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 …

Abstract In Southern Europe, welfare state building followed a distinct path, characterized by
'weak Fordism'in labour markets, a dualistic social insurance, and a faulty and fragmented …

The Great Recession has had a deep impact on employment levels and on income
inequality in the Southern European countries (Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy). It has …

We consider the impact of the two recent economic crises, one that resulted from the great
recession of 2007–2009 and one following the COVID-19 pandemic, on income inequality …

Solidarity and citizenship are intertwined in a very complex manner, where the former
usually operates as the “social glue” for the latter, holding together its formal components …

Generally speaking, informal economy refers to undeclared economic activity that is not
recorded in the formal national economic ledgers. Also known as black, unofficial, hidden …

This article addresses overnight guest hosting, which is a widespread solidarity practice
among rural-to-urban migrants in Turkey. The fieldwork, based on in-depth interviews with …

This study examines the spatial distribution of poverty in Turkish states using zonal statistics
techniques. The recently released Global Gridded Relative Deprivation Index (GRDIv1) …

Yet they are also a generation which are technologically proficient, have more opportunities
for post-compulsory education and are reflexively deciding what they want to do with their …

The core topic of this paper lays the emphasis on the links between poverty and
employment. It aims at providing complementary measures of monetary poverty for people …