Reconciling work and poverty reduction :: how successful are European welfare states? /

Disappointing poverty trends suggest limitations to employment-centred welfare reform and downward pressures on the redistributive capacity of welfare states. Innovative empirical analyses of the links between poverty, labour market participation and social redistribution are presented. The observat...

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Körperschaft: Oxford University Press
Weitere Verfasser: Cantillon, Bea (HerausgeberIn), Vandenbroucke, Frank, 1955- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Oxford University Press, in collaboration with the Center for International Policy Exchanges, University of Maryland, 2014.
Schriftenreihe:International policy exchange series.
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Zusammenfassung:Disappointing poverty trends suggest limitations to employment-centred welfare reform and downward pressures on the redistributive capacity of welfare states. Innovative empirical analyses of the links between poverty, labour market participation and social redistribution are presented. The observations are linked with a broader perspective on the socio-economic, demographic and paradigmatic evolutions in contemporary welfare states.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxii, 432 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199369720
0199369720