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  • Job Insecurity and Life Courses

    by Sonia Bertolini, Valentina Goglio, Dirk Hofäcker ...
    The relationship between unstable work careers and family transitions into adult life can vary according to the personal circumstances of individuals, as well as the welfare state system of the country.Drawing from interviews and survey data across the EU and the UK, this in-depth study explores how worker instability is perceived and experienced, and how this ‘perception’ in turn affects ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Social Exclusion of Youth in Europe

    The Multifaceted Consequences of Labour Market Insecurity

    Edited by Marge Unt, Michael Gebel, Sonia Bertolini, Vassiliki Deliyanni-Kouimtzi, Dirk Hofäcker ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Policymakers throughout Europe are enacting policies to support youth labour market integration. However, many young people continue to face unemployment, job insecurity, and the subsequent consequences.Adopting a mixed-method and multilevel perspective, this book provides a comprehensive investigation into the multifaceted consequences ... Read more

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    Series series Munich Lectures in Economics
    A leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the quantification of well-being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to analyze.Revolutionary developments in economics are rare. The conservative bias of the field and its enshrined knowledge make it difficult to introduce new ideas not in line with received theory. Happiness research, however ... Read more

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  • Happiness Around the World

    The paradox of happy peasants and miserable millionaires

    by Carol Graham ...
    For centuries the pursuit of happiness was the preserve of either the philosopher or the voluptuary and took second place to the basic need to survive on the one hand, and the pressure to conform to social conventions and morality on the other. More recently there is a burgeoning interest in the study of happiness, in the social sciences and in the media. Can we really answer the question what ... Read more

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  • The Uses of Social Investment

    Edited by Anton Hemerijck ...
    The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the limits and potential of social investment. It surveys the emergence, diffusion, limits, merits, and politics of social investment as the welfare policy paradigm for the 21st century, seen through the lens of the ... Read more

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  • Envy in Politics

    by Gwyneth H. McClendon ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
    How envy, spite, and the pursuit of admiration influence politicsWhy do governments underspend on policies that would make their constituents better off? Why do people participate in contentious politics when they could reap benefits if they were to abstain? In Envy in Politics, Gwyneth McClendon contends that if we want to understand these and other forms of puzzling political behavior, we should ... Read more

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  • Happiness for All?

    Unequal Hopes and Lives in Pursuit of the American Dream

    by Carol Graham ...
    How the optimism gap between rich and poor is creating an increasingly divided societyThe Declaration of Independence states that all people are endowed with certain unalienable rights, and that among these is the pursuit of happiness. But is happiness available equally to everyone in America today? How about elsewhere in the world? Carol Graham draws on cutting-edge research linking income ... Read more

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  • Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia

    International Lessons and Policy Implications

    by Jooha Lee, Hyejin Choi, Jaehyoung Park, Mi Young An, Jieun Lee, Ijin Hong, Niccolo Durazzi, Young Jun Choi, Kim Yun-Young, Sonia Exley0, Sung-Hee Lee1, Sam Mohun-Himmelweit2 ...
    Series series Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
    Social investment policies have enjoyed prominence during recent welfare reforms across the OECD world, and yet there is insufficient long-term strategy for their success.Reviewing labour market, family and education policies, this edited collection analyses the emergence of social investment policies in both Europe and East Asia. Adopting a life course perspective and examining both public and ... Read more

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  • Culture, Growth and Economic Policy

    by Panagiotis E. Petrakis ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    It is a wide-spread belief that the cultural background inhered in a society affects the requirements of economic development. This relationship requires theoretical and empirical justification. The present book provides this together with an analysis of the development of cultural background itself. Cultural background is embodied in political institutions, in transactions, knowledge, incentives, ... Read more

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  • Economic Interdependence and International Conflict

    New Perspectives on an Enduring Debate

    Edited by Edward Deering Mansfield, Brian M. Pollins ...
    Series series Michigan Studies In International Political Economy
    The claim that open trade promotes peace has sparked heated debate among scholars and policymakers for centuries. Until recently, however, this claim remained untested and largely unexplored. Economic Interdependence and International Conflict clarifies the state of current knowledge about the effects of foreign commerce on political-military relations and identifies the avenues of new research ... Read more

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  • Generational Tensions and Solidarity Within Advanced Welfare States

    Edited by Asgeir Falch-Eriksen, Marianne Takle, Britt Slagsvold ...
    Series series Social Welfare Around the World
    This book explores generation as both a reference to family or kinship structures, and a reference to cohorts or age sets. The principal objective is branching out this two-part concept through studies of tensions and solidarity within and between generations of advanced and robust welfare states.Answering key questions using multiple disciplinary approaches, the book considers how generations ... Read more

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  • Older Workers and Labour Market Exclusion Processes

    A Life Course perspective

    Edited by Nathalie Burnay, Jim Ogg, Clary Krekula, Patricia Vendramin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book addresses the important and neglected question of older workers who are excluded from the labour market. It challenges post-capitalist discourses of active ageing with a focus on restrictive end-of-career and retirement measures. The book demonstrates how a paradigm shift is generating real processes of exclusion for important sectors of the population. By providing strong ... Read more

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