Tag: Europe

Subsidising Silence: How Policy Ideas Entrench Italy’s Use of Employment Subsidies

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This blog post is based on an article published in the Journal of Social Policy by Roberto Rizza, Dario Raspanti, and Francesco Albanese. If you ask policymakers in Italy why job creation remains weak, the answer often sounds familiar: labour costs are too high. Taxes and social contributions, it is argued, discourage firms from hiring… Continue reading Subsidising Silence: How Policy Ideas Entrench Italy’s Use of Employment Subsidies

Amsterdam and the New Frontiers of Welfare State Change: How Cities are Shaping the Social Investment State

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This blog is based on an article published in the Journal of Social Policy by David Bokhorst, Meike Bokhorst, and Tijn Croon. The politics of welfare state change is often examined through ideological divides between left and right, or through policy feedback mechanisms. However, our recent paper, published in the Journal of Social Policy, offers… Continue reading Amsterdam and the New Frontiers of Welfare State Change: How Cities are Shaping the Social Investment State