Young People and Social Policy in Europe

1. Introduction: Young People and Social Policy in Europe: New and Old Transitions; Myra Hamilton, Lorenza Antonucci and Steven Roberts 2. Constructing a Theory of Youth and Social Policy; Lorenza Antonucci, Myra Hamilton and Steven Roberts PART I: PRECARITY, SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND YOUTH POLICY IN EUROPE 3. The Complex Nature of Youth Poverty and Deprivation in Europe; Eldin Fahmy 4. At risk of deskilling and trapped by passion: a picture of precarious highly-educated young workers in Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom; Annalisa Murgia and Barbara Poggio 5. Social exclusion, risk and the UK youth labour market; Clive Sealey 6. Young people at work in Greece before and after the crisis;Lefteris Kretsos 7. The impacts of employment instability on transitions to adulthood: The mileuristas young adults in Spain; Alessandro Gentile PART II: CHANGING TRANSITIONS, WELFARE SOURCES AND SOCIAL POLICIES 8. Labour market risks and sources of welfare among European youth in times of crisis; Lara Maestripieri and Stefania Sabatinelli 9 Have Nordic welfare regimes adapted to changes in transitions to adulthood? Unemployment insurance and social assistance among young people in the Nordic welfare states; Anna Angelin, Timo Kauppinen, Thomas Lorentzen, Olof Bäckman, Pasi Moisio, Espen Dahl, Tapio Salonen 10. The Dualisation of Social Policies towards Young People in France: Between Familism and Activation; Tom Chevalier and Bruno Palier 11. Young adults' transitions to residential independence in Britain: the role of social and housing policy; Ann Berrington and Juliet Stone 12. Life-course policy and the transition from school to work in Germany; Walter R. Heinz 13. Youth transitions, precarity and inequality and the future of social policy in Europe; Lorenza Antonucci and Myra Hamilton