1st Edition

Social Investment and Institutional Change

Edited By Andrea Ciarini Copyright 2023
136 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

136 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

136 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book focuses on the main institutional changes affecting the Social Investment approach as the framework for the European social agenda. The contributions gathered address these issues from different angles, placing two fundamental issues at the centre of the analysis. The first concerns the promotion of the strategic actions of European institutions and the national governments aimed at... Read more

Chapter One – Introduction: Investments and social policies in the years of the crisis
Andrea Ciarini

Chapter Two – The social investment welfare state: what can it achieve?
Colin Crouch

Chapter Three – Minimum income and active labour market policies. The traps of the work-first approaches
Andrea Ciarini, Silvia Girardi and Valeria Pulignano

Chapter Four – Social policies and employment in personal care services. The working poor and services in times of austerity
Andrea Ciarini

Chapter Five – Social investment recovery for a resilient Eurozone
Anton Hemerijck and Stefano Ronchi

Chapter Six – Minimum income and working time in the pluri-active society
Andrea Ciarini and Massimo Paci

Biography

Andrea Ciarini is Associate Professor of Economic Sociology in the Department of Social and Economic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His research interests concern social policies and welfare systems from a comparative European perspective.