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This report is one of the outputs resulting from Workpackage 5, "Stakeholder policies and problem assessment" of the WALQING project, SSH-CT-2009-244597 (www.walqing.eu).

This paper will be published in M. Magara and S. Sacchi (eds.), The Politics of Social and Industrial Reform, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, forthcoming in 2013.