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David Rueda, Erik Wibbels, Melina Altamirano

2015

The politics of advanced capitalism

2006

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Cambridge University Press

1 “The Origins of Dualism” David Rueda Oxford University [email protected] Erik Wibbels Duke University e.wibbel Page 1 1 “The Origins of Dualism” David Rueda Oxford University [email protected] Erik Wibbels Duke University [email protected] Melina Altamirano Duke University [email protected] Page 2 2 From Spain and Greece to Brazil and South Africa, dualized labor markets are a worldwide phenomenon. In many countries, workers are divided between those with permanent contracts that come with valuable benefits and extensive labor market protections and those who work under contingent contracts or no contracts at all. This latter group receives few or no labor market protections and lower levels of social benefits. They are the world’s labor market outsiders, and recent research has suggested that this pool of outsiders has important implications for the nature of …