E.C. Jansen e.a. (red.), Care duties in public and private law’, Boom Juridische Uitgevers, Den Haag: 2011, p. 103-12 (in Dutch)

W.L. Roozendaal, 'Balancing between medical privacy and due process', Arbeid Integraal 2007/3, p. 63- 76 (in Dutch)

Prof. Dr. Barbara Vis, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, [email protected]

Barbara Vis holds the Fenna Diemer Lindeboom Chair in Political Decision-Making. In 2008, she received a prestigous VENI grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).Her research focuses on the political decision-making of different political actors (like governments) on salient issues (welfare state reform and military intervention. Her research is embedded in the departmental research program ‘Multi-Layered Governance in EUrope and Beyond’ and she is a senior member of the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG). Her research is furthermore dedicated to advance systematic comparative research, especially configurational logic, theoretically, methodologically and practically. She is a member of the editorial board of the series Changing Welfare States of Amsterdam University Press.

Hollanders, D. & Vis, B. (2013). Voters’ commitment problem and reforms in welfare programs. Public Choice, 155(3), 433-448.

Schumacher, G. & Vis, B. (2012). Why do social democrats retrench the welfare state? A simulation. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 15(3), 1-12.

Vis, B., Kersbergen, C.J. van & Hylands, Tom (2011). To what extent did the financial crisis intensify the pressure to reform the welfare state? Social Policy and Administration, 45(4), 338-353.

Vis, B. (2011). Under which conditions does spending on active labor market policies increase? A FsQCA Analysis of 53 governments between 1985 and 2003. European Political Science Review, 3(2), 229-252.

Vis, B. (2009). Governments and unpopular social policy reform: Biting the bullet or steering clear? European Journal of Political Research, 48(1), 31-57.

Kersbergen, C.J. van, Becker, U. & Vis, B. (2008). The politics of welfare state reform in the Netherlands: Explaining a never-ending puzzle. Acta Politica, 43(2-3), 333-356.

Prof. Dr. Jonathan Zeitlin, University of Amsterdam, Department of Political Science, [email protected]

Jonathan Zeitlin is Professor of Public Policy and Governance, and Distinguished Faculty Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences (FMG) at the University of Amsterdam. He holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European and Transnational Governance from the European Commission. Professor Zeitlin's current research focuses on new forms of 'experimentalist' governance within and beyond the European Union, which diverge in various respects from standard hierarchical or 'command and control' models. Defined in general terms, experimentalist governance is a recursive process of provisional goal-setting and revision based on learning from the comparison of alternative approaches to advancing them in different contexts, often organized as a multi-level architecture. His work on the European welfare states includes the following selected publications:

Zeitlin, J. (2010). Towards a Stronger OMC in a More Social Europe 2020: A New Governance Architecture for EU Policy Coordination. In: Marlier, E. and Natali, D. (eds.) Europe 2020: Towards a More Social EU? Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang: 253 - .

Zeitlin, J. and M. Heidenreich (2009). Changing European Employment and Welfare Regimes: The Influence ofthe Open Method of Coordination on National Reforms. New York: Routledge.

Zeitlin, J. (2009). The Open Method of Coordination and reform of national social and employment policies: influences, mechanisms, effects. In: Zeitlin, J. and M. Heidenreich (eds.): Changing European Employment and Welfare Regimes. The influence of the open method of coordination on national reforms. New York: Routledge: 214-245.

Zeitlin, J., Pochet, P., & Magnusson, L. eds. (2005). The Open Method of Coordination in Action: The European Employment and Social Inclusion. P.I.E. Peter Lang.

Zeitlin, J. and D. Trubek, eds. (2003). Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: European and American Experiments. Oxford: Oxford University Press,

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