The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new
post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the …

Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has
swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform …

Across Europe, the labour market participation of persons with disabilities remains lower
than that of persons without a disability. Our research examines this disability employment …

Labour market policies are multi-dimensional: their design depends on factors such as
generosity, coverage, the combination of active and passive elements, and overall cost …

In social policy discussions about activation or ALMP (Active Labour Market Policies), most
attention is paid to supply-side approaches, directed towards jobless individuals. In these …

Exploiting retrospective data from the SHARELIFE project, we investigate long-term
associations between early and later life unemployment spells of at least six months in a …

In the past decade, active labour market policy (ALMP) has become a major topic in
comparative social policy analysis, with scholars exploiting cross-national variation to seek …

This article assesses the current variation in activation strategies directed towards able‐
bodied persons of working age relying on a minimum income guarantee in 19 EU member …

Over the past twenty years, minimum income schemes (MIS) have undergone major
transformations in their functions and role. From mainly residual instruments that aimed to …

This article aims to bring labour market activation policy into the orbit of eco-social policy,
which we can understand as sustainable welfare without growth. Activation is extensively …