Drawing on the analysis in MS9, this paper summarises the policy relevant lessons on what drives and hinders institutional change in services for people with disabilities in EU Member States, and offers some recommendations on how such changes may be facilitated. The focus is mainly on the...

This paper makes two contributions to the literature. First, by employing a macro-level institutional dataset on benefit levels for social assistance (SA) and minimum income protection (MIP) in 22 European countries in the period 1990–2013, I show that the adequacy of income support for...

In den letzten Jahrzehnten konnte ein deutlicher Anstieg von in-work poverty in Europa beobachtet werden. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit lag in der Identifikation verschiedener Einflussfaktoren auf der personenbezogenen Ebene und struktureller Rahmenbedingungen des Wohlfahrtsstaates und Arbeitsmarktes...