The origins of active social policy : labour market and childcare polices in a comparative perspective / Giuliano Bonoli.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 219 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780199669769 (hbk.) :
- 0199669767 (hbk.)
- 362.61094 BON
- HN373.5
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Introduction -- 2.Defining active social policy -- 3.Mapping variation in active social policies -- 4.Explaining the emergence of active social policy -- 5.Active labour market policies in a comparative perspective -- 6.Childcare policy in a comparative perspective -- 7.Quantitative evidence: the determinants of public spending on active labour market policy and childcare -- 8.The origins of active social policy.
Using both qualitative and quantitative analysis, this book examines why most Western European countries have reoriented their welfare states away from income protection and in the direction of employment promotion.