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Author : Ursula Huws
Publisher : FireWorks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-20
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0745341837
The welfare state is unfit for purpose - how can we transform it into a force for equality and social justice?
Author : Ruud A. de Mooij
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Labor supply
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122667566
The Dutch welfare state is under pressure. Future trends of ageing and globalisation render public finances unsustainable and worsen the position of low-skilled workers on the labour market. At the same time, welfare state institutions seem insufficiently adapted to changed socio-cultural circumstances. Moreover, they cause inactivity among elderly workers, women and social benefit recipients. To prepare for the future, the Dutch government aims to raise labour supply and improve human capital. This study explores how welfare state reform can contribute to these goals. Thereby, we take into account the key social and economic functions that the welfare state fulfils in our society. We analyse a number of reforms in Dutch institutions from a broad welfare perspective and quantify their effects on the labour market and the income distribution. The study also develops three comprehensive prototype welfare state reforms for the Netherlands in the future. We explore how robust these different prototypes are for immigration, economic integration and technological change.
Author : William G. Watson,John Richards,David Manley Brown,C.D. Howe Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:35128001558558
The aim of this document is to raise the level of public debate on issues of national interest, such as the welfare system, by presenting diverse points of view. The themes covered in this document are: the view from the right; the social policy round; and economic change and new social policies.
Author : Bent Greve
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415682923
The welfare state in all its many forms has had a profound role in many countries around the world since at least the Second World War. The Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State explores the classical issues around the welfare state, but also investigates its key concepts, along with how these can be used and analysed. This book provides expert analysis of the core issues related to the welfare state, including regional depictions of welfare states around the globe. The book combines essays on methodologies, core concepts and central policy areas to produce a comprehensive picture of what 'the welfare state' means around the world. In the midst of the credit crunch, this book addresses some of the many questions about the welfare state. This book is suitable for students and scholars throughout the social sciences, particularly in sociology, social policy, public policy, international relations, politics, and gender studies.
Author : David T. Beito
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0807848417
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, more Americans belonged to fraternal societies than to any other kind of voluntary association, with the possible exception of churches. Despite the stereotypical image of the lodge as the exclusiv
Author : Paul Pierson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198297536
The welfare states of the affluent democracies now stand at the centre of political discussion and social conflict. In these path-breaking essays, an international team of leading analysts rejects simplistic claims about the impact of economic 'globalization'. Economic, demographic, and social pressures on the welfare state are very real, but many of the most fundamental challenges have little to do with globalization. Nor do theauthors detect signs of a convergence of national social policies towards an American-style lowest common denominator. The contemporary politics of the welfare state takes shape against a backdrop of both intense pressures for austerity and enduring popularity. Thus in most of the affluent democracies, the politics of social policy centre on the renegotiation, restructuring, and modernization of the post-war social contract ratherthan its dismantling. The authors examine a wide range of countries and public policies arenas, including health care, pensions, and labour markets. They demonstrate how different national settings affect whether, and on what terms, centrist efforts to restructure the welfare state can succeed.
Author : David G. Green
Publisher : Iea Health and Welfare Unit
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015032716527
Author : Ursula Huws
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137520425
In this long-awaited book, Ursula Huws brings together the results of decades of prescient research on labour market transformation to provide an authoritative overview of the impacts of technological, economic, social and political change on working life in the 21st century. Placing current upheavals in global labour markets firmly in their historical context, she debunks myths about the impacts of artificial intelligence on labour, pointing to the processes whereby new employment is created, as well as old jobs destroyed, while never underestimating the contradictory impacts of digitalisation on work organisation, resistance, adaption and innovation. This book is underpinned by a clear conceptual framework, that analyses the dynamics of the restructuring of capitalism and labour, taking full account of unpaid social reproductive work, and integrating a feminist analysis whilst also pointing to new forms of commodification that will shape the future. Labour in Contemporary Capitalism will be an invaluable resource and point of reference for students and scholars studying the sociology of labour, economic structures, technology, and globalisation.
