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How can mainstream models and classifications be used in analyzing welfare states and gender? What sorts of modifications to traditional theory are required? These and other questions are addressed in this book - the first to synthesize the insights of feminist and mainstream research in examining the impact of gender on welfare state analysis and outcomes. The text also highlights the effect of welfare state policies on women and men. The international and interdisciplinary contributors approach the subject on two levels. First, they test the applicability of mainstream frameworks to new areas in analyzing gender. Second, they highlight possible reconceptualizations and innovative frameworks designed to provide gender-base
German Pension Insurance, Gendered Times and Stratification
German Pension Insurance, Gendered Times and Stratification
The analysis of stratification in mainstream comparative welfare state analysis has centred on class, occupation and status. Mainstream researchers have characterized the German pension regime as ‘status maintenance’ of different classes of employees according to their status as blue-collar, white-collar employees or civil servants based on occupational performance and earnings (Esping-Andersen et al., 1988; Esping-Andersen, 1990). Joakim Palme (1990) has categorized German pension insurance as a typical example of the ‘income maintenance’ category, where the preservation of a proportion of former earnings is more important than providing a general needs-oriented minimum or ‘basic security’. However, the gender system as an interacting stratifying structure is ignored in these (pension) regime typologies which focus ...