abstract: 'New welfare has been prominent in recent European social policy debates.

  It involves mobilising more people into paid work, improving human

  capital and ensuring fairer access to opportunities. This programme is

  attractive to business (more workers, better human capital and reduced

  social conflict to enhance productivity and profitability) and to

  citizens (more widely accessible job-opportunities with better rewards):

  a relatively low-cost approach to the difficulties governments face in

  maintaining support and meeting social goals as inequalities widen.

  The generalmove towards `newwelfare'' gathered momentum during the past

  two decades, given extra impetus by the 2007-09 recession and subsequent

  stagnation. While employment rates rose during the prosperous years

  before the crisis, there was no commensurate reduction in poverty. Over

  the same period the share of economic growth returned to labour fell,

  labour markets were increasingly de-regulated and inequality increased.

  This raises the question of whether new welfare''s economic goals (higher

  employment, improved human capital) and social goals (better job quality

  and incomes) may come into conflict.

  This paper examines data for seventeen European countries over the

  period 2001 to 2007. It shows that new welfare is much more successful

  at achieving higher employment than at reducing poverty, even during

  prosperity, and that the approach pays insufficient attention to

  structural factors, such as the falling wage share, and to institutional

  issues, such as labour market deregulation.'
affiliation: 'Taylor-Gooby, P (Corresponding Author), Univ Kent, SSPSSR, Canterbury
  CT2 7NF, Kent, England.

  Taylor-Gooby, Peter; Otto, Adeline, Univ Kent, SSPSSR, Canterbury CT2 7NF, Kent,
  England.

  Gumy, Julia M., Univ Bristol, Sch Policy Studies, Bristol BS8 1TZ, Avon, England.'
author: Taylor-Gooby, Peter and Gumy, Julia M. and Otto, Adeline
author-email: 'p.f.taylor-gooby@kent.ac.uk

  J.Gumy@kent.ac.uk

  A.Otto@kent.ac.uk'
author_list:
- family: Taylor-Gooby
  given: Peter
- family: Gumy
  given: Julia M.
- family: Otto
  given: Adeline
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1017/S0047279414000403
eissn: 1469-7823
files: []
issn: 0047-2794
journal: JOURNAL OF SOCIAL POLICY
keywords-plus: SOCIAL INVESTMENT STATE; EMPLOYMENT; POLITICS; IMPACT
language: English
month: JAN
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '66'
orcid-numbers: 'Otto, Adeline/0000-0002-1595-1672

  Gumy, Julia/0000-0001-8208-0080'
pages: 83-104
papis_id: e26855a801c9ab3ca8591926a6053326
ref: Taylorgooby2015cannew
researcherid-numbers: 'Taylor-Gooby, Peter F/A-6013-2009

  Otto, Adeline/AAO-5109-2021

  '
times-cited: '29'
title: Can `New Welfare' Address Poverty through More and Better Jobs?
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000352019300005
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '38'
volume: '44'
web-of-science-categories: Public Administration; Social Issues; Social Work
year: '2015'