Social indicators are an important tool for evaluating a country's level of social development
and for assessing the impact of policy. Such indicators are already in use in investigating …

As a result of the flexibilisation of labour and the trend towards the 'activating welfare state',
social policies show an increasing interconnection of work and welfare issues. The …

This article seeks to evaluate how well the different welfare states of Europe perform in terms
of preventing recurrent and persistent income poverty and what household and individual …

In social policy debates, there are fundamentally different views of links between such key
variables as employment, low pay, social transfers and poverty. This paper reviews basic …

This Report is an independent document written at the request of the Luxembourg
Government, in the context of the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European …

In this article employment quality in the EU27 is investigated by means of a typological
approach, based on several features of the employment conditions and relations …

Prior to the emergence of the modern welfare state, agencies taking care of the poor
sometimes drew up 'rules of relief'. A Dutch written code dating from 1817 is exemplary in …

In many countries, governments pursue a policy of offering persons with disabilities greater
opportunities for participation in society, based on the assumption that this will also improve …

This is the first book to summarise the twentieth century economic history of the Netherlands
from a business history perspective. It has a broad historical coverage of Dutch business …

Verval van waarden en normen wordt dikwijls aangewezen als oorzaak van allerlei soorten
ongewenst gedrag-van algemeen gebrek aan beleefdheid tot geweld in de trein. Maar wat …