Author : Bernd Marin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351873406
The modern welfare state is indeed one of the greatest achievements of the post-war 20th century. With its key aims of eradicating the five giant social ills of Want, Ignorance, Disease, Squalor and Idleness, it aimed to providing a minimum standard of living, with all people of working age paying a weekly contribution; in return, benefits would be paid to anyone who was sick, unemployed, retired or widowed. The modern welfare state, therefore, is about maintaining a delicate equilibrium between dependent social groups on the one hand and the active working classes on the other. In the case of old-age security, this balance is being achieved (or not) by the so-called Generation Contract. This social pact is more of an implicit, unwritten and unspecified social contract. This ground-breaking book demonstrates how countries are addressing population-ageing challenges in depth, using the case study of Austria to gain the required complexity and differentiation in a comparative European framework of empirical evidence. This is a broad social science study in political economy and sociology, not an economic analysis. Though focusing on pensions, it centres on the (im)balance between work and non-work, issues of health, work ability, employability, and benefit receipt from old-age security to disability allowance. It will be required reading for all sociologists and social policy experts and academics working within this area.
Author : Anthony Barnes Atkinson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262011719
On the economics of the welfare State
Author : Chris Pierson
Publisher : Polity Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0745635210
Over the past decade, Beyond the Welfare State? has become established as the key text on the emergence and development of welfare states. It offers a comprehensive and remarkably well–informed introduction to the ever more intense debates that surround the history and, still more importantly, the future of welfare in advanced industrialised states. Comprehensively revised and re–written, this third edition of the book embraces all of the most important theoretical and empirical developments in welfare state studies of recent years. Working within an explicitly comparative framework, the book draws on a wealth of international evidence to survey what are now the most pressing issues surrounding the future of welfare: among them, globalisation, demographic change, declining fertility, postindustrialism and immigration. It draws extensively on the explosion of work on welfare states that has emerged within the North American political science community over the past ten years as well as giving detailed attention to developments with the UK, continental and northern Europe and beyond. Beyond the Welfare State? remains the most comprehensive and up–to–date guide to the complex of issues that surround welfare reform. It is required reading for anyone who wants to come to terms with what is really at stake in arguments about the future of welfare.
Author : Torben Iversen,Philipp Rehm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1009240420
A core principle of the welfare state is that everyone pays taxes or contributions in exchange for universal insurance against social risks such as sickness, old age, unemployment, and plain bad luck. This solidarity principle assumes that everyone is a member of a single national insurance pool, and it is commonly explained by poor and asymmetric information, which undermines markets and creates the perception that we are all in the same boat. Living in the midst of an information revolution, this is no longer a satisfactory approach. This book explores, theoretically and empirically, the consequences of 'big data' for the politics of social protection. Torben Iversen and Philipp Rehm argue that more and better data polarize preferences over public insurance and often segment social insurance into smaller, more homogenous, and less redistributive pools, using cases studies of health and unemployment insurance and statistical analyses of life insurance, credit markets, and public opinion.
Author : Torben Iversen,David Soskice
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691210216
It is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism, in turn explaining rising inequality and mounting populism. This book, written by two of the world's leading political economists, argues this view is wrong: advanced democracies are resilient, and their enduring historical relationship with capitalism has been mutually beneficial. For all the chaos and upheaval over the past century--major wars, economic crises, massive social change, and technological revolutions--Torben Iversen and David Soskice show how democratic states continuously reinvent their economies through massive public investment in research and education, by imposing competitive product markets and cooperation in the workplace, and by securing macroeconomic discipline as the preconditions for innovation and the promotion of the advanced sectors of the economy. Critically, this investment has generated vast numbers of well-paying jobs for the middle classes and their children, focusing the aims of aspirational families, and in turn providing electoral support for parties. Gains at the top have also been shared with the middle (though not the bottom) through a large welfare state. Contrary to the prevailing wisdom on globalization, advanced capitalism is neither footloose nor unconstrained: it thrives under democracy precisely because it cannot subvert it. Populism, inequality, and poverty are indeed great scourges of our time, but these are failures of democracy and must be solved by democracy.
Author : Robert E. Goodin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521596394
This book traces how individuals fare over time in each of the three principal types of welfare state.
Author : John Clarke,Janet Newman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803976127
This original analysis of the creation of new state forms critically examines the political forces that enabled `more and better management' to be presented as a solution to the problems of the welfare state in Britain. Examining the micro-politics within public service, the authors draw links between politics, policies and organizational power to present an incisive and dynamic account of the restructuring of social welfare. Clarke and Newman expose the tensions and contradictions in the managerial state and trace the emergence of new dilemmas in the provision of public services. They show that these problems are connected to the recurring difficulties in defining `the public' that receives these services. In partic
