The future of welfare in a global europe / Bernd Marin (ed.).

Table of Contents;

Introduction: The future of welfare in a global Europe
Part I: From warfare to welfare and workfare.

Part II: Demographic metabolism, new measures of age and ageing, and the Active Ageing Index (AAI) 2012-2015.
Demographic metabolism: Enabling future generations.
An easily understood and intergenerationallly equitable
Normal pension age

Part III: Towards a human investment state : future-able education, skill formation, and economic-financial literacy as prerequisites of
sustainable welfare society.
Social Investment, skill and Inequality
Hard choices in education and welfare state policies
Skills, stakes and clout: early human capital foundations for Europeans welfare futures

Part IV: Class, generation, gender, and age cleavages in ageing societies.
Cleavages in ageing societies: generation, age, or class?
Women's work and pensions.
Drawing lessons from Central and Eastern Europe.
Reallocation of resources across age in a comparative European setting.
The National Transfer Accounts project.

Part V: Too sick to work? Disability, and happiness, in stressful and long-life societies.
Too sick to work? The role of mental ill-health as a driver of inactivity and long-term unemployment.
Happily ever after. The role of welfare policies.

Part VI: Fragile welfare sustainability : two model cases in point.
How sustainable is the Swedish model?
Plea for an 'Agenda 2020'
Part VII: No European social model in Europe, or towards a European social union?
No 'European social model' in Europe?
A polemic statement of disappointment by a critical proponent
The case for a European social union.
From muddling through to a sense of common purpose.