Since the mid-1990s European welfare states have undergone a major transformation.
Relative to the post-war years, today they put less emphasis on income protection and more …

The paper examines the relationship between the severe economic crisis facing Greece and
the country's social protection system, arguing that this relationship is ambivalent. On one …

The current Greek crisis started off in 2009 as a fiscal crisis, soon turned into a sovereign
debt crisis, then mutated into a full-blown recession, unprecedented in depth and duration …

Explaining social policy preferences has become a major topic in comparative politics with
labor market risk as a key determinant of these preferences. However, one question …

Challenging the new political-economic “mainstream” that considers trade unions to be
“complicit” in labor market dualization, this article's analysis of union strategies in Italy and …

There is a long-standing controversy over the question of whether targeting social transfers
towards the bottom part of the income distribution actually enhances or weakens their …

This book analyzes in what way activation policies impact on given patterns of social
citizenship that predominate in national contexts. It argues that the liberal paradigm of …

The article deals with the differential domestic employment policy adaptation to the
European Employment Strategy that occurred over the past years in two European countries …

Increasingly flexible labour markets and reforms of old-age pension systems are still ranking
high on the political agenda of European countries. This volume investigates whether, and …

This article aims to empirically explore how European labour markets are segmented and
who the outsiders are. The article moves beyond the dichotomous approach to …