Europe’s new state of welfare

Jorgen Goul Andersen is Professor of Political Sociology at the Centre for Comparative Welfare Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. Jochen Clasen is Professor of Comparative Social Research at the Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling, UK. Wim van Oorschot is Professor of Sociology of Work and Care at the Department of Social Security Studies, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Knut Halvorsen is Professor and Research Director at the Faculty of Economics, Public Administration and Social Work, Oslo University College, Norway.

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.

Changing labour markets, unemployment and unemployment policies in a citizenship perspective, Jorgen Goul Andersen, Knut Halvorsen; Employment and unemployment in Europe - towards improvement? Jorgen Goul Andersen, Jan Bendix Jensen; Unemployment and unemployment policy in Britain - increasing employability and redefining citizenship Jochen Clasen; To be or not to be employed - unemployment in a "work society" Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer; France: the impossible new social compromise?, Pascal Ughetto, Denis Bouget; Labour market participation in the Netherlands - trends, policies and outcomes, Wim van Oorschot; Is high unemployment due to welfare state protection? Lessons from the Swedish experience, Bengt Furaker; Denmark - from the edge of the abyss to a sustainable welfare state, Jorgen Goul Andersen; Unemployment and (un)employment policies in Norway - the case of an affluent but oil-dependent economy - the paradox of plenty? Knut Halvorsen; Unemployment and unemployment policy in Finland, Heikki Ervasti; Slovenia's navigation through a turbulent transition, Miroljub Ignjatovic, Anja Kopac, Ivan Svetlik, Martina Trbanc; Unemployment and unemployment policy in Switzerland, George Sheldon; Work, welfare and citizenship - diversity and variation within European (un)employment policy, Jochen Clasen, Wim van Oorschot.