Welfare states amid economic turmoil: Adjusting work-oriented policy

Policy and politics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 295-308

  Gilbert, Neil ^a   Besharov, Douglas ^b  

^a University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation; Conditionality; Financial Crisis; Recession; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; FINANCIAL CRISIS; LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY; OECD; POLICY MAKING; UNEMPLOYMENT; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EID: 80051558264     PISSN: 03055736     EISSN: 14708442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/147084411X581808     Document Type: Article

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