Economics of Social Policy
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Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy
Edited by Jacques Charmes
‘Jacques Charmes and Edward Elgar Publishing are to be warmly congratulated for this Handbook, which reflects on 50 years of academic discussion on the informal economy, and offers us new insights and inspiration for the next 50 years of...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Welfare State Legitimacy in Times of Crisis and Austerity
Edited by Tijs Laenen, Bart Meuleman, Wim van Oorschot
‘The three editors unite the finest state-of-the-art research about public attitudes towards the welfare state in Europe. Drawing on the 2008 and 2016 waves of the high-quality European Social Survey, the contributors analyse how and why...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A Companion to Transport, Space and Equity
Edited by Robin Hickman, Beatriz Mella Lira, Moshe Givoni, Karst Geurs
‘This unique and comprehensive volume provides a much-needed lens into multiple dimensions of transport equity across the life cycle, genders, modes, and indeed, the entire globe. By drawing from a diverse collection of cases, this colle...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Towards Convergence in Europe
Edited by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
This book aims to answer a number of important questions. To what extent have European countries converged or diverged with EU-wide economic and social indicators over the past 20 years? What have been the drivers of convergence? Why do ... -
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Giving Behaviours and Social Cohesion
Lorna Zischka
‘This is an uncommon book and has great value in illustrating detail in the rationale for giving and how it connects to larger societal benefit. It will be of utmost interest to researchers working with related topics.’ – Christopher L. ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Digitalization, Immigration and the Welfare State
Mårten Blix
‘Using the economic and social laboratory of Sweden, Mårten Blix provides a fascinating window into the future of the welfare state with the threats and opportunities from a massive increase in immigration and rapid digitilisation of the...eBook:Find out more$35.20
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Household Debt and Economic Crises
Heikki Hiilamo
‘Impressively informative and exceptionally well organised and presented Household Debt and Economic Crises is a critically important and unreservedly recommended addition to professional, corporate, governmental, college, and university...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Reducing Inequalities in Europe
Edited by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
International debate has recently focused on increased inequalities and the adverse effects they may have on both social and economic developments. Income inequality, now at its highest level for the past half-century, may not only under...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-being
Edited by Conchita D’Ambrosio
‘This Handbook updates and modernizes decades of scholarship on macro-level markers of progress and micro-level measures of well-being. Its main contribution is its insistence on integrating non-traditional frameworks into conventional a...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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The Home
Edited by Antonio Argandoña
‘The home is an institution at the base of society which impacts individuals’ outcomes and decisions across the life course, from child developmental outcomes to work and retirement decisions. This book is a collection of contributions e...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Bridging the Prosperity Gap in the EU
Edited by Ulf Bernitz, Moa Mårtensson, Lars Oxelheim, Thomas Persson
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the authors invaluably pinpoint both overarching problems and possibilities associated with the social dimension of European integration. Prominent researchers of economics, law and political science...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare
Edited by Wim van Oorschot, Femke Roosma, Bart Meuleman, Tim Reeskens
‘Deservingness considerations are central to the moral economy of welfare state arrangements. This book, written by a distinguished group of authors, offers a comprehensive, inspiring and highly innovative account of the logic and the dr...eBook:Find out more$40.00
