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While mature welfare states are being trimmed and privatized, new social welfare arrangements are implemented in formerly communist and newly industrialized countries. The papers in this volume bring together these different worlds, but also different academic approaches. Micro-economic analyses of social insurance and welfare systems are joined with broader political descriptions of social policy in such disparate regions as Scandinavia, China, Italy, Poland and South Africa. It seeks to provide the reader with a sense of the fundamental problem of finding a social welfare system that fits specific economic and cultural conditions.
| ISBN | 1840141565 | | Pages | 420 | | ISBN13 | 9781840141566
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 001 | | Publisher | Ashgate Publishing Group | | Weight (grammes) | 800 | | Imprint | Ashgate Publishing Limited | | Published in | Aldershot | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | International Studies on Social Security | | Publication date | 25 Jun 1997 | | Height (mm) | 155 | | Library of Congress | HV | | Width (mm) | 225 | | DEWEY | 361.61 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Figures and tables | | | | | | Preface by Stein Kuhnle and Han Emanuel | | | | | | Introduction and overview by Philip R. de Jong and Theodore R. Marmor | | | | | | The Nordic welfare model and the European Union by Rune Ervik and Stein Kuhnle | | 3 | | | | Convergence and divergence in the evolution of the welfare state by Einar Overbye | | 23 | | | | Private provision of social security by Leo J. M. Aarts | | 41 | | | | The case for equivalent taxation of social security benefits in the European Union by Henk Vording | | 63 | | | | The role of bridge jobs in the retirement patterns of older Americans in the 1990s by Joseph F. Quinn | | 91 | | | | Retirement and economic development: an international analysis by Robert L. Clark and Elizabeth Anne York and Richard Anker | | 117 | | | | The concept of work capacity by Tor Eriksen and Edward Palmer | | 149 | | | | Controlling admissions and stays in social security benefit programs by Han Emanuel | | 161 | | | | Rehabilitation and incentives by Philip R. de Jong | | 175 | | | | Economic evaluation of vocational rehabilitation programs by Alf Erling Risa | | 191 | | | | The efficacy of public-sector vocational rehabilitation: measuring earnings effects in experimental research design by David H. Dean and Robert C. Dolan | | 205 | | | | An analytic framework for unemployment insurance and labor supply by Jun-Young Kim | | 221 | | | | Social assistance in comparative perspective by Jonathan Bradshaw | | 235 | | | | Lone mothers, policy and employment in 20 countries by Jonathan Bradshaw and Ulla Bjonberg | | 259 | | | | Single parent families and social security - the case of Sweden by Bjorn Gustafsson and Ali Tasiran and Hakan Nyman | | 285 | | | | Is old-fashioned private assistance an alternative to modern social security? by Frans van Dijk | | 307 | | | | Social security in Poland in the period of transformation to a market economy by Miroslaw Ksiezopolski | | 333 | | | More... | | |
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