We are living in a long transitional period and a paradigm shift that started well before the financial crisis of 2007, one that is very likely to last for a long time. Therefore we must quickly learn how to live well in the world as it is today, including the realm of work. We need to learn a...

Too weak or needy? Social Work in Europe There are two tendencies in present public discussions. Social problems are seen to have their causes in the individual, and are thus not a problem of socio-economic inequality. Consequently, in Europe we find an increasing policy of self-activation and...

This paper summarizes our recent research on evaluating the distributional consequences of social programs. This research advances the economic policy evaluation literature beyond estimating assorted mean impacts to estimate distributions of outcomes generated by different policies and determine...