EUROPE’S NEW STATE OF WELFARE

Contents

Notes on contributors

Glossary

Preface

1. Changing labour markets, unemployment and unemployment policies in a citizenship perspective

Introduction

Changing unemployment policies and underlying philosophies

Citizenship

Institutional variations

Public policy formation and the plan of this volume

2. Employment and unemployment in Europe: overview and new trends

Introduction

Empirical findings from the comparative economic literature

The changing unemployment situation

Employment and labour force participation

Level and structure of unemployment

Delineation problems and precarious jobs

Social citizenship of the unemployed

Conclusion

3. Unemployment and unemployment policy in the UK: increasing employability and redefining citizenship

Introduction

Unemployment and employment: some British characteristics

Hidden aspects and the impact of geographical disparities

Improving employability – the major route towards securing full citizenship

Conclusion

4. To be or not to be employed? Unemployment in a ‘work society’

German capitalism

Labour market policies and citizenship for a ‘work society’

Adapting to the crisis: the devaluation and reversal of social security citizenship

Prospects

5. France: the impossible new social compromise?

Introduction

Unemployment patterns in France

Liberal reforms: policies oriented towards adapting the French economy to a new competitive context

The erratic way of French institutional reforms

Liberalism and social citizenship

Conclusion

6. Labour market participation in the Netherlands: trends, policies and outcomes

Introduction

Developments in Dutch (un)employment

Trends in Dutch social policies

A closer look at Dutch activation measures

A critical view

Brief discussion

7. Is high unemployment due to welfare state protection? Lessons from the Swedish experience

Patterns of unemployment

Institutional arrangements

Conclusion

8. Denmark: from the edge of the abyss to a sustainable welfare state

Introduction

Real improvement of unemployment or just ‘window dressing’?

Termination of leave arrangements and other welfare policies

Effects and implications for citizenship

Conclusions

9. Unemployment and (un)employment policies in Norway: the case of an affluent but oil-dependent economy: the paradox of plenty?

Introduction

Norway’s historical legacy

The 1980s

The recession of 1988-93: from work to welfare

After the recession: from welfare to work

Outlook and challenges

Implications for citizenship

Conclusion

10. Unemployment and unemployment policy in Finland

Introduction

Unemployment in Finland since the 1970s

Main features of unemployment

Policies

Income distribution, poverty and citizenship

Concluding remarks

11. Slovenia’s navigation through a turbulent transition

Introduction

A changing labour market

Social protection during unemployment: greater control and fewer rights

Increasing European and decreasing social citizenship?

12. Unemployment and unemployment policy in Switzerland

Introduction

Rise in baseline unemployment

Sources of the increase

Policy responses

Conclusions

13. Work, welfare and citizenship: diversity and variation within European (un)employment policy

Towards activation

Citizenship rights

Prospects for the future?

Conclusion

References

Index