Welfare Regimes and the Experience of Unemployment in Europe

Duncan Gallie is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford.Serge Paugam is a Directeur at the CNRS and a member of the Laboratoire de sociologie quantitative, CREST, INSEE, France.

• 1. The Experience of Unemployment in Europe: The Debate ; PART 1: UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY ; 2. Unemployment and Poverty: Change over Time ; 3. Poverty and Financial Hardship among the Unemployed ; 4. Unemployment and Income Packaging among European Youth ; 5. The Changing Effects of Social Protection on Poverty ; PART 2: UNEMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR MARKET MARGINALISATION ; 6. Unemployment, Gender and Attitudes to Work ; 7. The Permanent Effects of Labour Market Entry in Times of High Unemployment ; 8. Unemployment and Cumulative Disadvantage in the Labour Market ; 9. Poverty and the Employment of Lone Mothers ; 10. Social Capital and Exits from Unemployment ; 11. Who Exits Unemployment? Institutional Features, Individual Characteristics and Chances of Getting a Job. A Comparison of Britain and Italy ; PART 3 : UNEMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION ; 12. The Effects of Employment Precarity and Unemployment on Social Isolation ; 13. United in Employment, United in Unemployment? Employment and Unemployment of Couples in the European Union ; 14. Unemployment and Psychological Well-Being ; 15. Gender and the Experience of Unemployment ; 16. Public Attitudes to Unemployment in Different Welfare Regimes ; CONCLUSION ; The Social Regulation of Unemployment