Description:
Social investment policies have enjoyed prominence during recent welfare reforms across the OECD world, and yet there is insufficient long-term strategy for their success.
Reviewing labour market, family and education policies, this edited collection analyses the emergence of social investment policies in both Europe and East Asia. Adopting a life course perspective and examining both public and private investments, this book addresses key contemporary policy issues including care, learning, work, social mobility and inequalities.
Providing original observations, this seminal text explores the roads and barriers towards effective social investment policies, derives practical social policy implications and highlights important lessons for future policymaking.
Brief description: Soohyun Christine Lee is Korea Foundation Assistant Professor in Korean and East Asian Political Economy in the Department of European and International Studies at King's College London.
Review Quotes:
"An insightful analysis of the challenges modern welfare states face with clear formulation of policy implications and recommendations - an extremely valuable book for both academics and policy-makers in Europe and East Asia." Yeon Myung Kim, Chung-Ang University, South Korea and former Senior Secretary to the President for Social Policy
"A powerful, illuminating analysis of social investment policies across the lifecycle - this timely and useful volume is a must-read for those interested in a balanced perspective on recent developments in social policy." Neil Gilbert, University of California, Berkeley
"This highly informative volume offers an innovative focus on cross-generational dimensions of social investment and on implications of reliance on public versus private efforts." Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina