Table Of Contents:
List of Figures vii
List of Tables ix
List of Contributors xiii
Preface xvii
Acknowledgements xix

1 Welfare to Work in Practice: Introduction and Overview 1(8)

Peter Saunders

2 Protection to Activation: The Apotheosis of Work 9(14)

Neil Gilbert

3 Work as Welfare? Lone Mothers, Social Security and Employment 23(20)

Jane Millar

4 Bridging the Welfare to Work Divide: Economic and Social Participation among Income Support Recipients in Australia 43(24)

Peter Saunders

5 The Role of Workfare in the Scandinavian Model of Social Security: Soft Work Incentives, Skill Upgrading or Quality of Life Improvement for the Disadvantaged? 67(18)

Lisbeth Pedersen and J酶rgen S酶ndergaard

6 In-work Benefits: Curing Unemployment among the Low-skilled in Germany 85(22)

Martin Werding

7 Financial Incentives and Mothers' Employment: A Comparative Perspective 107(22)

Jonathan Bradshaw, Naomi Finch and Emese Mayhew

8 Reforming the Passive Welfare State: Belgium's New Income Arrangements to Make Work Pay in International Perspective 129(26)

Lieve De Lathouwer

9 Dilemmas in Disability Activation and How Scandinavians Try to Live with Them 155(18)

Einar Overbye
10 Personalised Employment Services for Disability Benefits Recipients: Are Comparisons Useful? 173(14)

Patricia Thornton and Anne Corden
11 Who Becomes a Disability Benefit Recipient in Sweden? 187(24)

Sisko Bergendorff, Marcela Cohen-Birman, Kristian Nyberg, Peter Skogman Thoursie, Annika Sund茅n and Ingemar Svensson
12 Returning the Long-term Sick-listed to Work: The Effects of Educational Measures and Employer Separations in Denmark 211(28)

Jan H酶gelund and Anders Holm
13 Disability Benefits and Unemployment Patterns in Estonia 239(16)

Orsolya Szirko
Index 255