Bea Cantillon, PhD, is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp in Belgium.Tim Goedemé, PhD, is a Research Coordinator at the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp in Belgium and Senior Research Officer at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.John Hills, DLitt, MSocSc, is Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom.

Poverty might be even more widespread-and differently distributed across countries and household types within the EU-than what appears by the usual 'at risk of poverty' indicator. Exploring different methodological approaches, this book presents a complex view of what happened where before and during the Great Recession, as well as the differential ability of individual countries to protect the poor through their policy choices. The lessons these analyses teach at the substantive and methodological level offer crucial suggestions on how progress might be achieved at the national and EU level in granting a decent income to both workers' and jobless people's households.

• Foreword: A Self-Critical Flashback on the European Union's Anti-Poverty PromiseFrank Vandenbroucke PrefaceBea Cantillon, Tim Goedemé, and John Hills IntroductionBea Cantillon, Tim Goedemé, and John Hills Part 1: Income Poverty in Europe: Setting the Scene Chapter 1: What Does It Mean to Live on the Poverty Threshold? Lessons From Reference BudgetsTim Goedemé, Tess Penne, Tine Hufkens, Alexandros Karakitsios, Anikó Bernát, Anne Franziskus, Bori Simonovits, Elena Carillo Alvarez, Eleni Kanavitsa, Irene Cussó Parcerisas, Jordi Riera Romaní, Lauri Mäkinen, Manos Matsaganis, Marco Arlotti, Marianna Kopasz, Péter Szivós, Veli-Matti Ritakallio, Yuri Kazepov, Karel Van den Bosch, and Bérénice Storms Chapter 2: Employment and Poverty Dynamics Before, During, and After the CrisisAndrás Gábos, Réka Branyiczki, Barbara Binder, and István György Tóth Chapter 3: A Pan-European Perspective on Low-Income Dynamics in the European UnionTim Goedemé, Lorena Zardo Trindade, and Frank Vandenbroucke Part 2: The Role of Social Protection Chapter 4: The Impact of Social Transfers on Income Poverty and Material DeprivationGeranda Notten and Anne-Catherine Guio Chapter 5: Policy and Poverty in Seven European Union Countries in the Lisbon Decade: The Contribution of Tax-Benefit Policy ChangesJohn Hills, Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Tasseva Chapter 6: Distributive Effects of the Crisis in the European PeripheryManos Matsaganis and Chrysa Leventi Chapter 7: Do Employment-Conditional Earnings Subsidies Work?Lane Kenworthy Part 3: New Policy Paradigms: What Can Be Expected? Chapter 8: Improving Poverty Reduction: Lessons From the Social Innovation PerspectiveStijn Oosterlynck, Andreas Novy, Yuri Kazepov, Pieter Cools, Tatiana Saruis, Bernhard Leubolt, and Florian Wukovitsch Chapter 9: Social Investment at Crossroads: "The Third Way" or "The Enlightened Path" Forward?Axel Cronert and Joakim Palme Part 4: Toward a Decent Social Floor for All Europeans Chapter 10: The End of Cheap Talk About Poverty Reduction: The Cost of Closing the Poverty Gap While Maintaining Work IncentivesDiego Collado, Bea Cantillon, Karel Van den Bosch, Tim Goedemé, and Dieter Vandelannoote Chapter 11: The Design of In-Work Benefits: How to Boost Employment and Combat Poverty in Belgium?Dieter Vandelannoote and Gerlinde Verbist Chapter 12: Toward Adequate Minimum Incomes: Which Role for Europe?Bea Cantillon, Sarah Marchal, and Chris Luigjes Chapter 13: Conclusion: How to Get There?Bea Cantillon, Tim Goedemé, and John Hills

Bea Cantillon, PhD, is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp in Belgium.Tim Goedemé, PhD, is a Research Coordinator at the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp in Belgium and Senior Research Officer at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.John Hills, DLitt, MSocSc, is Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom.

Poverty might be even more widespread-and differently distributed across countries and household types within the EU-than what appears by the usual 'at risk of poverty' indicator. Exploring different methodological approaches, this book presents a complex view of what happened where before and during the Great Recession, as well as the differential ability of individual countries to protect the poor through their policy choices. The lessons these analyses teach at the substantive and methodological level offer crucial suggestions on how progress might be achieved at the national and EU level in granting a decent income to both workers' and jobless people's households.

