Book review: The Young and the Elderly at Risk, Individual Outcomes and Contemporary Policy Challenges in European Societies
| Date | 01 March 2018 |
| DOI | 10.1177/1388262718760914 |
| Author | Filip Bojić |
| Published date | 01 March 2018 |
| Subject Matter | Book reviews |
and the level of inequality across countries, no evidence of trade-offs between equality and jobs
was found.
The originality in this collection of welfare regime studies and comparative political
economy lies in the fact that it takes a step further in the discussions over how institutions shaping
the European social models – that is emp loyment relations, social policy an d skill formation
regimes – jointly influence the labour markets’ functioning. It does this by looking at the momen-
tous historical developmen ts over a period punctuated by the tw o crises from a comparative
perspective and by using empirical information from the case studies in order to elucidate how
social models and crises interact and the nature of their dynamics.
This book can be recommended to scholars and students of different disciplines, from political
sciences and law to all strands of economic and social research. It is an indispensable and timely
tool for all EU and domestic policy makers interested in shaping the future direction of the
evolution of the European social models. The book could be also very useful for all those who
are eager to understand the social dimension of the euro crisis.
Author biography
Effrosyni Bakirtzi is Doctoral Fellow at the Joint Research Graduate School on Social Human
Rights, University of Kassel and University of Applied Sciences of Fulda. She has a degree in law
and a postgraduate degree in international legal studies from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
in Greece and a second postgraduate degree in law from Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.
She is currently in the final year of her doctoral studies investigating the relationship between
social human rights and austerity in Europe and works at the Institute for Labour Law at Goethe
University, where she conducts research in the field of comparative labour law. Her main research
interests include international, European and comparative labour, social security law and human
rights law.
Iona Salagean, Catalina Lomos and Anne Hartung (eds.) The Young and the Elderly at Risk,Individual
Outcomes and Contemporary Policy Challenges in European Societies, Intersentia, Cambridge – Antwerp
– Portland, 2015, XVIIIþ256 pp., ISBN 978-1-78068-343-0 (paperback)
Reviewed by: Filip Bojic
´,University of Belgrade, Serbia
DOI: 10.1177/1388262718760914
A group of authors from prestigious universities and research centres (Tilburg University, KU
Leuven, the Rural Economy Research Centre in Dublin, Institute for Research on Socio-Economic
Inequalities, the National Statistical Institute of Luxembourg, the Belgian Federal Planning
Bureau, etc.), decided to tackle a very topical and important issue relating to the young and the
elderly, which has a major impact on the majority of the European countries, and, as a result of
their comprehensive and thorough research, have produced The Young and the Elderly at Risk,
Individual Outcomes and Contemporary Policy Challenges in European Societies. The book
focuses on the position of the young and the elderly, as the most vulnerable groups in society,
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