The Welfare State and Life Transitions: A European Perspective - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849804303 ISBN 13: 9781849804301

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

The Welfare State and Life Transitions uses the lens of key life stages to highlight changes in these transitions and in available resources for citizen support within nine European welfare states.

This timely book reveals that new life courses are found to require more, and not less welfare support, but only Sweden has developed an active life course approach and only three more could be considered supportive, in at least some life stages. For the remainder, policies were at best limited or, in Italy’s case, passive. The contributors reveal that the neglect of changing needs is leading to greater reliance on the family and the labour market, just as these support structures are becoming more unpredictable and more unequal. They argue that alongside these new class inequalities, new forms of inter-generational inequality are also emerging, particularly in pension provision.

This topical book will strongly appeal to academics and students interested in social policy, gender equality policy, pensions, industrial relations, labour economics, political science, and comparative welfare systems.

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About the Author

Edited by Dominique Anxo, Linnaeus University, Sweden, Gerhard Bosch, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany and Jill Rubery, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849804303
• ISBN 13: 9781849804301
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Anxo Dominique, Bosch Gerhard, Rubery Jill