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Essays, analysis, research notes, and reports on European politics, social policy, migration, and welfare states.
Why Southern Europe Keeps Producing Insiders and Outsiders
Dualised labour markets and the political economy of fragmented social protection in Italy, Spain, Greece, and Portugal.
Why Southern Europe Keeps Producing Insiders and Outsiders
Dualised labour markets and the political economy of fragmented social protection in Italy, Spain, Greece, and Portugal.
Reading the Draghi Report Against the Welfare State
Competitiveness, productivity, and the missing social dimension of the EU's industrial agenda.
What 'Activation' Means in Practice
A comparative look at how active labour market policies are implemented across regimes and what survives translation.
Migration Statistics, Carefully
Five methodological pitfalls when reasoning from aggregate migration data to political conclusions.
Continental Welfare States and the Care Question
Why the Bismarckian model struggles with ageing, fertility, and the social investment turn.
European Unemployment Insurance: Still a Long Way Off
From SURE to a permanent reinsurance scheme: where the political constraints actually bind.
The Moderating Role of Social Policy Regimes: Immigration and Unemployment in the EU, 2010–2019
How social policy regimes mediate the relationship between immigration and unemployment across EU member states.
How Welfare States Shape Labour Market Risk
How institutional design across welfare regimes redistributes the burden of unemployment and precarity.
EU Social Policy After the Pandemic: A Fragile Convergence
How much has actually changed in the social architecture of the Union after the pandemic response?
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The Moderating Role of Social Policy Regimes: Immigration and Unemployment in the EU, 2010–2019
How social policy regimes mediate the relationship between immigration and unemployment across EU member states.
How Welfare States Shape Labour Market Risk
How institutional design across welfare regimes redistributes the burden of unemployment and precarity.
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