Continental drift: On unemployment policy change in Bismarckian welfare states

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 597-617

  Clegg, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bismarckian welfare states; Policy change; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LABOR POLICY; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; UNEMPLOYMENT; WELFARE REFORM;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GERMANY; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35148838684     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: 14679515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2007.00574.x     Document Type: Article

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