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Author : N. A. Barr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Grande-Bretagne - Politique économique - 1945-
ISBN : 0804722056
Author : Nicholas Barr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199297818
The fifth edition of this successful textbook discusses the different parts of the welfare system and, in particular, cash benefits, the health service, and education. The text is organized into four parts: Concepts, Cash benefits, Benefits in kind, and Epilogue.
Author : N. A. Barr
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Distributive justice
ISBN : UCSC:32106013618092
Argues that the welfare state is necessary on grounds of efficiency as well as equity, and that its major efficiency role makes it relevant to the whole population. This edition takes into account reforms since 1987 in social security, the NHS and education and the Thatcher/Reagan governments.
Author : Anthony Barnes Atkinson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262011719
On the economics of the welfare State
Author : H. Tolga Bolukbasi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781487507763
Weighing in on the euro-austerity debate, this book uses case studies from three countries to evaluate the distinctive politics of fiscal policy and welfare state reform during a key period in Europe.
Author : David Garland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780199672660
This 'Very Short Introduction' discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, and comparative perspective, David Garland brings a new understanding to familiar debates, policies, and institutions.
Author : Assaf Razin,Efraim Sadka
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262264366
An analysis of the welfare state from a political economy perspective that examines the effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on industrialized economies. In The Decline of the Welfare State, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka use a political economy framework to analyze the effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on the deteriorating system of financing welfare state benefits as we know them. Their timely analysis, supported by a unified theoretical framework and empirical findings, demonstrates how the combined forces of demographic change and globalization will make it impossible for the welfare state to maintain itself on its present scale. In much of the developed world, the proportion of the population aged 60 and over is expected to rise dramatically over the coming years—from 35 percent in 2000 to a projected 66 percent in 2050 in the European Union and from 27 percent to 47 percent in the United States—which may necessitate higher tax burdens and greater public debt to maintain national pension systems at current levels. Low-skill migration produces additional strains on welfare-state financing because such migrants typically receive benefits that exceed what they pay in taxes. Higher capital taxation, which could potentially be used to finance welfare benefits, is made unlikely by international tax competition brought about by globalization of the capital market. Applying a political economy model and drawing on empirical data from the EU and the United States, the authors draw an unconventional and provocative conclusion from these developments. They argue that the political pressure from both aging and migrant populations indirectly generates political processes that favor trimming rather than expanding the welfare state. The combined pressures of aging, migration, and globalization will shift the balance of political power and generate public support from the majority of the voting population for cutting back traditional welfare state benefits.
Author : Nicholas Barr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0191078840
Author : Arthur Cecil Pigou
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412836678
Author : Nicholas A. Barr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0192522582
Author : José Antonio Ocampo,Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231546164
The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring together distinguished contributors to examine the global variations of social programs and make the case for a redesigned twenty-first-century welfare state. The Welfare State Revisited takes on major debates about social well-being, considering the merits of universal versus targeted policies; responses to market failures; integrating welfare and economic development; and how welfare states around the world have changed since the neoliberal turn. Contributors offer prescriptions for how to respond to the demands generated by demographic changes, the changing role of the family, new features of labor markets, the challenges of aging societies, and technological change. They consider how strengthening or weakening social protection programs affects inequality, suggesting ways to facilitate the spread of effective welfare states throughout the world, especially in developing countries. Presenting new insights into the functions the welfare state can fulfill and how to design a more efficient and more equitable system, The Welfare State Revisited is essential reading on the most discussed issues in social welfare today.
Author : Thomas Wilson,Dorothy J. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000478181
In the early 1980s, the welfare state, for too long regarded as a notable contribution to the establishment of a humane social order, had over the previous decade come under increasing attack. Some of its critics, especially in the UK and the USA, maintained that it had failed to deal satisfactorily with the problem of poverty. Others held that it was over-elaborate, created a psychology of dependence and imposed costs that needed to be reduced as part of a policy of general economic recovery. In a number of countries, cuts had already been imposed or were now contemplated. In this situation it was crucially important to direct attention once more to the basic objectives of the various welfare services from a systematic and comparative standpoint. Originally published in 1982, the authors of this book, one an economist and the other a specialist in social administration, subjected these aims to rigorous analysis and discuss the underlying issues of social philosophy. They then attempt to assess the various methods adopted for their attainment in Britain and comment on those adopted in the USA and in some continental European countries. Although the authors reject the more extreme assertion that the welfare state has been a failure, they point to the need to relate some of the policies followed more clearly to the basic objectives. A number of proposals for reform are put forward which would imply some change of emphasis and should permit a simplification of existing over-complex arrangements.
Author : Axel Börsch-Supan,Martina Brandt,Karsten Hank,Mathis Schröder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9783642174728
Our health, our income and our social networks at older ages are the consequence of what has happened to us over the course of our lives. The situation at age 50+ reflects our own decisions as well as many environmental factors, especially interventions by the welfare state. This book explores the richness of 28,000 life histories in thirteen European countries, collected as part of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Combining these data with a comprehensive account of European welfare state interventions provides a unique opportunity to answer the important public policy questions of our time – how the welfare state affects people’s incomes, housing, families, retirement, volunteering and health. The overarching theme of the welfare state creates a book of genuinely interdisciplinary analyses, a valuable resource for economists, gerontologists, historians, political scientists, public health analysts, and sociologists alike.
Author : John Lapidus
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030247864
This book deals with the quest for a divided welfare state in Sweden. The prime example is the rapid rise of private health insurance, which now constitutes a parallel system characterized by state subsidies for some and not for others. This functions as a kind of reverse means-testing, whereby primarily the upper classes get state support for new types of welfare consumption. Innovatively, Lapidus explains how such a parallel system requires not only direct and statutory state support but also indirect support, for example, from infrastructure built for the public health system. He goes on to examine how semi-private welfare funding is dependent on private provision and how the so-called 'hidden welfare state' gradually erodes the visible and former universal welfare state model, in direct contrast to its own stated goals. Who benefits from privatized welfare? How are the privatization of delivery and the privatization of funding linked? How does this impact public willingness to pay tax? All of these questions and more are discussed in this accessible volume.
Author : Jon Pierre
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199665679
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