Young People and Social Policy in Europe

1. Introduction: Young People and Social Policy in Europe

1. Introduction: Young People and Social Policy in Europe
Myra Hamilton, Lorenza Antonucci, Steven Roberts

2. Constructing a Theory of Youth and Social Policy

2. Constructing a Theory of Youth and Social Policy
Lorenza Antonucci, Myra Hamilton, Steven Roberts

Part I. Precarity, Social Exclusion and Youth Policy in Europe

3. The Complex Nature of Youth Poverty and Deprivation in Europe
Eldin Fahmy

4. At Risk of Deskilling and Trapped by Passion: A Picture of Precarious Highly Educated Young Workers in Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom
Annalisa Murgia, Barbara Poggio

5. Social Exclusion, Risk and the UK Youth Labour Market
Clive Sealey

6. Young People at Work in Greece before and after the Crisis
Lefteris Kretsos

7. The Impacts of Employment Instability on Transitions to Adulthood: The Mileuristas Young Adults in Spain
Alessandro Gentile

Part II. Changing Transitions, Welfare Sources and Social Policies

8. Labour Market Risks and Sources of Welfare among European Youth in Times of Crisis
Lara Maestripieri, Stefania Sabatinelli

9. Have Nordic Welfare Regimes Adapted to Changes in Transitions to Adulthood? Unemployment Insurance and Social Assistance among Young People in the Nordic Welfare States
Anna Angelin, Timo Kauppinen, Thomas Lorentzen, Olof Bäckman, Pasi Moisio, Espen Dahl, Tapio Salonen

10. The Dualisation of Social Policies towards Young People in France: Between Familism and Activation
Tom Chevalier, Bruno Palier

11. Young Adults’ Transitions to Residential Independence in the UK: The Role of Social and Housing Policy
Ann Berrington, Juliet Stone

12. Life-Course Policy and the Transition from School to Work in Germany
Walter R. Heinz

13. Youth Transitions, Precarity and Inequality and the Future of Social Policy in Europe
Lorenza Antonucci, Myra Hamilton

Nyckelord: Political Science and International Relations, European Politics, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Policy, Economic Policy, Children, Youth and Family Policy, European Union Politics