Books in the Public Policy and Social Welfare series

Across Europe, the US, Canada and Australia, microsimulation models are used extensively to assess who are the winners and losers from proposed policy reforms. This book offers an introduction to the state of microsimulation internationally, illustrating a wide range of applications and approaches.

Reports the findings of an empirical study of drug users in London, Amsterdam, Turin, Prague, Vienna and Warsaw, European cities representative of a wide range of drug problems and public policies.

Describes and quantifies the major socioeconomic changes that have occurred in four new member states of the EU (Slovenia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria) since the early 1990s. This book explores a number of topics including changes in activity, occupational status and educational attainment, and household income sources and income inequality.

How different are fe/male life courses, and why? What is good, bad, or best for women under these or probable future circumstances? This book explores the difficulties women face in working life and retirement - and asks what can be done to achieve more gender equality and fairness for women and men.

Offers an assessment of the workings of multi-level governance in terms of social welfare policy across different clusters of European states - Nordic, Southern European, Central and East European. This book highlights comparative transversal and transnational issues of multi-level governance in social welfare policies.

Bringing together contributions from institutions such as the OECD, the WHO, the World Bank and the European Disability Forum, as well as policy makers and researchers, this volume focuses on disability and work.

Offers an assessment of income redistribution in Eastern Europe, within a comparative European perspective. This book demonstrates the research potential of microsimulation techniques in this region. It includes chapters that are based on an instrument - EUROMOD: the European tax-benefit microsimulation model.

The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA), adopted at the Second World Assembly on Ageing, is an international agreement that recognises the potential of older people to contribute to the development of their societies. This book contains policy briefs and background papers that support the implementation monitoring process.

How can we conceptualize and measure the personal well-being of older people? What research agenda and policy reforms are necessary to maintain decent well-being for older people, in the context of aging populations? This book presents conceptualization and measurement of the multidimensional measures of older people's welfare.