Introduction
The Rise of Economic Redundancy
Welfare State Failure(s)
Limits to Incrementalism
Beyond Incrementalism
Organisation of this Book
Acknowledgements
Part 1 The Decline of Self-Reliance and the Labour Demand Shift against the Less-skilled: Conjectures, Facts and Explanations
1 The Decline of Self-Reliance in Advanced Welfare States
1 Introduction
2 A Note on the Relevance of Self-Reliance in Social Policy
3 The Decline of Self-Reliance: General Evidence
4 Evidence for Belgium, with a Particular Focus on the Less-Skilled
5 Difficulties of Interpretation
6 Some Direct Evidence that the Capacity for Economic Self-reliance has Declined
7 Conclusion
2 The Demand Shift against the Less-Skilled
1 Introduction
2 Jobless Growth and the Demand for Less-Skilled labour
3 Is there Evidence of a Universal and Structural Deterioration of the Labour Market Position of the Less-skilled?
4 The Role of Trade and Technological Change Empirically Assessed
5 Accounting for Divergent Country Trajectories: The Role of Education
6 Conclusion
Part 2 New Social Risks, Poverty and the Adequacy of Social Protection
3 Low Pay and Poverty: Anatomy of a ‘New’ Social Risk
1 Introduction
2 What is Low Pay?
3 Low Pay and Poverty
4 Why the Overlap between Low Pay and Poverty is Limited
5 Further Considerations
6 The Impact of Traditional Policy Instruments and the Role for New
7 Conclusion
4 On The Limits to Incrementalism in Income Protection Policy: The Case of Structural Unemployment in Belgium
1 Introduction
2 Unemployment Insurance in Belgium
3 Policy Responses to Mass Unemployment
4 Outcomes in a Comparative Perspective
5 How the UI System Started Failing the Most Vulnerable
6 Why the UI System Started Failing the Most Vulnerable
7 On the Economic Limits to Incrementalism
8 On the Political Limits to Incrementalism
9 Conclusion
Part 3 New Policy Responses Assessed
5 How Responsive are Poverty Rates to Job Growth?
1 Introduction
2 The Renewed Primacy of Work in Social Policy
3 Employment and Poverty: Some Basic Facts
4 Workless Households
5 Households with Work
6 The Case of the Netherlands
7 Conclusion
Appendix Tables
6 Alternatives to Passive Income Support: The Verdict of Empirical Evaluation Studies
1 Introduction
2 Employers’ subsidies
3 Subsidising the Low-paid
4 Conclusion
Overall Conclusion
List of Tables and Figures
References
Index of Names
Index of Subjects