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Expanding Welfare in an Age of Austerity
Increasing Protection in an Unprotected World
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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In recent decades, and particularly since the financial crisis, continental Europe has seen an increasing gap between those workers who have well-protected, good-paying jobs with strong benefits and those who work lower-quality, nonstandard jobs, or who have no regular work at all. This situation …
Government Ideology, Economic Pressure, and Risk Privatization
How Economic Worldviews Shape Social Policy Choices in Times of Crisis
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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From the 1980s on, a privatization of labor market-related risks has occurred in the OECD. Governments have cut the generosity of social programs and tightened eligibility rules, particularly for the unemployed. Government Ideology, Economic Pressure, and Risk Privatization: How Economic Worldviews …
Late-career Risks in Changing Welfare States
Comparing Germany and the United States since the 1980s
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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Motivated by ongoing debates over welfare state retrenchment and growing economic insecurity, this book compares the situation of older workers in Germany and the United States over the past three decades. Both nations are seeing a rise in insecurity for older workers, but the differences in …
Migrant Penalties in Educational Achievement
Second-generation Immigrants in Western Europe
Häftad, 2025
686 kr
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The integration of second-generation immigrants has proved to be a major challenge for Europe in recent years. Though these people are born in their host nations, they often experience worse social and economic outcomes than other citizens. This volume focuses on one particular, important …
Impact of Losing Your Job
Unemployment and Influences from Market, Family, and State on Economic Well-Being in the US and Germany
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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Losing a job has always been understood as one of the most important causes of downward social mobility in modern societies. And it's only gotten worse in recent years, as the weakening position of workers has made re-entering the labour market even tougher. The Impact of Losing Your Job builds on …
Employment 'Miracles'
A Critical Comparison of the Dutch, Scandinavian, Swiss, Australian and Irish Cases versus Germany and the US
Av Uwe Becker, Herman Schwartz
Häftad, 2005
764 kr
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A critical scrutiny of the ‘miracle economies’ of the 1990s, analysing the role of the relatively small size of the national economies in question, and of accidental external circumstances which contributed to favourable developments.
Wage Setting, Social Pacts and the Euro
A New Role for the State
Av Anke Hassel
Häftad, 2006
1055 kr
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Globalization, financial liberalization and neo-liberal economic policy thinking have been seen as contributors to the demise of social partnership in Western Europe. Recent examples of the re-emergence of social pacts have challenged these assumptions. The book offers a theoretical understanding …
New Social Question?
On Minimum Income Protection in the Postindustrial Era
Av Ive Marx
Häftad, 2006
787 kr
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Advanced welfare states are said to be facing, in the words of Pierre Rosanvallon, a "New Social Question". The idea here, and it is a widely shared one, is that the transition from an industrial to a postindustrial environment has brought with it a whole new set of social risks, constraints and …
Long Goodbye to Bismarck?
The Politics of Welfare Reform in Continental Europe
Häftad, 2010
1171 kr
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This book provides an extensive and comparative account of all welfare reforms that occurred during the last three decades in Continental European countries. It reveals unexpected important structural reforms, to be understood as the culmination of a long reform trajectory, analyzed in detail with …
Social Concertation in Times of Austerity
European Integration and the Politics of Labour Market Reforms in Austria and Switzerland
Häftad, 2013
764 kr
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Why do governments still negotiate with trade unions and employers in the design of labour market and welfare reforms despite the steady decline of trade union membership almost everywhere in Europe? Social Concertation in Times of Austerity investigates the political underpinnings of social …
Electoral Consequences of Third Way Welfare State Reforms
Social Democracy’s Transformation and its Political Costs
Häftad, 2013
764 kr
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This book provides a comparative study of the electoral consequences of Third Way welfare state reforms, demonstrating that Third Way reforms went against the social policy preferences of social democracy's core voters and indeed produced an electoral setback for social democrats at the ballots.
Late-career Risks in Changing Welfare States
Comparing Germany and the United States since the 1980s
Inbunden, 2015
2132 kr
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The risks in the later stages of careers comparing the welfare states of Germany and the United States since the 1980s.
Impact of Losing Your Job
Unemployment and Influences from Market, Family, and State on Economic Well-Being in the US and Germany
Inbunden, 2016
2132 kr
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The Impact of Losing Your Job builds on findings from life course sociology to show clearly just what effects job loss has on income, family life, and future prospects.
Government Ideology, Economic Pressure, and Risk Privatization
How Economic Worldviews Shape Social Policy Choices in Times of Crisis
Inbunden, 2017
2195 kr
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This book analyses labour market changes in eighteen countries and shows that the most important factor in explaining whether cuts are made is the economic world view of a particular government rather than actual economic pressures.
Expanding Welfare in an Age of Austerity
Increasing Protection in an Unprotected World
Inbunden, 2017
2132 kr
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This book asks why different nations have taken different tacks in handling-or not handling-the increasing gap between the regularly employed and those who have nonstandard, irregular work or are unemployed.
Migrant Penalties in Educational Achievement
Second-generation Immigrants in Western Europe
Inbunden, 2017
2132 kr
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This volume focuses on the portant challenge of the less successful educational outcomes of second-generation migrants.
