Europe's new state of welfare : : Unemployment, employment policies and citizenship /

Europe's new state of welfare : : Unemployment, employment policies and citizenship / / ed. by Jørgen Goul Andersen, Jochen Clasen, Knut Wim van OorschotHalvorsen.

It is often argued that European welfare states, with regulated labour markets, relatively generous social protection and relatively high wage equality, have become counter-productive in a globalised and knowledge-intensive economy. Using in-depth, comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of emplo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
MitwirkendeR:
Andersen, Jørgen Goul,
Bouget, Denis,
Clasen, Jochen,
Ervasti, Heikki,
Furåker, Bengt,
Halvorsen, Knut,
Ignjatovic, Miroljub,
Jensen, Jan Bendix,
Kopac, Anja,
Ludwig-Mayerhofer, Wolfgang,
Sheldon, George,
Svetlik, Ivan,
Trbanc, Martina,
Ughetto, Pascal,
van Oorschot, Wim,
HerausgeberIn:
Clasen, Jochen,
Goul Andersen, Jørgen,
Wim van OorschotHalvorsen, Knut,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (308 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Notes on contributors
  • Glossary
  • Preface
  • Changing labour markets, unemployment and unemployment policies in a citizenship perspective
  • Employment and unemployment in Europe: overview and new trends
  • Unemployment and unemployment policy in the UK: increasing employability and redefining citizenship
  • To be or not to be employed? Unemployment in a ‘work society’
  • France: the impossible new social compromise?
  • Labour market participation in the Netherlands: trends, policies and outcomes
  • Is high unemployment due to welfare state protection? Lessons from the Swedish experience
  • Denmark: from the edge of the abyss to a sustainable welfare state
  • Unemployment and (un)employment policies in Norway: the case of an affluent but oil-dependent economy: the paradox of plenty?
  • Unemployment and unemployment policy in Finland
  • Slovenia’s navigation through a turbulent transition
  • Unemployment and unemployment policy in Switzerland
  • Work, welfare and citizenship: diversity and variation within European (un)employment policy
  • References
  • Index

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