Changing Welfare States
Late-career Risks in Changing Welfare States: Comparing Germany and the United States since the 1980s
1st Edition
By Jan Paul Heisig
January 09, 2026
Motivated by ongoing debates over welfare state retrenchment and growing economic insecurity, this book compares the situation of older workers in Germany and the United States over the past three decades. Both nations are seeing a rise in insecurity for older workers, but the differences in ...
The Impact of Losing Your Job: Unemployment and Influences from Market, Family, and State on Economic Well-Being in the US and Germany
1st Edition
By Martin Ehlert
January 09, 2026
Losing a job has always been understood as one of the most important causes of downward social mobility in modern societies. And it's only gotten worse in recent years, as the weakening position of workers has made re-entering the labour market even tougher. The Impact of Losing Your Job builds on ...
Expanding Welfare in an Age of Austerity: Increasing Protection in an Unprotected World
1st Edition
By Anthony Kevins
December 01, 2025
In recent decades, and particularly since the financial crisis, continental Europe has seen an increasing gap between those workers who have well-protected, good-paying jobs with strong benefits and those who work lower-quality, nonstandard jobs, or who have no regular work at all. This situation ...
Government Ideology, Economic Pressure, and Risk Privatization: How Economic Worldviews Shape Social Policy Choices in Times of Crisis
1st Edition
By Alexander Horn
December 01, 2025
From the 1980s on, a privatization of labor market-related risks has occurred in the OECD. Governments have cut the generosity of social programs and tightened eligibility rules, particularly for the unemployed. Government Ideology, Economic Pressure, and Risk Privatization: How Economic Worldviews...
Migrant Penalties in Educational Achievement: Second-generation Immigrants in Western Europe
1st Edition
By Camilla Borgna
December 01, 2025
The integration of second-generation immigrants has proved to be a major challenge for Europe in recent years. Though these people are born in their host nations, they often experience worse social and economic outcomes than other citizens. This volume focuses on one particular, important challenge...
The Electoral Consequences of Third Way Welfare State Reforms: Social Democracy’s Transformation and its Political Costs
1st Edition
By Christoph Arndt
February 07, 2013
In all advanced Western nations, policy-makers have implemented encompassing welfare state reforms in recent decades breaking with past welfare arrangements. In particular, social democracy engaged in significant policy change under the Third Way paradigm and broke with its traditional reputation ...
Social Concertation in Times of Austerity: European Integration and the Politics of Labour Market Reforms in Austria and Switzerland
1st Edition
By Alexandre Afonso
January 31, 2013
Why do governments still negotiate with trade unions and employers in the design of labour market and welfare reforms despite the steady decline of trade union membership almost everywhere in Europe? Social Concertation in Times of Austerity investigates the political underpinnings of social ...
A Long Goodbye to Bismarck?: The Politics of Welfare Reform in Continental Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruno Palier
May 18, 2010
This book provides an extensive and comparative account of all welfare reforms that occurred during the last three decades in Continental European countries. It reveals unexpected important structural reforms, to be understood as the culmination of a long reform trajectory, analyzed in detail with ...
A New Social Question?: On Minimum Income Protection in the Postindustrial Era
1st Edition
By Ive Marx
December 22, 2006
Advanced welfare states are said to be facing, in the words of Pierre Rosanvallon, a New Social Question. The idea here, and it is a widely shared one, is that the transition from an industrial to a postindustrial environment has brought with it a whole new set of social risks, constraints and ...
Wage Setting, Social Pacts and the Euro: A New Role for the State
1st Edition
By Anke Hassel
September 12, 2006
Globalization, financial liberalization and neo-liberal economic policy thinking have been seen as contributors to the demise of social partnership in Western Europe. Recent examples of the re-emergence of social pacts have challenged these assumptions. The book offers a theoretical understanding ...
Employment 'Miracles': A Critical Comparison of the Dutch, Scandinavian, Swiss, Australian and Irish Cases versus Germany and the US
1st Edition
Edited
By Uwe Becker, Herman Schwartz
April 04, 2005
Why did some economies experience a boom in the 1990s? Employment ‘Miracles’ comparatively analyses select miracle economies. The contributors to the volume critically analyze how the small size and institutional structure of seven countries like the Netherlands, Denmark and Ireland accounted for ...