Over the past decade, European social policy has been oriented towards ways of integrating people into the labour market, moving citizens from welfare dependency to work. Recipients of social benefits are now generally required to participate in employment activation shemes. Many are also likely...

This book analyses the impact of European tax and benefit systems on incentives to create and take up jobs. European policymakers face tough choices as reforms to these systems are costly, and recognising and understanding the complex tradeoffs involved - a pre-condition to pushing the reform...