Social Investment and Institutional Change

This book focuses on the main institutional changes affecting the Social Investment approach, as the framework for the European social agenda.

List of contents

1.Introduction: Investments and social policies in the years of the crisis . 2.The social investment welfare state: what can it achieve? 3.Minimum income and active labour market policies. The traps of the work-first approaches. 4.Social policies and employment in personal care services. The working poor and services in times of austerity. 5.Social investment recovery for a resilient Eurozone. 6.Minimum income and working time in the pluri-active society.

About the author

Andrea Ciarini is Associate Professor of Economic Sociology in the Department of Social and Economic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His research interests concern social policies and welfare systems from a comparative European perspective.

Summary

This book focuses on the main institutional changes affecting the Social Investment approach, as the framework for the European social agenda.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Ciarini
• Assisted by: Andrea Ciarini (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032439778
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3243977-8
• No. of pages: 124
• Series: Social Welfare Around the World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, Medicine, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security, Social Work, Social issues & processes, Public Administration, Social and ethical issues, Medicine and Nursing