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As regards unemployment provision programmes and job protection law in the Netherlands surprisingly little was changed during the crisis. In this chapter, this absence of reforms is attributed to a ‘silent uprising’ on the part of the low and lower-middle classes. Through their support for two new political parties in the Dutch parliament and a change of course by the largest trade union in the Netherlands, they prevented the main political parties from implementing new reforms after two decades of fundamental change in Dutch unemployment provision and job protection systems. At the same time, as a result of attempts to cut back government spending, activation programmes in both unemployment insurance and social assistance were run down. However, it will be claimed in this chapter that a new active labour market policy paradigm is emerging in the Netherlands, which will be dubbed ‘deficiency compensation’. |
