Europe's New State of Welfare: Unemployment, Employment Policies and Citizenship

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Unemployment, Employment Policies and Citizenship

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Edited by Jørgen Goul Andersen, Jochen Clasen, Wim van Oorschot, Knut Halvorsen

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: January 2022
Print publication year:: 2002
Online ISBN:: 9781847425614
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781847425614

Subjects:: Employment Law, Law

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It is often argued that the regulated labour markets, relatively generous social protection and relative wage equality of European welfare states has become counter-productive in a globalised and knowledge-intensive economy. Using in-depth analysis of employment, welfare and citizenship in a range of European states, this book challenges this view.

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Europe's New State of Welfare

Unemployment, Employment Policies and Citizenship

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iii

Notes on contributors
pp iv-vi

Glossary
pp vii-ix

Preface
pp x-x

one - Changing labour markets, unemployment and unemployment policies in a citizenship perspective
pp 1-20

two - Employment and unemployment in Europe: overview and new trends
pp 21-58

three - Unemployment and unemployment policy in the UK: increasing employability and redefining citizenship
pp 59-74

four - To be or not to be employed? Unemployment in a ‘work society’
pp 75-90

five - France: the impossible new social compromise?
pp 91-106

six - Labour market participation in the Netherlands: trends, policies and outcomes
pp 107-122

seven - Is high unemployment due to welfare state protection? Lessons from the Swedish experience
pp 123-142

eight - Denmark: from the edge of the abyss to a sustainable welfare state
pp 143-162

nine - Unemployment and (un)employment policies in Norway: the case of an affluent but oil-dependent economy: the paradox of plenty?
pp 163-180

ten - Unemployment and unemployment policy in Finland
pp 181-194

eleven - Slovenia’s navigation through a turbulent transition
pp 195-216

twelve - Unemployment and unemployment policy in Switzerland
pp 217-232

thirteen - Work, welfare and citizenship: diversity and variation within European (un)employment policy
pp 233-246

References
pp 247-284

Index
pp 285-297

Also available from The Policy Press
pp 298-298

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