Welfare and the Great Recession surveys and analyses welfare consequences in the period following the financial crisis in Europe. It investigates how the burden

Officially over in 2009, the Great Recession is now generally acknowledged to be the most devastating global economic crisis since the Great Depression. As a re

There is no precedent to the current economic crisis which looks set to redefine social policy debate throughout the globe. But its effects are not uniform acro

This book examines European welfare states, how and why they are changing, and how they are likely to develop.

We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing f