European Social Security And Global Politics Eiss Yearbook

Author : European Institute for Social Security. Conference
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041119483

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European Social Security and Global Politics:Eiss Yearbook by European Institute for Social Security. Conference Pdf

The twelve remarkable essays in this book explore this vital issue from a number of enlightening perspectives. European Social Security and Global Politics represents a partial gleaning of the September 2001 conference-held in Bergen, Norway-of the European Institute of Social Security, a leading multidisciplinary research group and the vanguard of the debate on social security in Europe. Fifteen highly committed researchers and administrators from all over Europe offer in-depth analysis and conclusions in such crucial areas as: how globalisation increases inequality and hinders redistribution of wealth how certain social security policies hamper the free movement of workers the elusive promise of regional social security in Europe essential elements of any proposed global social security policy various reform initiatives for the fair administration of pension schemes In addition to the invaluable individual insights advanced in each paper, two notable trends seem to pervade the entire conference. One is the growing divergence of social security policy within European countries, coexisting uneasily with EU measures against social exclusion; the other is the sudden clarity of principle and design in the European welfare state when seen against the virtual anarchy of the globalisation model. Where these trends may lead us is only beginning to come into focus, and this book is among the first to sharpen the images of the possible futures in European social security that are likely to emerge in the next decade. All professionals in any aspect of social security policy or study will benefit enormously from this provocative book, not only in Europe but throughout the world.

Author : European Institute for Social Security. Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Globalization
ISBN : OCLC:1310587261

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European Social Security and Global Politics by European Institute for Social Security. Conference Pdf

Author : European Institute of Social Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9033436779

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American and European Perspectives on Social Security by European Institute of Social Security Pdf

Author : Jos Berghman
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9058674460

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Social Protection Globalised by Jos Berghman Pdf

This book contributes to the growing amount of literature that is concerned with the relationship between globalisation and social security. The aim of this work is, first, to clarify the impact of the globalisation process on social security systems and, second, to formulate substantive and technical proposals for the adaptation of existing social security schemes to an altered socio-economic context and for the elaboration of international legal instruments aimed at an effective substantive and procedural protection of social security as a fundamental right.The report is divided into three parts. The first part is concerned with the social impact of globalisation and its consequences for social security systems in the high-income economies. The first article of this section considers the nature of globalisation as well as its social impact. It spells out some fundamental challenges facing social security systems. The following article elaborates further on one specific challenge, that is: the need for social security to adapt to the increased territorial mobility of workers.The second part looks at the effects of globalisation on social security in relation to middle- and low-income countries and examines the extent to which existing arrangements in these countries are able to provide adequate income protection to me majority of the population. For the group of middle-income countries, the relevance of globalisation for the privatisation of pension systems is analysed as well as the consequences with respect to their main social functions, i.e. the provision of old-age income security and income redistribution. This is done so through a comparative analysis of Latin American countries that have implemented pension policy reform. The following two articles consider the experience of social security systems in low-income countries. In the first article the impact and challenges of globalisation for existing formal and informal social security arrangements in low-income countries are explored and options are suggested for alternative approaches to social security provision that are better suited to the circumstances of low-income countries. The arguments have been illustrated with evidence from Cote d'Ivoire, a country with a socio-economic situation and social security framework that is typical for the majority of low-income countries. The second article discusses in greater depth the link between informal economic and social security in Sub-Saharan Africa.Finally, the third part calls for a global approach to social security. To this end, the first article in this section outlines a possible strategy for a generalised social protection at the global level based on the human damage theory while the last chapter of this work is concerned with the international legal instruments most appropriate for a better substantive and procedural protection of social security as a basic human right.

Author : Piotr Sałustowicz
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Community development
ISBN : 9783825816209

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Social Policy and Social Work by Piotr Sałustowicz Pdf

The present social policy and social work are facing with and challenging the process of rapid change in all aspects of social life: economic, cultural and political. The globalising capitalistic economy is considered to be the main cause of this process and it is made responsible for reduction of the public sphere, for the demise of the welfare state, for growing poverty and social inequalities, for damage of the local communities and families, for degradation of the environment. There is no doubt social policy and social work has to rise to these challenges. This volume contains some interesting contributions to this question provided by international experts.

Author : S. Saxonberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137319395

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Gendering Family Policies in Post-Communist Europe by S. Saxonberg Pdf

Through the use of a historical-institutional perspective and with particular reference to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia; this study explores the state of family policies in Post-Communist Europe. It analyzes how these policies have developed and examines their impact on gender relations for the countries mentioned.

Author : Linda Hantrais
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137106582

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Social Policy in the European Union, Third Edition by Linda Hantrais Pdf

Taking account of the debates about adapting the Union's institutional structures to accommodate different welfare arrangements and the need for more open forms of European governance, the third edition of this well received book offers a compact, clear and authoritative account of 50 years of social policy formation and implementation across the EU.

Author : Vicki Paskalia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847313737

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Free Movement, Social Security and Gender in the EU by Vicki Paskalia Pdf

This work examines the system of co-ordination of national social security laws in the European Union from a gender perspective. The central question that it raises concerns the level of social security protection enjoyed by women moving throughout the Union in cases of work interruption or marriage dissolution. Women's social security protection has traditionally been based on two criteria, namely economic activity and family/marriage. Work interruptions, in particular for child-rearing, challenge the invocation of economic activity as an effective basis for social security rights. Changing social and family conditions, including the emergence of atypical relationships and increasing divorce rates, challenge the criterion of family/marriage. Efforts have been made within the framework of the national systems of the Member States to address these challenges, often unsuccessfully. So, how successful has the European system of co-ordination, the aim of which is to provide a sufficient level of protection to migrant workers and their families, been in addressing these challenges? The book contains comprehensive discussion of the phenomenon and legal institution of social security, as well as a thorough analysis of the current state of European Community law concerning co-ordination, with a particular focus on gender. It identifies several problematic areas where solutions must be worked out and action taken. The book fills a gap in the legal literature on the social security field and will appeal to those with an interest in social security, including academics, policy-makers and practitioners.

