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The Europe of today faces a concurrence of developmental problems related to structural shifts in the global economy, global competition, changing regional labour markets, demographic change, and European integration. Economic crisis, decreasing industrial employment, the shift to a service economy, flexible and insecure jobs, and persistent mass unemployment exhaust the capacity of the welfare state institutions. Countermeasures by reductions in the transfer systems and public services challenge the basic assumptions underlying the Western European social policies as well as the legitimacy of European integration.
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E.g., Esping-Andersen (1990, 1991, 1999), Korpi and Palme (1994), Colbjörnsen and Esping-Andersen (1992), Castles and Mitchell (1992), Lewis (1992), Duncan (1995), Hirdman (1990), Rubery, Fagan and Smith (1995) and others; see also Vogel (1999) for a summary.
Details are reported in Vogel 1997,1999
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Vogel, J. (2003). Introduction. In: Vogel, J. (eds) European Welfare Production. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0977-5_1
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