Publications
I have written over 500 papers, articles, books and book chapters.
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My most recent book is ‘The Labour Market Myth’ (Edward Elgar, 2024).
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Read the review of Francis Kuriakose in ILR Review
“The Labour Market Myth is required reading for anyone who grapples with contemporary and future issues of work and employment.”
Read the review of Jeffrey J. Sallaz in Social Forces
“The Labour Market Myth will be of great interest to economic sociologists, labor scholars, and anyone interested in public policy. It is a mixture of thoughtful discussion, clear reasoning, and convincing use of data. De Beer’s impassioned call to imagine the world of work as a web of meaningful relationships, rather than an impersonal market, is timely and persuasive.”
Below you find a selection of my most recent and some older publications in English.
de Beer, P. (2024). Labour Market Policy and Industrial Relations in the Netherlands. In S. de Lange, T. Louwerse, P. 't Hart, & C. van Ham (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics (pp. 647-663). Oxford University Press. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=4028506&site=ehost-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_647
de Beer, P. (2024). Labour migration as a solution to an ageing population? European View, 23(1), 47-54. https://doi.org/10.1177/17816858241240595
de Beer, P. T. & Berntsen, L. E., (2023). Trade unions in The Netherlands: Erosion of their power base in the stable Polder Model. Trade unions in the European Union: Picking up the pieces of the neoliberal challenge. Waddington, J., Müller, T. & Vandaele, K. (eds.). Lausanne etc.: Peter Lang, p. 799-832
Been, W., & de Beer, P. (2022). Combatting exploitation of migrant temporary agency workers through sectoral self-regulation in the UK and the Netherlands. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 28(2), 175-191.
de Beer, P. T., & Keune, M. J. (2018). Dutch unions in a time of crisis. In S. Lehndorff, H. Dribbusch, & T. Schulten (Eds.), Rough waters: European trade unions in a time of crisis (2 ed., pp. 235-258). ETUI.
de Beer, P., & Koster, F. (Eds.) (2017). Ethnic Diversity and Solidarity: A Study of their Complex Relationship. Cambridge Scholars Publishers.
Kranendonk, M., & de Beer, P. (2016). What explains the union membership gap between migrants and natives? British Journal of Industrial Relations, 54(4), 846-869. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12192
Willemse, N., & de Beer, P. (2012). Three worlds of educational welfare states? A comparative study of higher education systems across welfare states. Journal of European Social Policy, 22(2), 105-117.
de Beer, P. (2012). Earnings and income inequality in the EU during the crisis. International Labour Review,151(4), 313-331.
de Beer, P., & Schils, T. (Eds.) (2009). The labour market triangle: employment protection, unemployment compensation and activation in Europe. (Globalization and welfare). Edward Elgar.
de Beer, P., & Koster, F. (2009). Sticking together or falling apart? Solidarity in an era of individualization and globalization. (Solidarity and identity). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789089641281
de Beer, P. T. (2007). Why work is not a panacea: a decomposition analysis of EU-15 countries. Journal of European Social Policy, 17(4), 375-388. https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928707081073
de Beer, P. T. (2007). How Individualized are the Dutch? Current sociology, 55, 389-413.
