Matthew Matsaganis
Biographic Data
| ID | 141591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Matsaganis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Matsaganis |
| SIGNATURE | MATSAGANIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Athens University of Economics and Business |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0369-6280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 270 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Limits of Digital Health for Primary Care Patients and Clinicians: Communication, Information Exchange, and Portal Use
Patient portals have the potential to both improve and harm patient-clinician partnerships by reshaping how health information is exchanged and how patients and providers communicate. Patients (n = 20) and primary care clinicians (n = 11) purposively sampled from clinics serving diverse New Jersey communities were interviewed. Patients distinguished two portal functions – linear information exchange and bidirectional communication – but did so in…
Has Greece Gone from Basket Case to Poster Child
After a catastrophic debt crisis and an erratic populist government in the 2010s, Greece has seen steadier governance and economic recovery in recent years, but sustainable growth remains elusive
Incidence and Distribution of Earnings Shocks: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective
Large earnings losses are likely to cause financial hardship, lower consumption, and trigger poverty and material deprivation. While the phenomenon has received significant attention in the US, it remains relatively under-researched in Europe. Our study aims to fill this gap. We examine the incidence and the distribution of earnings shocks, defined as year-on-year losses of at least 20% of gross individual earnings, in four South European countri…
Who's Afraid of the Welfare State Now?
The political economy of inflation management: The case of Greece
This article explores how the impact of the 2022–2023 inflationary episode was managed in Greece, and explains how labour market governance framed public policy responses. Greece resembles other southern European countries in the chronic weakness of its institutional preconditions for managing emerging inflationary pressures in a coordinated manner. Greece is also different, however, in that the previous two economic shocks had left a legacy of d…
Southern European Welfare Systems in Transition
This chapter examines the idea that a distinct Southern European welfare model exists within European social protection systems. It focuses on the core social protection pillars: pensions, labor market policies, social assistance, health care, social care, and family policies. The chapter looks at the reforms in welfare systems in Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Greece. In the early 1980s, Portugal and Greece still presented an underdeveloped social …
Disentangling annuities and transfers: The case of Greek retirement benefits
The aim of this paper is to estimate the relative importance of annuities and transfers in Greek retirement benefits and to assess their impact on intergenerational and intragenerational equity. We analyse a large sample of private sector workers retiring in 2008. Adopting a longitudinal approach, we compute the net present value of contributions paid and benefits received by individuals over their life course. We define the difference between th…
Safety nets in (the) crisis: The case of Greece in the 2010s
This paper deals with the question of how the social safety net in Greece responded to, and was transformed by, the social emergency of the 2010s. The outbreak of the Eurozone crisis caught Greek welfare woefully unprepared for what was to come. Thereafter, as the recession fuelled the “demand” for social protection, the austerity reduced its “supply.” Nevertheless, this is not a straightforward case of austerity predictably causing welfare retre…
Greece: The Crisis, Austerity, and the Transformation of Welfare
Manos Matsaganis provides an account of the most severe crisis of the Great Recession: that of Greece. He explains the conditions at the start of the crisis and how the situation developed. Greece was the first Euro area member to request a bailout, which was granted in return for massive fiscal consolidation and structural reforms. Matsaganis explains the bailout programme and its conditions, progress, and consequences, particularly the adverse …
Export or Perish: Can Internal Devaluation Create Enough Good Jobs in Southern Europe
During the early 2010s, creditor states and EU institutions demanded that the Southern states of the eurozone liberalise their labour markets to facilitate internal devaluation and export-led recoveries. With some variation, the Greek, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian governments complied. This article explains why such a strategy of internal devaluation within the eurozone might fail to produce adequate employment growth to put these countries on…
Income support policies and labour market reforms under austerity in Greece
Introduction One of the most surprising features of the social situation in Greece over the past few years has been the almost complete failure of the social safety net to cope with the fallout from the recession, the most severe in the euro area. Indeed, it would be no exaggeration to say that the ‘supply’ of social protection in the country fell just as the ‘demand’ – that is, the need – for it increased dramatically. During 2007–13, the Greek …
