Expanding Welfare in an Age of Austerity : : Increasing Protection in an Unprotected World / / Anthony Kevins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• VerfasserIn: Kevins, Anthony,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Changing Welfare States
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 30 line drawings

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 would seem to call for increased spending on the social safety net, yet governments throughout the region have instead been turning to austerity. In the face of that reality, the options for helping disadvantaged workers are to extend coverage through re-allocating the benefits given to higher-level workers, maintain the benefits of the well-off as the number of outsiders continues to grow, or simply ignore the problem. This book asks why different nations have taken different tacks in handling-or not handling-this problem.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table Of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Struggling With Persistent Gaps -- 2. A Tale Of Two Rmis -- 3. Public Attitudes Towards The Unemployed In Continental, Southern Europe, And Beyond -- 4. Southern European Characteristics In The Broader Context -- 5. Bismarck, Beveridge, And Making The Transition -- 6. Healthcare Reform And Public Opinion In Continental And Southern Europe -- 7. Examining Healthcare Coverage Across The Oecd -- 8. Rectifying Coverage Gaps -- Appendix: A Brief Methodological Note -- Bibliography -- Index