The paradox of the social investment state: growth, employment and poverty in the Lisbon era

By B. Cantillon. 2011

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations

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Behind and beyond the (head count) employment rate (2016, neutral): “The little association between household jobless rates and relative income poverty ratios that has been observed by recent studies indicates that what matters is not whether at least one household member works, but how much all members work (de Beer, 2007; Frazer and Marlier, 2010; Ponthieux, 2010; ”
What use is ‘social investment’? (2013, background): “…al. (2012), the social investment strategy in implementation has been criticized as potentially or actually ignoring today’s poor and increasing poverty as spending is rechanneled to activation from income support, and focused on cost-containment (see, for example, Barbier, 2012; Cantillon, 2011).”
The Quiet Paradigm Revolution of Social Investment (2015, background): “Probably the fiercest critique is from Cantillon (2011), who argues that the social investment paradigm is plagued by perverse “Matthew Effects”, with the middle class disproportionally benefiting from social investments at the expense of the worse off.”
Who benefits? The social distribution of subsidized childcare in Sweden and Flanders (2012, background): “In some countries this took place amidst (and contributed to) a shift in social expenditures from ‘passive’ cash-related benefits to ‘activating’ non-cash services (Cantillon, 2011).”
Lone parents, poverty and policy in the European Union (2012, background): “Cantillon (2009, 2011) finds that, across the EU-27, relative income poverty tends to be lower in countries with higher GDP per capita.”
Three Shortcomings of the Social Investment Perspective (2013, background): “At the European level, the basic principles were diffused through the Lisbon Agenda in 2000 and in its subsequent EU2020 strategy (Cantillon, 2011; Daly, 2012; Peña-Casas, 2012).”
Disappointing poverty trends: is the social investment state to blame? (2011, methodology): “…on an explanation for the failure that is substantive rather than methodological: the transition from the old distributive welfare state to a new social investment state is more difficult than expected, and this is at least in part responsible for disappointing poverty trends (Cantillon, 2011).”
Putting the Child-Centred Investment Strategy to the Test: Evidence for the EU27: (2013, background): “Incrementally at first, but more explicitly since the mid-90s, a common focus on increasing employment, human capital investment and cost containment has been developed which was underpinned by European discourse and policy (Hemerijck, 2011a; Cantillon, 2011).”
Counteracting material deprivation: The role of social assistance in Europe (2012, background): “Still, it should be recognized that the EU approach adopted for social inclusion has yet proved unsuccessful to fight poverty (Cantillon, 2011).”