Income support policies and labour market reforms under austerity in Greece
The right(s) and minimum income in hard times: Southern and Eastern Europe compared
The paper addresses a topic still largely under-researched in comparative welfare state literature: the role of right parties in the reform of last resort safety nets. More precisely, the study investigates minimum income schemes’ reforms promoted during the Great Recession (2008–2013) by centre-right governments in three countries belonging to the European periphery: Italy, Portugal and Latvia. Despite common political orientation and increased …
The Political Economy of Austerity in Southern Europe
Europe’s response to the sovereign debt crisis in Southern Europe has been premised on the idea that these states can return to growth through internal devaluation and fiscal consolidation. This article explores the distributive consequences of that strategy in Greece, Portugal, Italy, and Spain. We argue that standard measures of poverty do not capture the deterioration in living standards as fully as anchored poverty. Moreover, we show that ine…
To the Brink and Back in Greece
[O]rdinary Greeks intuitively understood better than many outsiders that the country had little future cut off from Europe
Greek fisheries and the economic crisis: Structural analogies
The Greek economic crisis has attracted much attention during recent years, as its depth and duration have been far greater than in crises experienced elsewhere. Structural similarities and peculiarities between the Greek economy and fishery sector are identified in terms of the large number of small enterprises and artisanal vessels, as well as inefficiencies in data collection and tax compliance (unreported income or landings). These highly dif…
The Redistributive Capacity of Services in the European Union
Welfare states provide social benefits in cash and – increasingly – in kind. This chapter analyses the redistributive capacity of services, more specifically health care, education and childcare. First, the methodological issues associated with the quantification of social service delivery and the construction of a counterfactual are explored. The results show that services reduce inequality more than cash benefits do. To correctly interpret this…
The Catastrophic Greek Crisis
The failure of public institutions to rise to the occasion by preventing the economic crisis from mutating into social disaster has bred disillusionment with parliamentary democracy and brought the far right and extreme left into the political mainstream
The Distributional Impact of Austerity and the Recession in Southern Europe
Southern European welfare states are under stress. On the one hand, the recession has been causing unemployment to rise and incomes to fall. On the other hand, austerity has affected the capacity of welfare states to protect those affected. This paper assesses the distributional implications of the crisis in Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal from 2009 to 2013. Using a microsimulation model, we disentangle the first-order effects of tax–benefit po…
Poverty and Inequality during the Great Recession in Greece
The severe economic crisis that has been affecting Greece since 2009 is having an unprecedented impact in terms of job and income losses, and is widely perceived to have a comparably significant effect in terms of greater inequality and increased poverty. This article provides an early assessment of whether (and to what extent) the latter is the case. Specifically, it simulates the impact of the austerity (i.e. fiscal consolidation policies) and …
The Crisis and the Welfare State in Greece: A Complex Relationship
As every European who occasionally switches on their TV set must be aware, Greece is in the throes of a dramatic crisis. This started off in 2009 as a fiscal crisis, soon turned into a sovereign debt crisis, and finally mutated into a full-blown recession, unprecedented in depth and duration. By late 2012, the Greek economy had already been in recession for four consecutive years, and showed few signs of recovery. The latest official figures (Ban…
Towards a European Union Child Basic Income? Within and between country effects
This paper explores the within and between country distributional implications of an illustrative Child Basic Income (CBI) operated at EU level. Using EUROMOD, we establish that a universal payment of €50 per month per child aged under 6 could take 800, 000 children in this age group out of poverty. It could be financed by an EU flat tax of 0.2% on all household income, assuming that it would also be taxed nationally as income. Most member states…
Are European social safety nets tight enough? Coverage and adequacy of Minimum Income schemes in 14 EU countries
Figari F, Matsaganis M, Sutherland H. Are European social safety nets tight enough? Coverage and adequacy of Minimum Income schemes in 14 EU countries This study explored and compared the effectiveness of Minimum Income (MI) schemes for persons of working age in the European Union (EU). Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, we estimated indicators of coverage and adequacy of MI schemes in 14 EU countries. In terms of coverage, we foun…
Social policy in hard times: The case of Greece
The current Greek crisis started off in 2009 as a fiscal crisis, soon turned into a sovereign debt crisis, then mutated into a full-blown recession, unprecedented in depth and duration. The article offers an early analysis of the impact of the crisis on the labour market and the distribution of incomes, showing that the need for social protection is now much greater than ever before. It then critically reviews social policy responses in a context…
Understanding Ethnic Media: Producers, Consumers, and Societies
Preface PART I: ETHNIC MEDIA IN CONTEXT 1. What Are Ethnic Media? Introduction Defining Ethnic Media The Role of Geographic Context The Roles of Ethnic Media Globalization and the Ethnic Media Social Changes That Make Studying Ethnic Media Necessary Chapter-by-Chapter Book Overview 2. The Ethnic Media in History Emigration, Immigration, and the Ethnic Media Beginnings of the Ethnic Press in Europe Ethnic Media in the United States Ethnic Media in…
The Distributional Impact of Austerity and the Recession in Southern Europe
Southern European welfare states are under stress. On the one hand, the recession has been causing unemployment to rise and incomes to fall. On the other hand, austerity has affected the capacity of welfare states to protect those affected. This paper assesses the distributional implications of the crisis in Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal from 2009 to 2013. Using a microsimulation model, we disentangle the first-order effects of tax–benefit po…
The Political Economy of Austerity in Southern Europe
Europe’s response to the sovereign debt crisis in Southern Europe has been premised on the idea that these states can return to growth through internal devaluation and fiscal consolidation. This article explores the distributive consequences of that strategy in Greece, Portugal, Italy, and Spain. We argue that standard measures of poverty do not capture the deterioration in living standards as fully as anchored poverty. Moreover, we show that ine…
Testing the 'social dumping' hypothesis in Southern Europe: Welfare policies in Greece and Spain during the last 20 years
Recent research has shown that the traditional view of social welfare in Southern Europe as 'rudimentary' is a misreading of its distinct nature: welfare arrangements in the region do not 'lag behind' as a whole, rather they suffer from serious imbalances that cause inequities and inefficiencies. The article focuses on Greece and Spain, two countries that differ in terms of economic performance and size, but share a recent history of successful t…
Open coordination against poverty: The new EU `social inclusion process
Until the mid 1990s, the notion of Social Europe was primarily associated with the introduction of binding supranational rules aimed at safeguarding and possibly upgrading the social protection systems of the Member States. The political and institutional obstacles to such kind of rules were well known in practice and well understood in theory - especially in the wake of the negative vs. positive integration debate. But 'hard law' seemed to be th…
The welfare state and the crisis: The case of Greece
The paper examines the relationship between the severe economic crisis facing Greece and the country’s social protection system, arguing that this relationship is ambivalent. On one level, the welfare state itself has contributed in a far from trivial way to the fiscal crisis of the state, with its various failures including huge deficits in key programmes such as pensions and health. On a second level, the crisis and the measures to counter it d…
Poverty and Inequality during the Great Recession in Greece
The severe economic crisis that has been affecting Greece since 2009 is having an unprecedented impact in terms of job and income losses, and is widely perceived to have a comparably significant effect in terms of greater inequality and increased poverty. This article provides an early assessment of whether (and to what extent) the latter is the case. Specifically, it simulates the impact of the austerity (i.e. fiscal consolidation policies) and …
Export or Perish: Can Internal Devaluation Create Enough Good Jobs in Southern Europe
During the early 2010s, creditor states and EU institutions demanded that the Southern states of the eurozone liberalise their labour markets to facilitate internal devaluation and export-led recoveries. With some variation, the Greek, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian governments complied. This article explains why such a strategy of internal devaluation within the eurozone might fail to produce adequate employment growth to put these countries on…
Are European social safety nets tight enough? Coverage and adequacy of Minimum Income schemes in 14 EU countries
Figari F, Matsaganis M, Sutherland H. Are European social safety nets tight enough? Coverage and adequacy of Minimum Income schemes in 14 EU countries This study explored and compared the effectiveness of Minimum Income (MI) schemes for persons of working age in the European Union (EU). Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, we estimated indicators of coverage and adequacy of MI schemes in 14 EU countries. In terms of coverage, we foun…
Social policy in hard times: The case of Greece
The current Greek crisis started off in 2009 as a fiscal crisis, soon turned into a sovereign debt crisis, then mutated into a full-blown recession, unprecedented in depth and duration. The article offers an early analysis of the impact of the crisis on the labour market and the distribution of incomes, showing that the need for social protection is now much greater than ever before. It then critically reviews social policy responses in a context…
