Labour Market Policies in the Era of Pervasive Austerity
A European Perspective
Edited by Sotiria Theodoropoulou
Published
Feb 28, 2018Page count
400 pagesISBN
978-1447335863Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Feb 28, 2018Page count
400 pagesISBN
978-1447335887Imprint
Policy PressPublished
Feb 28, 2018Page count
400 pagesISBN
978-1447335894Imprint
Policy Press
Labour Market Policies in the Era of Pervasive Austerity
This book investigates the changing patterns of labour market and unemployment policies in EU member states during the period since fiscal austerity took hold in 2010 during the deepest postwar recession in Europe.
Looking at the big European picture, do we see a convergence or a divergence in labour market and unemployment policy trends and outputs? Has labour market insecurity increased or decreased and can these changes be associated with the observed changes in labour market policies and macroeconomic conditions?
Written by leading experts in the field, the book provides detailed national case studies from across the EU, which span labour market regimes and intensities of fiscal pressures to explore whether, and if so how, retrenchment or expansion have taken place across different types of labour market policies and how these changes have been distributed across the well-protected and the less well-protected labour market populations.
"...the breadth and relevance of the topics addressed in the book will appeal to a range of audiences. It constitutes an up-to-date resource for researchers and advanced students of social policy with an interest in European countries" Social Policy & Adminstration
"This edited volume provides the most exhaustive and systematic analysis of labour market policy reforms in Western and Eastern European countries during and after the 2007-08 financial crisis" Tim Vlandas, Associate Professor in Comparative Political Economy, University of Reading
Sotiria Theodoropoulou is a senior researcher and head of the European economic, employment and social policies unit at the ETUI (European Trade Union Institute) where she has been investigating and publishing on the effects of EU policy responses to the financial crisis on the economic performance and labour market policies in Europe. She gained her PhD from the LSE where she also taught courses on the economic analysis of the EU.
Labour market policies in the era of European pervasive austerity: a review ~ Sotiria Theodoropoulou
Structural reforms in Europe: a comparative overview ~ Chiara Agostini and David Natali
Income support policies and labour market reforms under austerity in Greece ~ Manos Matsaganis
The Italian labour market policy reforms and the economic crisis: coming towards the end of Italian exceptionalism? ~ Patrik Vesan and Emmanuele Pavolini
French employment market policies: dualisation and destabilisation ~ Hélène Caune and Sotiria Theodoropoulou
The German exception: welfare protectionism instead of retrenchment ~ Werner Eichhorst and Anke Hassel
The Netherlands and the crisis: from activation to ‘deficiency compensation’ ~ Marcel Hoogenboom
Dualising the Swedish model: Insiders and outsiders and labour market policy reform in Sweden: an overview ~ Johan Bo Davidsson
No longer ‘fit for purpose’? Consolidation and catch-up in Irish labour market policy ~ Fiona Dukelow
Retrenchment, conditionality and flexibility: UK labour market policies in the era of austerity ~ Elke Heins and Hayley Bennett
Czechia: political experimentation or incremental reforms? ~ Tomáš Sirovátka
Slovakia: perpetual austerity and growing emphasis on activation ~ Stefan Domonkos
Slovenian labour market policies under austerity: narrowing the gap between the well- and the less well-protected in the labour market? ~ Miroljub Ignjatović and Maša Filipovič Hrast
Conclusions ~ Sotiria Theodoropoulou
