Comparative Social Policy
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Moving People and Knowledge
Louise Ackers, Bryony Gill
Moving People and Knowledge provides a fresh examination of the processes of highly skilled science migration. Focusing on intra-European mobility and, in particular, on the new dynamics of East–West migration, the authors investigate th...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Social Policy, Employment and Family Change in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Jonathan Bradshaw, Aksel Hatland
This book is a comparative study of family change, parental employment and social policy in the five Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. In all these countries family forms have been profoundly affected by ...eBook:Find out more£32.76
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Young Workers, Globalization and the Labor Market
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfield, Sandra Buchholz, Erzsébet Bukodi, Karin Kurz
Underpinned by the fact that the globalization process and the subsequent increased level of market uncertainty have paved the way for employment flexibility in modern societies, this book examines the labor market chances of young adult...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Flexibility and Employment Security in Europe
Edited by Ruud Muffels
This book seeks to gain a better understanding of the paradoxical relationship between the alleged need of European labour markets to become more flexible and the way in which national policies pursue this aim without jeopardising existi...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Families, Ageing and Social Policy
Edited by Chiara Saraceno
This important book offers valuable insights into the way in which social policies and welfare state arrangements interact with family and gender models. It presents the most up-to-date research in the field, based on a variety of nation...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Nordic Social Attitudes in a European Perspective
Edited by Heikki Ervasti, Torben Fridberg, Mikael Hjerm, Kristen Ringdal
Providing highly rigorous and up-to-date data, with a wide coverage of topics, this book will be of great interest to academics and students in sociology, social policy and political science. It will also appeal to anyone interested in t...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Working Poor in Europe
Edited by Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Henning Lohmann
For a long time in-work poverty was not associated with European welfare states. Recently, the topic has gained relevance as welfare state retrenchment and international competition in globalized economies has put increasing pressures on...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Investigating Welfare State Change
Edited by Jochen Clasen, Nico A. Siegel
With contributions from leading international scholars, this important book presents a comprehensive examination of conventional indicators (such as social spending), available alternatives (including social rights and conditionality), a...eBook:Find out more£39.16
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Civil Society and Governance in Europe
Edited by William A. Maloney, Jan W. van Deth
The contributors to this new book analyse the opportunities for civil society associations to contribute to European integration and decision-making from various perspectives. The research demonstrates that the Europeanization process – ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Children, Changing Families and Welfare States
Edited by Jane Lewis
The book explores the implications of changes to the welfare state for children in a range of countries. Children, Changing Families and Welfare States: examines the implications of social policies for children; sets the discussion in ...eBook:Find out more£32.76
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Culture and Welfare State
Edited by Wim van Oorschot, Michael Opielka, Birgit Pfau-Effinger
Culture and Welfare State provides comparative studies on the interplay between cultural factors and welfare policies. Starting with an analysis of the historical and cultural foundations of Western European welfare states, reflected in ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Welfare States: Construction, Deconstruction, Reconstruction
Edited by Stephan Leibfried, Steffen Mau
In this three-volume collection Leibfried and Mau have gathered together the most vital articles about the welfare state and its ‘reformation’ written since the mid-1970s. Their choices and organizing principles bring coherence and addit...