Mending Nets in the South: Anti‐poverty Policies in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain
The marginal role of social assistance and the absence of minimum income programmes have long been thought to constitute defining characteristics of the southern European model of welfare. Nevertheless, over the 1990s significant innovations in this field have taken place. The paper aims to contribute to the analysis of recent developments by critically examining the experience of anti‐poverty policies in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. It is …
Yet Another Piece of Pension Reform in Greece
The recent pension legislation (Law 3029/2002) concluded an entire season, inaugurated six years earlier when a new ‘modernizing’ government took office with pension reform high on the agenda. The legislation, though successful in temporarily defusing the issue, can only be described as timid and ineffective if judged against the magnitude of the problem as originally diagnosed. In order to put this last episode in context, the article describes …
The right(s) and minimum income in hard times: Southern and Eastern Europe compared
The paper addresses a topic still largely under-researched in comparative welfare state literature: the role of right parties in the reform of last resort safety nets. More precisely, the study investigates minimum income schemes’ reforms promoted during the Great Recession (2008–2013) by centre-right governments in three countries belonging to the European periphery: Italy, Portugal and Latvia. Despite common political orientation and increased …
Reforming Family Transfers in Southern Europe: Is there a Role for Universal Child Benefits
The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where public assistance to low-income families with children is often meagre or not available at all. The paper examines the effect of income transfers to families in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal using a benefit-tax model. The distributional impact of actual programmes is shown to be weak, hence the scope for reform great. As an illustration, the European benefit…
Existe una "malla de seguridad" en la Europa del sur? La lucha contra la pobreza y la exclusión en España, Grecia, Italia y Portugal
El papel marginal de la asistencia social y la ausencia de programas de rentas mínimas han sido considerados como rasgos definitorios del modelo de bienestar de la Europa del Sur. Sin embargo, a lo largo de la década de los años 90 se han producido innovaciones significativas en este campo. El artículo lleva a cabo un análisis de los últimos desarrollos realizando un examen crítico de las experiencias de políticas contra la pobreza en España, Gre…
The 2000 U.S. Presidential Debate Versus the 2000 Greek Prime Minister Debate: A Comparative Analysis
The prevalence of televised debates is growing in popularity among democracies. This study examines the similarities and differences in format, style, journalistic involvement, and issues covered in the first presidential debate of the 2000 U.S. election campaign in October in Boston and the Greek Prime Minister debate of March 2000 held in Athens. A major theme is the dynamics of establishing the rules governing the debate in Greece and the role…
Safety nets in (the) crisis: The case of Greece in the 2010s
This paper deals with the question of how the social safety net in Greece responded to, and was transformed by, the social emergency of the 2010s. The outbreak of the Eurozone crisis caught Greek welfare woefully unprepared for what was to come. Thereafter, as the recession fuelled the “demand” for social protection, the austerity reduced its “supply.” Nevertheless, this is not a straightforward case of austerity predictably causing welfare retre…
Non‐Take Up of Social Benefits in Greece and Spain
Even though interest in non‐take up of social benefits is considerable in many European countries, the topic is under‐researched in southern Europe. This article provides preliminary estimates of the extent of non‐take up of two pairs of means‐tested retirement benefits in Greece and Spain. The benefits examined are: (1) the minimum pension supplements pensioner social solidarity benefit EKAΣ and complementos por mínimos; and (2) the social pensi…
The Limits of Selectivity as a Recipe for Welfare Reform: The Case of Greece
Selectivity emerged as the core of a new social policy paradigm in Greece when a new 'modernising' government took office in 1996. Though it was adopted energetically, its real impact eventually proved negligible, except for an initial flutter of activity. The article argues that its failure as a recipe for welfare reform was inevitable. The nature of social protection arrangements in Greece severely constrained the scope for selectivity, while t…
Maternal mobility and infant mortality in Greece: A regional analysis
Is health insurance in Greece in need of reform
This paper aims to assess the relationship between insurance contributions and health benefits in Greece by using information from sickness funds' accounts. The paper argues that the fragmentation of social health insurance, and the particular ways in which sickness funds' financial services are organized, are a major source of inequity and are grossly inefficient. The survival of these systems in the 1990s cannot be explained except on grounds o…
The trouble with the Euro-Stipendium
