The Impact of European Employment Strategy in Greece and Portugal

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Sotirios Zartaloudis

   Pages 1-21

3. The European Employment Strategy and National Employment Policies

   • Sotirios Zartaloudis

   Pages 22-41

4. Theoretical Framework

   • Sotirios Zartaloudis

   Pages 42-56

5. Public Employment Service’s Reform in Greece: Following the EU Money?

   • Sotirios Zartaloudis

   Pages 57-73

6. Reforming the Portuguese PES: Europeanization through Soft Law Empowerment?

   • Sotirios Zartaloudis

   Pages 74-87

7. Tracing the Europeanization of Greek Employment Policy with Regard to Gender Equality Promotion: Following the ESF Money?

   • Sotirios Zartaloudis

   Pages 88-107

8. Gender Equality Promotion in Portuguese Employment Policy: Europeanization through Domestic Empowerment

   • Sotirios Zartaloudis

   Pages 108-131

9. Incorporating Flexicurity in Greek Employment Policy: From a Promising Start to a Melancholic End

   • Sotirios Zartaloudis

   Pages 132-143

10. Incorporating Flexicurity in Portuguese Employment Policy: Europeanization through Stealth?

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    Pages 144-156

11. Conclusions

    • Sotirios Zartaloudis

    Pages 157-177

12. Back Matter

    Pages 178-220

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Through the new use of new empirical evidence derived from analysing employment services, gender equality policies and flexicurity in Greece and Portugal, this book provides compelling new insights into how European Employment Strategy (EES) can influence the domestic employment policy of European Union member states.

• employment
• employment policy
• European Employment Strategy
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• gender
• Policy

• Department of Politics, History and IR, Loughborough University, UK

  Sotirios Zartaloudis

Sotirios Zartaloudis is Lecturer in Politics at the Department of Politics, History and International Relations at Loughborough University, UK, where he has been since September 2013. Previously, he was Lecturer in International Politics at the Department of Politics, University of Manchester, UK. He holds a PhD in European Studies which he obtained from the London School of Economics.

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