The Last Safety Net : A Handbook of Minimum Income Protection in Europe

Minimum income protection provides the last social safety net for people in need. The book provides a systematic comparative and longitudinal analysis of minimum income protection systems in 17 EU countries based on a newly developed dataset. Country-specific chapters providing institutional overviews are combined with comparative quantitative indicators on issues such as benefit levels, expenditures and beneficiaries. The book will be of major interest to researchers, scholars and experts in income protection, poverty and the welfare state. THE LAST SAFETY NET Contents List of tables and figures List of abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Defining and measuring minimum income protection Welfare state contexts Country analyses Austria Belgium The Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Hungary Ireland Italy The Netherlands Poland Portugal Slovakia Spain Sweden United Kingdom Comparative analyses Conclusion Bibliography Index As Europe's public realms face upheaval, this text identifies how social solidarity is being re-invented from below and redefined from above. Interdisciplinary transnational approaches provide new insights into the relationship between national and transnational social solidarity across Europe This book provides a systematic comparative and longitudinal analysis of minimum income protection systems in seventeen EU-countries based on a newly developed dataset. Thomas Bahle, Vanessa Hubl And Michaela Pfeifer. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 239-261) And Index.