Bea Cantillon is Professor of Social Policy at the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp.Frank Vandenbroucke is Member of Parliament of the Flemish Parliament.

"[This book] makes a significant contribution to understanding the complex relationship between poverty, work and social welfare." --James Midgley, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley

• Contents ; Preface ; Introduction ; Bea Cantillon, and Frank Vandenbroucke ; 1 Mapping At-Risk-of-Poverty Rates, Household Employment and Social Spending ; Frank Vandenbroucke, and Ron Diris ; 2 The Evolution of Poverty in the European Union: Concepts, Measurement and Data ; Koen Decancq, Tim Goedeme, Karel Van den Bosch, and Josefine Vanhille ; 3 Individual Employment, Household Employment and Risk of Poverty in the EU. A Decomposition Analysis ; Vincent Corluy, and Frank Vandenbroucke ; 4 In-Work Poverty ; Ive Marx, and Brian Nolan ; 5 Social Redistribution, Poverty and the Adequacy of Social Protection in the EU ; Bea Cantillon, Natascha Van Mechelen, Olivier Pintelon, and Aaron Van den Heede ; 6 The Redistributive Capacity of Services in the EU ; Gerlinde Verbist, and Manos Matsaganis ; 7 Who Benefits from Investment Policies? The Case of Family Activation in European Countries ; Wim Van Lancker, and Joris Ghysels ; 8 The Reform Capacities of European welfare states ; Anton Hemerijck ; 9 Identifying the skeleton of the social investment state: defining and measuring patterns of social policy change on the basis of expenditure data ; Johan De Deken ; 10 Beyond Social Investment. Which Concepts and Values for Social Policy-Making in Europe? ; Bea Cantillon ; Epilogue. What we know, don't know and need to know ; Frank Vandenbroucke, and Bea Cantillon ; Appendix. The Evolution of Public Social Spending 1985-2009 ; Leen Meeusen and Annemie Nys ; References ; Index

Bea Cantillon is Professor of Social Policy at the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp.Frank Vandenbroucke is Member of Parliament of the Flemish Parliament.

"[This book] makes a significant contribution to understanding the complex relationship between poverty, work and social welfare." --James Midgley, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley

• Contents ; Preface ; Introduction ; Bea Cantillon, and Frank Vandenbroucke ; 1 Mapping At-Risk-of-Poverty Rates, Household Employment and Social Spending ; Frank Vandenbroucke, and Ron Diris ; 2 The Evolution of Poverty in the European Union: Concepts, Measurement and Data ; Koen Decancq, Tim Goedeme, Karel Van den Bosch, and Josefine Vanhille ; 3 Individual Employment, Household Employment and Risk of Poverty in the EU. A Decomposition Analysis ; Vincent Corluy, and Frank Vandenbroucke ; 4 In-Work Poverty ; Ive Marx, and Brian Nolan ; 5 Social Redistribution, Poverty and the Adequacy of Social Protection in the EU ; Bea Cantillon, Natascha Van Mechelen, Olivier Pintelon, and Aaron Van den Heede ; 6 The Redistributive Capacity of Services in the EU ; Gerlinde Verbist, and Manos Matsaganis ; 7 Who Benefits from Investment Policies? The Case of Family Activation in European Countries ; Wim Van Lancker, and Joris Ghysels ; 8 The Reform Capacities of European welfare states ; Anton Hemerijck ; 9 Identifying the skeleton of the social investment state: defining and measuring patterns of social policy change on the basis of expenditure data ; Johan De Deken ; 10 Beyond Social Investment. Which Concepts and Values for Social Policy-Making in Europe? ; Bea Cantillon ; Epilogue. What we know, don't know and need to know ; Frank Vandenbroucke, and Bea Cantillon ; Appendix. The Evolution of Public Social Spending 1985-2009 ; Leen Meeusen and Annemie Nys ; References ; Index

Bea Cantillon is Professor of Social Policy at the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp.Frank Vandenbroucke is Member of Parliament of the Flemish Parliament.

"[This book] makes a significant contribution to understanding the complex relationship between poverty, work and social welfare." --James Midgley, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley

• Contents ; Preface ; Introduction ; Bea Cantillon, and Frank Vandenbroucke ; 1 Mapping At-Risk-of-Poverty Rates, Household Employment and Social Spending ; Frank Vandenbroucke, and Ron Diris ; 2 The Evolution of Poverty in the European Union: Concepts, Measurement and Data ; Koen Decancq, Tim Goedeme, Karel Van den Bosch, and Josefine Vanhille ; 3 Individual Employment, Household Employment and Risk of Poverty in the EU. A Decomposition Analysis ; Vincent Corluy, and Frank Vandenbroucke ; 4 In-Work Poverty ; Ive Marx, and Brian Nolan ; 5 Social Redistribution, Poverty and the Adequacy of Social Protection in the EU ; Bea Cantillon, Natascha Van Mechelen, Olivier Pintelon, and Aaron Van den Heede ; 6 The Redistributive Capacity of Services in the EU ; Gerlinde Verbist, and Manos Matsaganis ; 7 Who Benefits from Investment Policies? The Case of Family Activation in European Countries ; Wim Van Lancker, and Joris Ghysels ; 8 The Reform Capacities of European welfare states ; Anton Hemerijck ; 9 Identifying the skeleton of the social investment state: defining and measuring patterns of social policy change on the basis of expenditure data ; Johan De Deken ; 10 Beyond Social Investment. Which Concepts and Values for Social Policy-Making in Europe? ; Bea Cantillon ; Epilogue. What we know, don't know and need to know ; Frank Vandenbroucke, and Bea Cantillon ; Appendix. The Evolution of Public Social Spending 1985-2009 ; Leen Meeusen and Annemie Nys ; References ; Index