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Confidence and Changes - Managing Social Protection in the New Millennium (Hardcover)
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Confidence and Changes - Managing Social Protection in the New Millennium (Hardcover)
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The idea of "competitive flexibility" fostered by open market
economics has deeply eroded the established social security systems
of the developed nations. 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 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 Goteborg 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 versus "moral hazard" in labour
market insurance. Various reform initiatives (including the
controversial debate on private sector funding) are also covered.
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