High infant mortality in the big cities of Greece
Is health insurance in Greece in need of reform
This paper aims to assess the relationship between insurance contributions and health benefits in Greece by using information from sickness funds' accounts. The paper argues that the fragmentation of social health insurance, and the particular ways in which sickness funds' financial services are organized, are a major source of inequity and are grossly inefficient. The survival of these systems in the 1990s cannot be explained except on grounds o…
High infant mortality in the big cities of Greece
Maternal mobility and infant mortality in Greece: A regional analysis
Testing the 'social dumping' hypothesis in Southern Europe: Welfare policies in Greece and Spain during the last 20 years
Recent research has shown that the traditional view of social welfare in Southern Europe as 'rudimentary' is a misreading of its distinct nature: welfare arrangements in the region do not 'lag behind' as a whole, rather they suffer from serious imbalances that cause inequities and inefficiencies. The article focuses on Greece and Spain, two countries that differ in terms of economic performance and size, but share a recent history of successful t…
The trouble with the Euro-Stipendium
The 2000 U.S. Presidential Debate Versus the 2000 Greek Prime Minister Debate: A Comparative Analysis
The prevalence of televised debates is growing in popularity among democracies. This study examines the similarities and differences in format, style, journalistic involvement, and issues covered in the first presidential debate of the 2000 U.S. election campaign in October in Boston and the Greek Prime Minister debate of March 2000 held in Athens. A major theme is the dynamics of establishing the rules governing the debate in Greece and the role…
Open coordination against poverty: The new EU `social inclusion process
Until the mid 1990s, the notion of Social Europe was primarily associated with the introduction of binding supranational rules aimed at safeguarding and possibly upgrading the social protection systems of the Member States. The political and institutional obstacles to such kind of rules were well known in practice and well understood in theory - especially in the wake of the negative vs. positive integration debate. But 'hard law' seemed to be th…
Yet Another Piece of Pension Reform in Greece
The recent pension legislation (Law 3029/2002) concluded an entire season, inaugurated six years earlier when a new ‘modernizing’ government took office with pension reform high on the agenda. The legislation, though successful in temporarily defusing the issue, can only be described as timid and ineffective if judged against the magnitude of the problem as originally diagnosed. In order to put this last episode in context, the article describes …
Mending Nets in the South: Anti‐poverty Policies in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain
The marginal role of social assistance and the absence of minimum income programmes have long been thought to constitute defining characteristics of the southern European model of welfare. Nevertheless, over the 1990s significant innovations in this field have taken place. The paper aims to contribute to the analysis of recent developments by critically examining the experience of anti‐poverty policies in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. It is …
Existe una "malla de seguridad" en la Europa del sur? La lucha contra la pobreza y la exclusión en España, Grecia, Italia y Portugal
El papel marginal de la asistencia social y la ausencia de programas de rentas mínimas han sido considerados como rasgos definitorios del modelo de bienestar de la Europa del Sur. Sin embargo, a lo largo de la década de los años 90 se han producido innovaciones significativas en este campo. El artículo lleva a cabo un análisis de los últimos desarrollos realizando un examen crítico de las experiencias de políticas contra la pobreza en España, Gre…
Model otvorene koordinacije protiv siromaštva: Novi “proces socijalnog uključivanja” Europske unije
Child Poverty and Family Transfers in Southern Europe
The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where the subsidiary role of the State in matters of family policy has implied that programmes of public assistance to poor families with children are often meagre or not available at all. The paper examines the effect of family transfers (used broadly to include contributory family allowances, non-contributory child benefits and tax credits or allowances) on child po…
Individual Participation in Organizational Information Commons: The Impact of Team Level Social Influence and Technology-Specific Competence
Journal Article Individual Participation in Organizational Information Commons: The Impact of Team Level Social Influence and Technology-Specific Competence Get access Yu Yuan, Yu Yuan 1Cornell University 7Department of Communication, 308 Kennedy Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Janet Fulk, Janet Fulk 2University of Southern California Search for other works by thi…
The Limits of Selectivity as a Recipe for Welfare Reform: The Case of Greece
Selectivity emerged as the core of a new social policy paradigm in Greece when a new 'modernising' government took office in 1996. Though it was adopted energetically, its real impact eventually proved negligible, except for an initial flutter of activity. The article argues that its failure as a recipe for welfare reform was inevitable. The nature of social protection arrangements in Greece severely constrained the scope for selectivity, while t…
