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Informationen zum Autor SONJA DROBNIC Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Hamburg, GermanyCOLETTE FAGAN Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UKANA M. GUILLEN Full professor of Sociology at the University of Oviedo, SpainALEKSANDRA KANJUO MRCELA Associate Professor of Sociology of Work and Economic Sociology and a Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, SloveniaIRENA E. KOTOWSKA Professor of Demography and Head of the Demography Unit at the Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics, PolandHELEN NORMAN Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UKEMMANUELE PAVOLINI Associate Professor of Economic Sociology and Social Policy at Macerata University, ItalyJANNEKE PLANTENGA Professor of Economics at the Utrecht University School of Economics, The NetherlandsCHANTAL REMERY Assistant Professor at Utrecht University School of Economics, The NetherlandsMARK SMITH Associate Professor of Human Resource Management at Grenoble Ecole de Management, FranceJUDIT TAKACS works as the Scientific Deputy Director at the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Klappentext This book analyzes how the current generation of young adults enters the labour market and tries to create their own autonomous household, with or without children, exploring questions such as what does it mean to be a young adult in Europe today and what social policies help them to combine work and family life? Zusammenfassung This book analyzes how the current generation of young adults enters the labour market and tries to create their own autonomous household! with or without children! exploring questions such as what does it mean to be a young adult in Europe today and what social policies help them to combine work and family life? Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables List of Figures Notes on Contributors PART I: SOCIAL RISKS AND POLICY PARADIGMS IN THE EU AND MEMBER STATES New Social Risks for Young Adults: A Conceptual Framework; T.Knijn Three Policy Paradigms and EU Policies on Young Adults; T.Knijn European Union and Member States' Youth Policies Agenda; T.Knijn & M.Smith PART II: HOW TO GET IN? CROSS-NATIONAL ANALYSES OF POLICIES FOR AND PRACTICES OF YOUNG ADULTS IN EU MEMBER STATES Normative and Institutional Frameworks for Family Formation; S.Drobnic & T.Knijn Family Change in Europe from the Transition to Adulthood Perspective; I.Kotowska Young Adults Navigating European Labour Markets: Old and New Social Risks and Employment Policies; C.Fagan , A.Kanjuo-Mrcela & H.Norman Young Adults, Poverty and the Role of Social Policies; A.Guillén Rodríguez & E.Pavolini Public Support to Young Families in the European Union; J.Plantenga , C.Remery & J.Takacs Conclusion: Transitions to Adulthood: Social Policies and New Social Risks for Young Adults; T.Knijn & J.Plantenga Bibliography Index...
