Collective Skill Formation in the Knowledge Economy

The book argues that collective skill formation systems remain attractive for firms and governments. However, continuous and profound adjustments will be needed if they are to fulfil their objectives in terms of equity and efficiency.

Giuliano Bonoli, Professor of social policy, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, University of Lausanne,Patrick Emmenegger, Professor of comparative political economy and public policy, School of Economics and Political Science, University of St Gallen

Giuliano Bonoli is Professor of social policy at the Swiss graduate school for public administration at the University of Lausanne. He received his PhD at the University of Kent at Canterbury for a study on pension reform in Europe. He has been involved in several national and international research projects on various aspects of social policy. His work has focused on pension reform, labour markets and family polices. He has published some thirty articles in journals such as Politics & Society, Journal of European Public Policy, European Sociological Review, Comparative Politics, Comparative political studies. With Oxford University Press, he has published The Politics of the New Welfare State (2012, with David Natali) and The Origins of Active Social Policy: Active Labour Market Policy and Childcare in a Comparative Perspective (2013).


Patrick Emmenegger is Professor of comparative political economy and public policy at the University of St Gallen's School of Economics and Political Science. He is interested in the reform of coordinated models of capitalism, business-government relations, processes of state-building and democratization as well as theories of institutional stability and change. He has published some sixty articles in academic journals such as Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Politics, New Political Economy, Regulation & Governance, and Socio-Economic Review. With Oxford University Press, he has published The Age of Dualization: The Changing Face of Inequality in Deindustrializing Societies (2012, with Silja Häusermann, Bruno Palier and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser) and The Power to Dismiss: Trade Unions and the Regulation of Job Security in Western Europe (2014).