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Decent incomes for all : improving policies in Europe
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This book aims to shed new light on recent poverty trends in the European Union, responses by European welfare states, and how progress can be made to realize a decent income for all. The text anal...
This book aims to shed new light on recent poverty trends in the European Union, responses by European welfare states, and how progress can be made to realize a decent income for all. The text analyzes the effect of social and fiscal policies before, during, and after the recent economic crisis and studies the impact of alternative policy packages on poverty and inequality. Furthermore, the discussion elaborates on how social investment and local initiatives of social innovation can contribute to tackling poverty. There are reasons for both optimism and pessimism. The book argues that there are indeed structural constraints on the increase of the social floor and difficult trade-offs involved in reconciling work and poverty reduction. Differences across countries are, however, very large. This suggests that there is ample room for maneuver for policy makers. There is also no evidence of a universal deterioration of social protection. Nonetheless, we observe a persistent and almost general inadequacy of minimum income protection for jobless households, pointing to structural challenges for realizing a decent minimum income for all. To overcome these challenges, unavoidably, efforts to raise the wage and the social floor should be increased significantly almost everywhere. The book highlights that to do so, country-specific policy mixes should be designed.
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- Creator
- edited by Bea Cantillon, Tim Goedemé, John Hills
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
- Physical Details
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- xxiii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780190849696, 019084969X, 9780190849702
- OCLC
- on1044770861
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Foreword: a self-critical flashback on the European Union's anti-poverty promise -- Part 1. Income poverty in Europe: setting the scene -- What does it mean to live on the poverty threshold? Lessons from reference budgets -- Employment and poverty dynamics before, during, and after the crisis -- A pan-European perspective on low-income dynamics in the European Union -- Part 2. The role of social protection -- The impact of social transfers on income poverty and material deprivation -- Policy and poverty in seven European Union countries in the Lisbon decade: the contribution of tax-benefit policy changes -- Distributive effects of the crisis in the European periphery -- Do employment-conditional earnings subsidies work? -- Part 3. New policy paradigms: what can be expected? -- Improving poverty reduction: lessons from the social innovation perspective -- Social investment at crossroads: "the third way" or "the enlightened path" forward? -- Part 4. Toward a decent social floor for all Europeans -- The end of cheap talk about poverty reduction: the cost of closing the poverty gap while maintaining work incentives -- The design of in-work benefits: how to boost employment and combat poverty in Belgium? -- Toward adequate minimum incomes: which role for Europe? -- Conclusion: how to get there?