Knowing the socio-structural profile and distributive preferences of high-skilled outsiders is crucial to understand the political consequences of the increasingly unequal distribution of employment risks. Our findings indeed point to an increasing potential for large pro-welfare alliances between higher and lower skilled vulnerable individuals in support of redistributive and activating social policy. Acknowledging the social policy preferences of the high-skilled yet vulnerable parts of post-industrial societies is particularly important, since these high-skilled out- siders—unlike lower skilled outsiders—are likely to be a politically informed and active group (Häusermann and Schwander, 2012), receptive to political mobilization. Our findings thus have far-reaching implications for our understanding of both the politicization of insider/outsider divides and the politics of welfare support.