This book analyzes in what way activation policies impact on given patterns of social citizenship that predominate in national contexts. It argues that the libe

This volume provides an up-to-date overview of activation strategies in unemployment benefit systems and social assistance in selected European countries and th

Activation policies which promote and enforce labour market participation continue to proliferate in Europe and constitute the reform blueprint from centre-left

Using panel data for 15 industrial countries, active labor market policies (ALMPs) are shown to have raised employment rates in the business sector in the 1990s