Future of the Welfare State

Bent Greve received a M.A. in Economics at Copenhagen University in 1977, a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Roskilde in 1992, and a Dr. Scientific Administration in public administration in 2002. He is a Professor in Welfare State Analysis and is Head of the Department of Social Sciences and Director of the Jean Monnet European Center of Excellences both at the University of Roskilde, Denmark. He is an expert on the analysis of the welfare state and its development, mainly in a comparative European perspective. His research on the welfare state covers areas such as social security, the labour market, financing, and tax expenditures. He has been the Danish expert to several European Union Commission studies on financing and its implications, labor market policies, tele-working, and free movement of workers. He has done evaluation of welfare state policies and initiatives in core areas of the welfare state. He is also actively involved in and coordinates several programs on European Social Policy Analysis. Among other things, he is a deputy member of the board of the European Institute of Social Security and member and Vice Chair of the Danish Central Board of Taxation.

'This book serves a particularly useful purpose by questioning the conventional views on the future of the welfare states, especially in Europe, and by introducing new perspectives gleaned from economics, political science and sociology.' Claude Gnos, University of Burgundy, France

• List of Tables List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction: The Social, Political and Economic Future of the EuropeanWelfare States Bent GreveIntroduction Globalisation and its Impact on Welfare States The Ageing of Societies Distributional Issues Short Overview of the Chapters Conclusion Part 1 European Welfare Perspective A Tale of Two Pensions Reforms: A Sraffian View Is there a Demographic Time-bomb? A Market Imitating Employment Subsidy Pauperising Cities? Towards a Regional Framework forEU Poverty Statistics Part 2 Global Perspectives Welfare State and Uncertainty – Two Different Views Inequality and Unemployment: Reflections on Theory and on Europe International Finance for Development and the New TransnationalDimension of Welfare in Poor Countries From Globalisation to World Welfare: Established and Emerging Global Actors Bibliography Index