Social and Labour Market Policy: The Basics is an accessible and informative student guide, which provide an overview of the fundamental principles of a the subject a jargon-free format. By showing how social and labour market policy in contemporary society is understood, it also covers classical issue such as policy development by using a fresh approach to integration as well as old and new social risk.

List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; List of abbreviations; Chapter 1. What is it all about?; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Historical trajectories; 1.3. What is social and labour market policy?; 1.4. Overview of the book; 1.5. Some delimitations; 1.6. Summing up; References; Chapter 2. Elements of social policy; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Central fields in social policy; 2.3. Basic concepts; 2.4. Core actors in social policy; 2.5. Summing-up; References; Chapter 3. Aims of social policy; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. What are well-being and welfare?; 3.3. Old and new social risks; 3.4. Instruments and well-being; 3.5. Poverty and inequality; 3.6. Is it the same in all welfare states?; 3.7. Summing-up; References; Chapter 4. Crisis and new ways in welfare states; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Why crisis?; 4.3. Legitimacy of social policy; 4.4. Abilities to finance welfare; 4.5. How to choose the best pathway ¿ evidence in social policy; 4.6. Summing-up; References; Chapter 5. Ideas and social policy; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Why ideas matter; 5.3. Keynesian, neo-liberal and social investment; 5.4. The influence of regionalisation and globalisation; 5.5. Summing-up; References; Chapter 6. Labour market policy; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. What is a labour market and employment/unemployment?; 6.3. Fourth industrial revolution; 6.4. Central concepts to understand the development; 6.5. Flexicurity ¿ as buzzword; 6.6. The impact of free movement of workers and migration; 6.7. Summing-up; References; Chapter 7. Active labour market policy; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. What is active labour market policy?; 7.3. Different aims of active labour market policy; 7.4. What does and does not work in active labour market policy?; 7.5. Summing-up ¿ the way forward for labour market policy; References; Chapter 8. The future; 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. Why is social and labour market policy important?; 8.3. Future challenges for social and labour market policy; 8.4. Possible changes; 8.5. Summing-up; References; Index

Bent Greve is Professor in Social Science with an emphasis on welfare state analysis at the University of Roskilde, Denmark. His research interest focuses on the welfare state, and social and labour market policy, often from a comparative perspective. He has published extensively on social and labour market policy, social security, tax expenditures, public sector expenditures and financing of the welfare state. He is editor of Social Policy & Administration. Recent books include Long-Term Care for the Elderly in Europe: Development and Prospects (ed., 2017); Handbook of Social Policy Evaluation (ed., 2017); Technology and the Future of Work (2017); The Impact on Labour Markets and Welfare States (2017).