Labour Market Policies in the Era of Pervasive Austerity : : A European Perspective / / ed. by Sotiria Theodoropoulou.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Agostini, Chiara,; Bennett, Hayley,; Caune, Hélène,; Davidsson, Johan Bo,; Domonkos, Stefan,; Dukelow, Fiona,; Eichhorst, Werner,; Hassel, Anke,; Heins, Elke,; Hoogenboom, Marcel,; Hrast, Maša Filipovič,; Ignjatović, Miroljub,; Matsaganis, Manos,; Natali, David,; Pavolini, Emmanuele,; Sirovátka, Tomáš,; Theodoropoulou, Sotiria,; Vesan, Patrik,
• HerausgeberIn: Theodoropoulou, Sotiria,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 53 Black and White

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Labour market policies in the era of European pervasive austerity: a review -- Structural reforms in Europe: a comparative overview -- Income support policies and labour market reforms under austerity in Greece -- The Italian labour market policy reforms and the economic crisis: coming towards the end of Italian exceptionalism? -- French employment market policies: dualisation and destabilisation -- The German exception: welfare protectionism instead of retrenchment -- The Netherlands and the crisis: from activation to ‘deficiency compensation’ -- Dualising the Swedish model: insiders and outsiders and labour market policy reform in Sweden: an overview -- No longer ‘fit for purpose’? Consolidation and catch-up in Irish labour market policy -- Retrenchment, conditionality and flexibility – UK labour market policies in the era of austerity -- Czechia: political experimentation or incremental reforms? -- Slovakia: perpetual austerity and growing emphasis on activation -- Slovenian labour market policies under austerity: narrowing the gap between the well- and the less well-protected in the labour market? -- Conclusions -- Index