Reforming Family Transfers in Southern Europe: Is there a Role for Universal Child Benefits
The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where public assistance to low-income families with children is often meagre or not available at all. The paper examines the effect of income transfers to families in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal using a benefit-tax model. The distributional impact of actual programmes is shown to be weak, hence the scope for reform great. As an illustration, the European benefit…
Union Structures and Pension Outcomes in Greece
Even though Greek pensions are particularly unsustainable and inequitable, recent attempts at significant reform have ended in failure, mostly because of union opposition. The article draws on research into the competing role of narrow versus encompassing interests, in order to analyse union policy on pensions in the light of membership composition. It finds evidence of a severe bias of representation in terms of gender, age/cohort, ethnic origin…
Handbook of Quality of Life in the Enlarged European Union ‐ Edited by Jens Alber, Tony Fahey and Chiara Saraceno
Non‐Take Up of Social Benefits in Greece and Spain
Even though interest in non‐take up of social benefits is considerable in many European countries, the topic is under‐researched in southern Europe. This article provides preliminary estimates of the extent of non‐take up of two pairs of means‐tested retirement benefits in Greece and Spain. The benefits examined are: (1) the minimum pension supplements pensioner social solidarity benefit EKAΣ and complementos por mínimos; and (2) the social pensi…
Understanding Ethnic Media: Producers, Consumers, and Societies
Preface PART I: ETHNIC MEDIA IN CONTEXT 1. What Are Ethnic Media? Introduction Defining Ethnic Media The Role of Geographic Context The Roles of Ethnic Media Globalization and the Ethnic Media Social Changes That Make Studying Ethnic Media Necessary Chapter-by-Chapter Book Overview 2. The Ethnic Media in History Emigration, Immigration, and the Ethnic Media Beginnings of the Ethnic Press in Europe Ethnic Media in the United States Ethnic Media in…
The welfare state and the crisis: The case of Greece
The paper examines the relationship between the severe economic crisis facing Greece and the country’s social protection system, arguing that this relationship is ambivalent. On one level, the welfare state itself has contributed in a far from trivial way to the fiscal crisis of the state, with its various failures including huge deficits in key programmes such as pensions and health. On a second level, the crisis and the measures to counter it d…
Towards a European Union Child Basic Income? Within and between country effects
This paper explores the within and between country distributional implications of an illustrative Child Basic Income (CBI) operated at EU level. Using EUROMOD, we establish that a universal payment of €50 per month per child aged under 6 could take 800, 000 children in this age group out of poverty. It could be financed by an EU flat tax of 0.2% on all household income, assuming that it would also be taxed nationally as income. Most member states…
Are European social safety nets tight enough? Coverage and adequacy of Minimum Income schemes in 14 EU countries
Figari F, Matsaganis M, Sutherland H. Are European social safety nets tight enough? Coverage and adequacy of Minimum Income schemes in 14 EU countries This study explored and compared the effectiveness of Minimum Income (MI) schemes for persons of working age in the European Union (EU). Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, we estimated indicators of coverage and adequacy of MI schemes in 14 EU countries. In terms of coverage, we foun…
Social policy in hard times: The case of Greece
The current Greek crisis started off in 2009 as a fiscal crisis, soon turned into a sovereign debt crisis, then mutated into a full-blown recession, unprecedented in depth and duration. The article offers an early analysis of the impact of the crisis on the labour market and the distribution of incomes, showing that the need for social protection is now much greater than ever before. It then critically reviews social policy responses in a context…
The Crisis and the Welfare State in Greece: A Complex Relationship
As every European who occasionally switches on their TV set must be aware, Greece is in the throes of a dramatic crisis. This started off in 2009 as a fiscal crisis, soon turned into a sovereign debt crisis, and finally mutated into a full-blown recession, unprecedented in depth and duration. By late 2012, the Greek economy had already been in recession for four consecutive years, and showed few signs of recovery. The latest official figures (Ban…
The Redistributive Capacity of Services in the European Union
Welfare states provide social benefits in cash and – increasingly – in kind. This chapter analyses the redistributive capacity of services, more specifically health care, education and childcare. First, the methodological issues associated with the quantification of social service delivery and the construction of a counterfactual are explored. The results show that services reduce inequality more than cash benefits do. To correctly interpret this…
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