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This book provides the first comprehensive analyses of the
challenges all European welfare systems have been facing since
2007, combining in-depth country-based studies and comparative
chapters. It focuses on: 1) the economic and financial crisis, 2)
demographic change, and 3) the balance between avoiding risks and
opening up opportunities in social policy. The results show that
European welfare systems tend to face the same challenges in
different ways and that also their responses to those challenges
differ considerably. Although the EU also plays a part in shaping
national welfare systems, it becomes evident that European welfare
systems are by no means converging: in terms of social policy,
national diversity within Europe is still a major factor that will
shape future developments in European welfare systems.
Provisioning for basic human needs is done in three main kind of
institutions: the familial household; the commercial enterprise
selling goods and services; the institutions of the Welfare State
that provide education, medical care and other goods and personal
services to all or to some specific groups of citizens in need. The
purpose of this book is to study the interplay of these
institutions and their impact on well-being, and to analyze key
policies and measures that have been implemented in European
countries. Institutions determine labour demand (men and women are
hired by the institutions of the Welfare State or by market
providers of care), the possibilities of consumption (wages earned
can be used to buy goods and services only if such goods and
services are provided by the market) and allocate people's time, in
particular women's time, between paid work and unpaid domestic
production and provision of care, shaping both the gender relations
and time use of people of both sexes. The proper balance of these
institutions is a prerequisite of well-being both of the care
givers and of the care receivers, and also for satisfactory gender
relations. The chapters in this book focus on the following
sub-topics: gender and welfare regimes; gender, well-being and the
provision of care in the family and the household; and gender and
well-being in the labour market. They emphasise the interdependence
of social and labour market policies in the context of fundamental
changes in both working patterns (the increase in female
labour-force participation rates) and social needs (including
population ageing) and demonstrate that we need a more integrated
approach to welfare policy which takes account not only of basic
welfare entitlements, but also the need for supportive forms of
service provision and employment regulation.
Provisioning for basic human needs is done in three main kind of
institutions: the familial household; the commercial enterprise
selling goods and services; the institutions of the Welfare State
that provide education, medical care and other goods and personal
services to all or to some specific groups of citizens in need. The
purpose of this book is to study the interplay of these
institutions and their impact on well-being, and to analyze key
policies and measures that have been implemented in European
countries. Institutions determine labour demand (men and women are
hired by the institutions of the Welfare State or by market
providers of care), the possibilities of consumption (wages earned
can be used to buy goods and services only if such goods and
services are provided by the market) and allocate people's time, in
particular women's time, between paid work and unpaid domestic
production and provision of care, shaping both the gender relations
and time use of people of both sexes. The proper balance of these
institutions is a prerequisite of well-being both of the care
givers and of the care receivers, and also for satisfactory gender
relations. The chapters in this book focus on the following
sub-topics: gender and welfare regimes; gender, well-being and the
provision of care in the family and the household; and gender and
well-being in the labour market. They emphasise the interdependence
of social and labour market policies in the context of fundamental
changes in both working patterns (the increase in female
labour-force participation rates) and social needs (including
population ageing) and demonstrate that we need a more integrated
approach to welfare policy which takes account not only of basic
welfare entitlements, but also the need for supportive forms of
service provision and employment regulation.
This book provides the first comprehensive analyses of the
challenges all European welfare systems have been facing since
2007, combining in-depth country-based studies and comparative
chapters. It focuses on: 1) the economic and financial crisis, 2)
demographic change, and 3) the balance between avoiding risks and
opening up opportunities in social policy. The results show that
European welfare systems tend to face the same challenges in
different ways and that also their responses to those challenges
differ considerably. Although the EU also plays a part in shaping
national welfare systems, it becomes evident that European welfare
systems are by no means converging: in terms of social policy,
national diversity within Europe is still a major factor that will
shape future developments in European welfare systems.
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