Due to various structural pressures predictions of retrenchment and conformity of social policies have been legion, both in terms of expenditure and institutional set-up. Recent research has focused on changes in cash benefits. Comparative analyses of changes in services, the other pillar of...

During recent decades predictions of retrenchment and convergence of social policies have been legion, both in terms of expenditure and institutional set-up. Structural pressures such as trans-nationalization of capital, budgetary and financial restrictions in the European Union, negative...