Comparative Social Policy

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Flexible Working and Organisational Change

Edited by Bram Peper, Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes, Laura den Dulk

The central aim of this book is to consider to what extent changes in organisations and in the nature of jobs are compatible with the need, increasingly expressed by employees, for greater integration between work and family life. The bo...

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Working Mothers in Europe

Edited by Ute Gerhard, Trudie Knijn, Anja Weckwert

Working Mothers in Europe combines comparative perspectives on social policies with analyses of mothers’ practices as evidenced in macro data and as explored in country based case studies. Social policy research has emphasised the impact...

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Economy and Morality

Yuichi Shionoya

Economy and Morality is a remarkable contribution to economic ethics exploring key philosophical issues including efficiency versus justice and liberty versus excellence. Its unique emphasis is the economics of virtue, which is concerned...

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The Dynamics of Social Exclusion in Europe

Edited by Eleni Apospori, Jane Millar

Issues of poverty and social exclusion are high on the European policy agenda. The Dynamics of Social Exclusion in Europe reports findings from a study funded by the European Commission, using data from the European Community Household P...

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The European Social Model

Nick Adnett, Stephen Hardy

This timely book explores the development of the European Social Model and questions whether the relatively high level of social protection provided, both in terms of social welfare provision and in the creation of workers’ rights and em...

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The Crisis of Innovation in Water and Wastewater

Duncan A. Thomas, Roger R. Ford

This significant new book highlights a little acknowledged but potentially catastrophic crisis of innovation in the global water sector, which institutions and industries are frighteningly ill-equipped to tackle or even accept. It sugges...

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The Economics of Social Policy

Peter G. Rosner

This unique book demonstrates how instruments of economics can be usefully employed to analyse social policy. The merits and limits of social policy programmes are discussed as answers to problems of market societies.

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Work, Family and Childcare

Joris Ghysels

Work, Family and Childcare studies the joint decisions made by parents regarding the time they allocate to paid employment and childcare. Extensive cross-national data is analysed from three countries that represent the diversity of Euro...

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The Economics of Social Security in Japan

Edited by Toshiaki Tachibanaki

This book provides a comprehensive appraisal of social security in Japan, where traditionally the burden of welfare provision has been the main responsibility of the family and employers, rather than the state. However, an ageing populat...

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Poverty and Subsidiarity in Europe

Didier Fourage

This book focuses on the effects of welfare state arrangements on the dynamics of poverty in Europe. The author contends that the EU is primarily based on economic integration and as a result social policy issues have remained secondary ...

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Social Europe

Edited by Richard Berthoud, Maria Iacovou

Social Europe analyses the diverse dynamics of the lives of people across Europe. It is the first quantitative analysis of its kind to make a systematic comparison of life chances across the fifteen countries of the EU. This wide perspec...

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