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.

About the Author
Hertie School of Governance in Berlin Elke Heins is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Sotiria Theodoropoulou is a Senior Researcher at the ETUI (European Trade Union Institute) where she has been investigating and publishing on the effects of EU policy responses to the financial crisis on the economic performance and labour market policies in Europe. She gained her PhD from the LSE where she also taught courses on the economic analysis of the EU. Sotiria Theodoropoulou is a Senior Researcher at the ETUI (European Trade Union Institute) where she has been investigating and publishing on the effects of EU policy responses to the financial crisis on the economic performance and labour market policies in Europe. She gained her PhD from the LSE where she also taught courses on the economic analysis of the EU.

Reviews
"This edited volume provides the most exhaustive and systematic analysis of labour market policy reforms in Western and Eastern European countries during and after the 2007-08 financial crisis" Tim Vlandas, Associate Professor in Comparative Political Economy, University of Reading
"...the breadth and relevance of the topics addressed in the book will appeal to a range of audiences. It constitutes an up-to-date resource for researchers and advanced students of social policy with an interest in European countries" Social Policy & Adminstration



Book Information
ISBN 9781447335863
Author Anke Hassel
Format Hardback
Page Count 400
Imprint Policy Press
Publisher Bristol University Press