L. Antonucci & M. Hamilton 
Young People and Social Policy in Europe [PDF ebook] 
Dealing with Risk, Inequality and Precarity in Times of Crisis

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

Anna Angelin, Lund University, Sweden Olof Bäckman, Stockholm University, Sweden Ann Berrington, University of Southampton, UK Tom Chevalier, Sciences Po Paris, France Espen Dahl, Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway Eldin Fahmy, University of Bristol, UK Alessandro Gentile, University of Zaragoza, Spain Walter R. Heinz, University of Bremen, Germany Timo Kauppinen, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland Lefteris Kretsos, University of Greenwich, UK Thomas Lorentzen, University of Bergen, Norway Lara Maestripieri, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Pasi Moisio, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland Annalisa Murgia, University of Trento, Italy Bruno Palier, Centre d’études Européennes, France Barbara Poggio, University of Trento, Italy Stefania Sabatinelli, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Tapio Salonen, Malmö University, Sweden Clive Sealey, University of Worcester, UK Juliet Stone, University of Southampton, UK