Will the crisis be able to bring about a change in the current supply-side social investment agenda? Constraints and opportunities for a new long-term investment strategies towards social investment goals

Despite its crucial contribution to minimising the social costs of the crisis started in 2008, the future of the European Social model is seriously under threat from the aftermath of the sovereign debt crisis. Moreover, increasing budget constraints are limiting the potential for job creation in public services, where wages are higher than those offered by private providers, both profi t-making and non-profi t organisations. The aim of this chapter is to analyse the emergent relationship between social investment-based policies and the employment growth in white jobs