Author : Stefano Giubboni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139447782

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Social Rights and Market Freedom in the European Constitution by Stefano Giubboni Pdf

This is an account of the development of European labour and social security law as it interrelates with the evolution of market integration in the European Union. Giubboni presents, from a labour law perspective, a case study of the changes the European Community/European Union has undergone from its origins to the present day and of the ways these changes have affected the regulation of European Welfare States at national level. Drawing on the idea of 'embedded liberalism', Giubboni analyses the infiltration of EC competition and market law into national systems of labour and social security law and provides a normative framework for conceptualising the transformation of regulatory techniques implemented at the EU level. This important, interdisciplinary contribution to research in EU social law illustrates how the vision of social protection and solidarity is changing.

Author : Bahle, Thomas,Hubl, Vanessa
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847427267

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The last safety net by Bahle, Thomas,Hubl, Vanessa Pdf

Minimum income protection provides the last social safety net for people in need. The book provides a systematic comparative and longitudinal analysis of minimum income protection systems in 17 EU countries based on a newly developed dataset. Country-specific chapters providing institutional overviews are combined with comparative quantitative indicators on issues such as benefit levels, expenditures and beneficiaries. The book will be of major interest to researchers, scholars and experts in income protection, poverty and the welfare state.

Author : Katherine McFate,Roger Lawson,William Julius Wilson
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610446686

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Poverty, Inequality, and the Future of Social Policy by Katherine McFate,Roger Lawson,William Julius Wilson Pdf

"Extremely coherent and useful, this much needed volume is concerned with the current status of the poor in Western industrial states. Its closely linked essays allow comparisons between case studies and are often themselves cross-national comparisons....The essays also comment on the meaning of globalization for social policy." —Choice "Excellent and tightly integrated articles by a group of prominent international scholars....A timely and important book, which will surely become the basic reference point for all future research on inequality and social policy." —Contemporary Sociology The social safety net is under strain in all Western nations, as social and economic change has created problems that traditional welfare systems were not designed to handle. Poverty, Inequality, and the Future of Social Policy provides a definitive analysis of the conditions that are fraying the social fabric and the reasons why some countries have been more successful than others in addressing these trends. In the United States, where the poverty rate in the 1980s was twice that of any advanced nation in Europe, the social protection system—and public support for it—has eroded alarmingly. In Europe, the welfare system more effectively buffered the disadvantaged, but social expenditures have been indicted by many as the principal cause of high unemployment. Concluding chapters review the progress and goals of social welfare programs, assess their viability in the face of creeping economic, racial, and social fragmentation, and define the challenges that face those concerned with social cohesion and economic prosperity in the new global economy. This volume illuminates the disparate effects of government intervention on the incidence and duration of poverty in Western countries. Poverty, Inequality, and the Future of Social Policy is full of lessons for anyone who would look beyond the limitations of the welfare debate in the United States.

Author : William James Adams
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472065041

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Singular Europe by William James Adams Pdf

Examines the implications of the fully integrated European market

Author : Wolfgang Weiß,Cornelia Furculita
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030345884

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Global Politics and EU Trade Policy by Wolfgang Weiß,Cornelia Furculita Pdf

This book explores how the European Union designs its trade policy to face the most recent challenges and to influence global policy issues. It provides with an interdisciplinary perspective, by combining legal, political, and economic approaches. It studies a broad set of trade instruments that are used by the EU in its trade policy, such as: trade agreements, multilateral initiatives, unilateral trade policies, as well as, internal market tools. Therefore, the contributions to this volume present the EU’s Trade Policy through different lenses providing a complex view of it.

Author : Elizabeth H. Yates,John F. Burton
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0810833549

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International Examinations of Medical-legal Aspects of Work Injuries by Elizabeth H. Yates,John F. Burton Pdf

This volume contains over 300 pages of thought-provoking, critical research covering a wide range of topics related to work injuries. Delivered at the Second International Congress on Medical-Legal Aspects of Work Injuries, held in Jerusalem in February 1995, these proceedings include twenty-eight papers written by experts in the field of work injuries from around the world.

Author : Danny Pieters
Publisher : Springer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-06
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110298812

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Confidence and Changes Managing Social Protection in the New Millennium by Danny Pieters Pdf

The confidence of wage-earners, who depend on an administrative "safety net" to protect them from loss of income, has virtually disappeared. Social exclusion and poverty have become inescapable threats for the average worker. It was to tackle this enormously important issue that the European Institute of Social Security (EISS), a leading multidisciplinary research group dedicated to exploring the frontiers of social security, met in June 2000 in GandÖteborg in Sweden. Twenty members of the Institute prepared papers for delivery at the conference, all of which are now printed in this book. These papers include discussion of such elements as the following: the shift in emphasis from compensation for loss of income to a more preventive approach based on income security; measures against social exclusion enacted by the European Union; the meaning of the term "employability" as revealed in EU Member States' National Action Plans (NAPs); the growing pressure on beneficiaries to "perform" rather than "conform"; the interplay in international law between human rights and social security; labour market participation according to gender and educational level; labour market participation among families with young children; the promise of a "federal" social security system in Europe; and objective standards vs. "moral hazard" in labour market insurance. Various reform initiatives (including the controversial debate on private sector funding) are also covered, making Confidence and Changes the most wide-ranging and provocative book on the subject available today.