• Foreword: A Self-Critical Flashback on the European Union's Anti-Poverty PromiseFrank Vandenbroucke PrefaceBea Cantillon, Tim Goedemé, and John Hills IntroductionBea Cantillon, Tim Goedemé, and John Hills Part 1: Income Poverty in Europe: Setting the Scene Chapter 1: What Does It Mean to Live on the Poverty Threshold? Lessons From Reference BudgetsTim Goedemé, Tess Penne, Tine Hufkens, Alexandros Karakitsios, Anikó Bernát, Anne Franziskus, Bori Simonovits, Elena Carillo Alvarez, Eleni Kanavitsa, Irene Cussó Parcerisas, Jordi Riera Romaní, Lauri Mäkinen, Manos Matsaganis, Marco Arlotti, Marianna Kopasz, Péter Szivós, Veli-Matti Ritakallio, Yuri Kazepov, Karel Van den Bosch, and Bérénice Storms Chapter 2: Employment and Poverty Dynamics Before, During, and After the CrisisAndrás Gábos, Réka Branyiczki, Barbara Binder, and István György Tóth Chapter 3: A Pan-European Perspective on Low-Income Dynamics in the European UnionTim Goedemé, Lorena Zardo Trindade, and Frank Vandenbroucke Part 2: The Role of Social Protection Chapter 4: The Impact of Social Transfers on Income Poverty and Material DeprivationGeranda Notten and Anne-Catherine Guio Chapter 5: Policy and Poverty in Seven European Union Countries in the Lisbon Decade: The Contribution of Tax-Benefit Policy ChangesJohn Hills, Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Tasseva Chapter 6: Distributive Effects of the Crisis in the European PeripheryManos Matsaganis and Chrysa Leventi Chapter 7: Do Employment-Conditional Earnings Subsidies Work?Lane Kenworthy Part 3: New Policy Paradigms: What Can Be Expected? Chapter 8: Improving Poverty Reduction: Lessons From the Social Innovation PerspectiveStijn Oosterlynck, Andreas Novy, Yuri Kazepov, Pieter Cools, Tatiana Saruis, Bernhard Leubolt, and Florian Wukovitsch Chapter 9: Social Investment at Crossroads: "The Third Way" or "The Enlightened Path" Forward?Axel Cronert and Joakim Palme Part 4: Toward a Decent Social Floor for All Europeans Chapter 10: The End of Cheap Talk About Poverty Reduction: The Cost of Closing the Poverty Gap While Maintaining Work IncentivesDiego Collado, Bea Cantillon, Karel Van den Bosch, Tim Goedemé, and Dieter Vandelannoote Chapter 11: The Design of In-Work Benefits: How to Boost Employment and Combat Poverty in Belgium?Dieter Vandelannoote and Gerlinde Verbist Chapter 12: Toward Adequate Minimum Incomes: Which Role for Europe?Bea Cantillon, Sarah Marchal, and Chris Luigjes Chapter 13: Conclusion: How to Get There?Bea Cantillon, Tim Goedemé, and John Hills

Bea Cantillon, PhD, is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp in Belgium.Tim Goedemé, PhD, is a Research Coordinator at the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp in Belgium and Senior Research Officer at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.John Hills, DLitt, MSocSc, is Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom.

Poverty might be even more widespread-and differently distributed across countries and household types within the EU-than what appears by the usual 'at risk of poverty' indicator. Exploring different methodological approaches, this book presents a complex view of what happened where before and during the Great Recession, as well as the differential ability of individual countries to protect the poor through their policy choices. The lessons these analyses teach at the substantive and methodological level offer crucial suggestions on how progress might be achieved at the national and EU level in granting a decent income to both workers' and jobless people's households.

• Foreword: A Self-Critical Flashback on the European Union's Anti-Poverty PromiseFrank Vandenbroucke PrefaceBea Cantillon, Tim Goedemé, and John Hills IntroductionBea Cantillon, Tim Goedemé, and John Hills Part 1: Income Poverty in Europe: Setting the Scene Chapter 1: What Does It Mean to Live on the Poverty Threshold? Lessons From Reference BudgetsTim Goedemé, Tess Penne, Tine Hufkens, Alexandros Karakitsios, Anikó Bernát, Anne Franziskus, Bori Simonovits, Elena Carillo Alvarez, Eleni Kanavitsa, Irene Cussó Parcerisas, Jordi Riera Romaní, Lauri Mäkinen, Manos Matsaganis, Marco Arlotti, Marianna Kopasz, Péter Szivós, Veli-Matti Ritakallio, Yuri Kazepov, Karel Van den Bosch, and Bérénice Storms Chapter 2: Employment and Poverty Dynamics Before, During, and After the CrisisAndrás Gábos, Réka Branyiczki, Barbara Binder, and István György Tóth Chapter 3: A Pan-European Perspective on Low-Income Dynamics in the European UnionTim Goedemé, Lorena Zardo Trindade, and Frank Vandenbroucke Part 2: The Role of Social Protection Chapter 4: The Impact of Social Transfers on Income Poverty and Material DeprivationGeranda Notten and Anne-Catherine Guio Chapter 5: Policy and Poverty in Seven European Union Countries in the Lisbon Decade: The Contribution of Tax-Benefit Policy ChangesJohn Hills, Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Tasseva Chapter 6: Distributive Effects of the Crisis in the European PeripheryManos Matsaganis and Chrysa Leventi Chapter 7: Do Employment-Conditional Earnings Subsidies Work?Lane Kenworthy Part 3: New Policy Paradigms: What Can Be Expected? Chapter 8: Improving Poverty Reduction: Lessons From the Social Innovation PerspectiveStijn Oosterlynck, Andreas Novy, Yuri Kazepov, Pieter Cools, Tatiana Saruis, Bernhard Leubolt, and Florian Wukovitsch Chapter 9: Social Investment at Crossroads: "The Third Way" or "The Enlightened Path" Forward?Axel Cronert and Joakim Palme Part 4: Toward a Decent Social Floor for All Europeans Chapter 10: The End of Cheap Talk About Poverty Reduction: The Cost of Closing the Poverty Gap While Maintaining Work IncentivesDiego Collado, Bea Cantillon, Karel Van den Bosch, Tim Goedemé, and Dieter Vandelannoote Chapter 11: The Design of In-Work Benefits: How to Boost Employment and Combat Poverty in Belgium?Dieter Vandelannoote and Gerlinde Verbist Chapter 12: Toward Adequate Minimum Incomes: Which Role for Europe?Bea Cantillon, Sarah Marchal, and Chris Luigjes Chapter 13: Conclusion: How to Get There?Bea Cantillon, Tim Goedemé, and John Hills