Book launch 24 April 2018

Most analysts suspect that years of austerity pressures have had a profound impact on labour market and social policies as governments grapple with shrinking budgets and ‘new social risks’. But until now there have been few systematic attempts to map these shifts across European countries. A new book just published by Sotiria Theodoropoulou, Head of Unit II, European economic, employment and social policies at the ETUI, tries to accomplish this through a comparative analysis of new approaches to labour market policy under the pressures of ‘permanent austerity’.

This edited volume, ‘Labour market policies in the era of pervasive austerity’, published by Policy Press, brings together a range of case studies by leading experts to examine patterns of convergence and divergence in European labour market policies. It tries to capture the complexity of responses to economic, fiscal and demographic shocks by analysing a range of factors determining policy choices and outcomes, including the strategies of some governments to protect labour market ‘insiders’ at the expense of more marginalized groups. read more

Speakers:

Sotiria Theodoroupolou, Head of Unit II "European economic, employment and social policies", ETUI
Patrik Vesan, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Aosta Valley and
Fiona Dukelow, Lecturer in Social Policy, School of Applied Social Studies, University College, Cork

Discussant: Ben Egan, ETUC Advisor

Chair: Philippe Pochet, General Director, ETUI