European pension systems are increasingly under pressure. In this book Giuliano Bonoli examines policymakers' efforts to cope in the context of public support for existing pension schemes and the implications of an ageing population. The book compares and assesses the process of pension...

Active labour market policies have developed significantly over the last two decades across OECD countries, with substantial cross-national differences in terms of both extent and overall orientation. The objective of this paper is to account for cross-national variation in this policy field. It...

Welfare state futures / Stephan Leibfried and Herbert Obinger -- Towards a theory of the welfare state / Franz-Xaver Kaufmann -- The dog that didn't bark: economic development and the postwar welfare state / Francis G. Castles -- How do welfare states change? Institutions and their impact on the...

This paper investigates how employers interpret participation in active labor market programs for hiring decisions. Drawing on signaling theory, we assume that employers use program participation as a signal for a candidate's qualities. On the basis of a factorial survey experiment, we simulated...