How Policies & Institutions Shaped Welfare Consequences of the Great Recession in Europe
This talk surveys and analyses welfare consequences of the Great Recession in Europe and shows how the burdens of the crisis were shared, based on wide-ranging comparative studies of 30 countries and deeper analyses of 9 country cases in the book Welfare and the Great Recession: A Comparative Study (Oxford, 2019).

The approach is grounded in classical theories about crisis responses and relates changing financial hardship to institutional characteristics, such as welfare regimes and welfare generosity, as well as to policy reactions during the crisis period (stimulus versus austerity, social protection emphasis and redistribution). The study shows the importance of the welfare state and government policies for sheltering populations against level of living consequences of serious economic contraction and for distributing the burdens in a crisis situation.
Date: 6 February 2020, 16:15 (Thursday, 3rd week, Hilary 2020)
Venue: 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Venue Details: Violet Butler Room
Speaker: Professor Stefán Ólafsson (University of Iceland)
Organising department: Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Organiser: Professor Mary Daly (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: events@spi.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Austerity and Beyond? Oxford Institute of Social Policy Hilary Term seminar series
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Booking required?: Not required
Booking url: https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/events
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Ruth Moore