... does not automatically lead to higher female employment rates, because the effectiveness of work–family reconciliation policy hugely depends on the institutional context. Ultimately, the chapter asserts that social investment strategies should be context-sensitive and tailored to different structural...

...This chapter tests the Matthew effect argument with regard to social inequality in employment. It analyses whether social investment policies favour low-quality jobs. For the testing of the two dimensions, employment and job quality, the chapter focuses on two particular policy areas: active labour...

...This chapter provides a summary of active labour market policies (ALMPs) to date and makes the case for the inclusion of analysis on employers. In the decades since the resurgence of ALMPs in the 1990s, a critical limitation identified by numerous studies is that ALMPs are too focused on the supply...

...This chapter explores the intentions behind, progress made and practical barriers faced by the Australian government in its bid to help more people with disabilities gain meaningful employment. Insights into these issues along with some key recommendations are illustrated through a case study...

...This chapter introduces the role of employment policy and employment support. Employment support brings with it a number of complex interactions with public health policy and provision. This goes beyond simply what the public sector does through Jobcentre Pluses, but also sees crucial (and now well...

...Drawing upon the narratives of my diverse participants, this chapter looks across a wide range of employment from finance, to teaching and health care, to construction. In so doing, I explore how networks may operate differently across particular sectors of the labour market. In this way, I...

... the mothers had in accessing the formal childcare provision within Universal Credit and the lack of employment-related support they received in obtaining paid work. The chapter continues by detailing the participants’ difficulties in trying to meet the work-related requirements of Universal Credit...

...The purpose of this chapter is to explore the social policy implications and politics of employment-related taxes with respect to both paid employment and self-employment. Taxes levied on paid employment, including both income tax and National Insurance contributions, represent a major source...

...The focus of this chapter is on income support. A fundamental overhaul of existing welfare trajectories means shifting away from institutions and policies that ‘commodify’ labour and prioritise productivity growth and employment as the primary mechanism to social citizenship. Decommodification...

... will explore the concept of melting labour by examining the characteristics of non-standard forms of work and their deviation from the traditional standard employment relationship. We will examine how the eligibility criteria for social security are inconsistent with new forms of work, conceptualised...

... and the legal and regulatory system, and the empirical contribution of industrial relations to a more contextualized, sociological or socio-legal understanding of law in relation to work and employment. The chapter highlights the importance of the interplay of social norms with formal legal norms...

...This chapter looks at ways of connecting the social model of disability to the various labour market issues, particularly the experiences of Deaf people. It looks at access to employment for those who are considered ‘disabled’, and examines unemployment and underemployment for disabled people...

... segregation, leading to a cycle of deprivation among poor families; gradually introducing laid-off workers to the open employment market; administrative absorption of welfare dissatisfaction; and a gap in welfare implementation. The long-term development of China's welfare system is unclear although...

...This introductory chapter begins with a brief assessment of the growth of women's employment in the second half of the twentieth century. It then sets out the purpose of the book, which is to compare two countries — Italy and Britain — and investigate changes across four successive birth cohorts...

... the latter can fully be transplanted in Spain, and (b) some final thoughts on the paradoxical nature of the data on entrepreneurship gleaned from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). Spain Great Recession 2008 NEET Not in Employment Education or Training young people Okun’s coefficient Butkus M...

... Spain Spanish Civil War wage employment austerity policies global financial crisis 2008 Ley para el Fomento del Trabajo Autónomo y la Economía Social Law for the Promotion of Autonomous Work and Social Economy 2007 Spain self employment activism and fatigue fatigue and activism Narotzky Susana...

... nationalizations pluralism austerity measures precarious employment wages debt housing issues banks living wage movements neoliberalism Austerity measures have faced one of the biggest and most dynamic waves of protest in recent decades. While a pluralism of issues converged in the occupied squares...

... Workers Henricson C kindness morality poverty social work Unwin Julia business ethics commissioning employment practice ethical ethical employment practice large providers social contract approach stakeholders stockholder theory Williams Bernard British Academy Commission on Economic...

..., particularly in Australia, the UK, and US, and the consequence is renewed emphasis on improving low-wage employment as a path to ameliorating inequality. The Introduction further establishes that arguments for living wages go beyond union demands and claims made by socialists—liberals and conservatives have...

... of the Anglo-American model in place now for several decades. That consensus promoted adjustments to globalisation and technology by promoting a lean workfare model, maximising dependence on deregulated private labour markets held in place by low minimum wage floors. Growing problems with poor employment...