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Preventing Unemployment in Europe
Edited by Paul Klemmer, Rüdiger Wink
Preventing Unemployment in Europe is an interdisciplinary volume offering an effective and authoritative contribution to the ongoing debate concerning the utility of preventive labour market policies. Positive labour market performance ... -
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Social Environmental Research in the European Union
Michael R. Redclift, Elizabeth Shove, Barend van der Meulen, Sujatha Raman
This book explores the making of international social science, and the parts which academics, policymakers and research managers play in creating European social environmental research. The authors present and analyse a complex picture ... -
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Policy Measures for Low-Wage Employment in Europe
Edited by Wiemer Salverda, Claudio Lucifora, Brian Nolan
Policy Measures for Low-Wage Employment in Europe is a focused and up-to-date set of studies highlighting several important new findings. The book considers in-depth policy measures in the areas of taxation, benefits and employer subsid... -
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Surviving Post-communism
K. Roberts, S. C. Clark, C. Fagan, J. Tholen
How do young people survive in the era of high unemployment, persistent economic crises and poor living standards that characterise post-communist society in the former Soviet Union? This major new original book – written by leading aut... -
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The Foundations of the Welfare State
Edited by Robert E. Goodin, Deborah Mitchell
This three-volume compendium reproduces all the key texts on the welfare state – its rise and fall, its varying rationales and instrumentalities, its different forms in different periods and different places. Political history and socia... -
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Gender and Migration
Edited by Katie Willis, Brenda Yeoh
This volume demonstrates the ways in which a gender perspective has been incorporated into existing themes and methods of migration research and has also led to the development of new areas of interest. It draws together the most importa... -
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Pensions, Savings and Capital Flows
Helmut Reisen
This book explores the international aspects of pension reform, private savings and volatile capital markets and clarifies how they relate to each other. Building the case for the pension-improving benefits of global asset diversificati... -
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The Welfare State in Europe
Edited by Marco Buti, Daniele Franco, Lucio R. Pench
This book analyses the main problems in the functioning of the welfare state and possible actions for its reform. Focusing on the European Union, it looks at the achievements of and challenges to the welfare state as we enter the 21st c...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Globalization and the Welfare State
Ramesh Mishra
Globalization and the Welfare State is highly accessible and will be welcomed by students and scholars of social policy, social work, political science and sociology as well as by policymakers in international organizations and government. -
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The Formation of a Labour Market in Russia
Simon Clarke
The Russian labour market has been hailed by some economists as being ‘perfectly flexible’ because Russia has achieved enormous employment restructuring with minimal unemployment, and by others as plagued by rigidities since pay structur... -
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Education Policy
Edited by James Marshall, Michael Peters
There have been dramatic changes in education policy throughout the world in the final quarter of the 20th Century. This important volume presents an invaluable collection of previously published and specially commissioned articles whic... -
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The Sociology of Knowledge
Edited by Volker Meja, Nico Stehr
This authoritative two volume collection presents both the classic articles and the most important recent literature which are essential for an understanding of the sociology of knowledge.
