Bea Cantillon, PhD, is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp Belgium.

Tim Goedemé, PhD, MSc, is a Research Coordinator at the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp in Belgium and Senior Research Officer at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

John Hills, DLitt, MSocSc, is Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom.

Bea Cantillon
Tim Goedemé
John Hills

Marco Arlotti
Anikó Bernát
Barbara Binder
Réka Branyiczki
Elena Carillo Alvarez
Diego Collado
Pieter Cools
Axel Cronert
Irene Cussó Parcerisas
Anne Franziskus
András Gábos
Anne-Catherine Guio
István György Tóth
Tine Hufkens
Eleni Kanavitsa
Alexandros Karakitsios
Yuri Kazepov
Lane Kenworthy
Marianna Kopasz
Bernhard Leubolt
Chrysa Leventi
Chris Luigjes
Lauri Mäkinen
Sarah Marchal
Manos Matsaganis
Geranda Notten
Andreas Novy
Stijn Oosterlynck
Joakim Palme
Alari Paulus
Tess Penne
Jordi Riera Romaní
Veli-Matti Ritakallio
Tatiana Saruis
Bori Simonovits
Bérénice Storms
Holly Sutherland
Péter Szivós
Iva Tasseva
Dieter Vandelannoote
Karel Van den Bosch
Frank Vandenbroucke
Gerlinde Verbist
Florian Wukovitsch

"Poverty might be even more widespread--and differently distributed across countries and household types within the EU--than what appears by the usual 'at risk of poverty' indicator. Exploring different methodological approaches, this book presents a complex view of what happened where before and during the Great Recession, as well as the differential ability of individual countries to protect the poor through their policy choices. The lessons these analyses teach at the substantive and methodological level offer crucial suggestions on how progress might be achieved at the national and EU level in granting a decent income to both workers' and jobless people's households." -- Chiara Saraceno, PhD, Professor Emerita, WZB Berlin Social Science Center; honorary fellow, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin

"With European welfare states under economic pressure, policymakers have taken their eyes off the poverty reduction ball, with the inevitable result that poverty has worsened as social protection provisions have been allowed to erode. This book by some of Europe's leading social policy scholars vividly illustrates how top-quality research can highlight social issues, provide the evidence to better understand them, and point to appropriate policy responses. It is a timely reminder of the important role that a decent income safety net can play in promoting well-being and setting the social foundations for sustainable economic prosperity." --Peter Saunders, PhD, DipEcThy, Professor, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney; President, Foundation for International Studies on Social Security