Labor and the Elderly in the Welfare Retrenchment Era
Author: Juan J. Fernandez
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 710
ISBN-13:
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Changing labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship
Author: Goul Andersen, Jørgen
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2002-01-23
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1847425402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChanging labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship readdresses the question of how full citizenship may be preserved and developed in the face of enduring labour market pressures. It: clarifies the relationship between changing labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship; discusses possible ways in which the spill-over effect from labour market marginality to loss of citizenship can be prevented; specifies this problem in relation to the young, older people, men and women and immigrants; offers theoretical and conceptual definitions of citizenship as a new, alternative approach to empirical analyses of labour market marginalisation and its consequences; highlights the lessons to be learned from differing approaches in European countries.
The Politics of Justification
Author: Christoffer Green-Pedersen
Publisher: Peterson's
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9789053565902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.
The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State
Author: Francis G. Castles
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2012-09-06
Total Pages: 908
ISBN-13: 019162828X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The book is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state 's history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state embraces. The first of these sections looks at inputs and actors (including the roles of parties, unions, and employers), the impact of gender and religion, patterns of migration and a changing public opinion, the role of international organisations and the impact of globalisation. The next two sections cover policy inputs (in areas such as pensions, health care, disability, care of the elderly, unemployment, and labour market activation) and their outcomes (in terms of inequality and poverty, macroeconomic performance, and retrenchment). The seventh section consists of seven chapters which survey welfare state experience around the globe (and not just within the OECD). Two final chapters consider questions about the global future of the welfare state. The individual chapters of the Handbook are written in an informed but accessible way by leading researchers in their respective fields giving the reader an excellent and truly up-to-date knowledge of the area under discussion. Taken together, they constitute a comprehensive compendium of all that is best in contemporary welfare state research and a unique guide to what is happening now in this most crucial and contested area of social and political development.
Challenges of Aging
Author: C. Torp
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-06-15
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1137283173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopulation ageing is among the most important developments of our time. This book explores the profound challenges faced by an aging world. Leading experts from diverse disciplines describe the fundamental impact demographic aging has on pension systems, on the concepts of retirement and old age, and on the balance of generational justice.
The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty
Author: David Brady
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 937
ISBN-13: 0199914052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty builds a common scholarly ground in the study of poverty by bringing together an international, inter-disciplinary group of scholars to provide their perspectives on the issue. Contributors engage in discussions about the leading theories and conceptual debates regarding poverty, the most salient topics in poverty research, and the far-reaching consequences of poverty on the individual and societal level.
How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public
Author: Staffan Kumlin
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2014-01-31
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1782545492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStaffan Kumlin and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen bring together political scientists and sociologists from different and frequently separated research communities to examine policy feedback in European welfare states. In doing so, they offer a rich menu
Austerity, Retrenchment and the Welfare State
Author: Bent Greve
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2020-01-31
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1789903718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre we living in an age of permanent austerity? In this insightful book, Bent Greve provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of welfare states since 2000, exploring the ways by which austerity can be measured and quantified. Through detailed comparative analysis between states, this book dissects the implementation of economic retrenchment, its extent and impact in Europe.
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
Author: Gosta Esping-Andersen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-05-29
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0745666752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the most distinguished contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary advanced western societies. Esping-Andersen distinguishes several major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different western countries. Current economic processes, the author argues, such as those moving towards a post-industrial order, are not shaped by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences. Fully informed by comparative materials, this book will have great appeal to everyone working on issues of economic development and post-industrialism. Its audience will include students and academics in sociology, economics and politics.
Age in the Welfare State
Author: Julia Lynch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-06-05
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1139454951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book asks why some countries devote the lion's share of their social policy resources to the elderly, while others have a more balanced repertoire of social spending. Far from being the outcome of demands for welfare spending by powerful age-based groups in society, the 'age' of welfare is an unintended consequence of the way that social programs are set up. The way that politicians use welfare state spending to compete for votes, along either programmatic or particularistic lines, locks these early institutional choices into place. So while society is changing - aging, divorcing, moving in and out of the labor force over the life course in new ways - social policies do not evolve to catch up. The result, in occupational welfare states like Italy, the United States, and Japan, is social spending that favors the elderly and leaves working-aged adults and children largely to fend for themselves.
