Chapter 1 A New Dawn for Minimum Income Protection?

Chapter 2 Struggle for Life: Social Assistance Benefits, 1992–2009

Chapter 3 Mind the Gap: Net Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers in the EU and the US

Chapter 4 Child Poverty as a Government Priority: Child Benefit Packages for Working Families, 1992–2009

Chapter 5 Minimum Income Protection for Europe’s Elderly: What and How Much has been Guaranteed during the 2000s?

Chapter 6 From Universalism to Selectivity: Old Wine in New Bottles for Child Benefits in Europe and Other Countries

Chapter 7 Categorical Differentiation in the Light of Deservingness Perceptions: Institutional Structures of Minimum Income Protection for Immigrants and for the Disabled

Chapter 8 Origin and Genesis of Activation Policies in ‘Old’ Europe: Towards a Balanced Approach?

Chapter 10 Minimum Social Protection in the CEE/CIS Countries: The Failure of a Model

Chapter 11 The EU and Minimum Income Protection: Clarifying the Policy Conundrum