Bea Cantillon is Professor of Social Policy at the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp.Frank Vandenbroucke is Member of Parliament of the Flemish Parliament.

• Contents ; Preface ; Introduction ; Bea Cantillon, and Frank Vandenbroucke ; 1 Mapping At-Risk-of-Poverty Rates, Household Employment and Social Spending ; Frank Vandenbroucke, and Ron Diris ; 2 The Evolution of Poverty in the European Union: Concepts, Measurement and Data ; Koen Decancq, Tim Goedeme, Karel Van den Bosch, and Josefine Vanhille ; 3 Individual Employment, Household Employment and Risk of Poverty in the EU. A Decomposition Analysis ; Vincent Corluy, and Frank Vandenbroucke ; 4 In-Work Poverty ; Ive Marx, and Brian Nolan ; 5 Social Redistribution, Poverty and the Adequacy of Social Protection in the EU ; Bea Cantillon, Natascha Van Mechelen, Olivier Pintelon, and Aaron Van den Heede ; 6 The Redistributive Capacity of Services in the EU ; Gerlinde Verbist, and Manos Matsaganis ; 7 Who Benefits from Investment Policies? The Case of Family Activation in European Countries ; Wim Van Lancker, and Joris Ghysels ; 8 The Reform Capacities of European welfare states ; Anton Hemerijck ; 9 Identifying the skeleton of the social investment state: defining and measuring patterns of social policy change on the basis of expenditure data ; Johan De Deken ; 10 Beyond Social Investment. Which Concepts and Values for Social Policy-Making in Europe? ; Bea Cantillon ; Epilogue. What we know, don't know and need to know ; Frank Vandenbroucke, and Bea Cantillon ; Appendix. The Evolution of Public Social Spending 1985-2009 ; Leen Meeusen and Annemie Nys ; References ; Index

"[This book] makes a significant contribution to understanding the complex relationship between poverty, work and social welfare." --James Midgley, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley

Bea Cantillon is Professor of Social Policy at the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp.Frank Vandenbroucke is Member of Parliament of the Flemish Parliament.

• Contents ; Preface ; Introduction ; Bea Cantillon, and Frank Vandenbroucke ; 1 Mapping At-Risk-of-Poverty Rates, Household Employment and Social Spending ; Frank Vandenbroucke, and Ron Diris ; 2 The Evolution of Poverty in the European Union: Concepts, Measurement and Data ; Koen Decancq, Tim Goedeme, Karel Van den Bosch, and Josefine Vanhille ; 3 Individual Employment, Household Employment and Risk of Poverty in the EU. A Decomposition Analysis ; Vincent Corluy, and Frank Vandenbroucke ; 4 In-Work Poverty ; Ive Marx, and Brian Nolan ; 5 Social Redistribution, Poverty and the Adequacy of Social Protection in the EU ; Bea Cantillon, Natascha Van Mechelen, Olivier Pintelon, and Aaron Van den Heede ; 6 The Redistributive Capacity of Services in the EU ; Gerlinde Verbist, and Manos Matsaganis ; 7 Who Benefits from Investment Policies? The Case of Family Activation in European Countries ; Wim Van Lancker, and Joris Ghysels ; 8 The Reform Capacities of European welfare states ; Anton Hemerijck ; 9 Identifying the skeleton of the social investment state: defining and measuring patterns of social policy change on the basis of expenditure data ; Johan De Deken ; 10 Beyond Social Investment. Which Concepts and Values for Social Policy-Making in Europe? ; Bea Cantillon ; Epilogue. What we know, don't know and need to know ; Frank Vandenbroucke, and Bea Cantillon ; Appendix. The Evolution of Public Social Spending 1985-2009 ; Leen Meeusen and Annemie Nys ; References ; Index

"[This book] makes a significant contribution to understanding the complex relationship between poverty, work and social welfare." --James Midgley, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley

Bea Cantillon is Professor of Social Policy at the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp.Frank Vandenbroucke is Member of Parliament of the Flemish Parliament.

• Contents ; Preface ; Introduction ; Bea Cantillon, and Frank Vandenbroucke ; 1 Mapping At-Risk-of-Poverty Rates, Household Employment and Social Spending ; Frank Vandenbroucke, and Ron Diris ; 2 The Evolution of Poverty in the European Union: Concepts, Measurement and Data ; Koen Decancq, Tim Goedeme, Karel Van den Bosch, and Josefine Vanhille ; 3 Individual Employment, Household Employment and Risk of Poverty in the EU. A Decomposition Analysis ; Vincent Corluy, and Frank Vandenbroucke ; 4 In-Work Poverty ; Ive Marx, and Brian Nolan ; 5 Social Redistribution, Poverty and the Adequacy of Social Protection in the EU ; Bea Cantillon, Natascha Van Mechelen, Olivier Pintelon, and Aaron Van den Heede ; 6 The Redistributive Capacity of Services in the EU ; Gerlinde Verbist, and Manos Matsaganis ; 7 Who Benefits from Investment Policies? The Case of Family Activation in European Countries ; Wim Van Lancker, and Joris Ghysels ; 8 The Reform Capacities of European welfare states ; Anton Hemerijck ; 9 Identifying the skeleton of the social investment state: defining and measuring patterns of social policy change on the basis of expenditure data ; Johan De Deken ; 10 Beyond Social Investment. Which Concepts and Values for Social Policy-Making in Europe? ; Bea Cantillon ; Epilogue. What we know, don't know and need to know ; Frank Vandenbroucke, and Bea Cantillon ; Appendix. The Evolution of Public Social Spending 1985-2009 ; Leen Meeusen and Annemie Nys ; References ; Index

"[This book] makes a significant contribution to understanding the complex relationship between poverty, work and social welfare." --James Midgley, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley