The European Social Model in Crisis ─ Is Europe Losing Its Soul?

The International Labor Organization and the European Union jointly organized a conference in Brussels during February 2014, where economists and social scientists explored the European Social Model in times of crisis and austerity. The 11 papers here from that gathering discuss such topics as whether the Baltic states are converging with the European Social Model or further liberalizing, the German welfare state moving from an inclusive to an exclusive Bismarckian model, recent changes moving Hungary away from the European Social Model, continuity and change in Italian welfare state retrenchment, and resilience and success in the Swedish social model during turbulent times. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Edited by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead, Senior Economist, International Labour Office,Geneva, Switzerland and Professor, Sciences Po, Paris, France