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What Future for Social Security? - Debates and Reforms in National and Cross-National Perspective (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,292
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What Future for Social Security? - Debates and Reforms in National and Cross-National Perspective (Hardcover): Jochen Clasen

What Future for Social Security? - Debates and Reforms in National and Cross-National Perspective (Hardcover)

Jochen Clasen

Series: Studies in Employment and Social Policy Set

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It is widely assumed today that the "welfare state" is contracting or retrenching as an effect of the close scrutiny to which entitlement to social-security benefits is being subjected in most developed countries. In this book, 15 authorities from nine different countries - the UK, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Norway and the US - investigate to what extent this assumption is warranted. The papers were originally presented at a Conference on "The Future of Social Security" held at the University of Stirling in June 2000. Taking into account developments and initiatives at every administrative level from sub-national employment agencies to the OECD and the World Bank, they draw on both data and theories in a broad spectrum of related disciplines, including political science, economics, sociology and law. Detailed materials allow the reader to formulate well-defined responses to such questions as: is there indeed waning public support for social security?; is the "demographic time bomb" of an ageing population as serious a problem as we are often led to believe?; how seriously do supranational reform proposals tend to underestimate cross-national differences? to what degree is "activation policy" merely rhetorical?; to what extent do employment-office staff reformulate and redefine policies "on the ground" to accommodate specific case-by-case realities? Specific criteria for entitlement (such as disability) and such central issues as "gendered" assumptions, access to benefit programmes and the involvement of trade unions are examined in a variety of contexts. As an authoritative assessment of the current state of social-security reform - its critical issues, its direction, and its potential impacts - this book should prove to be of value to all professionals and officials concerned with social programmes at any government level.

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Imprint: Kluwer Law International
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: Studies in Employment and Social Policy Set
Release date: May 1984
First published: May 1984
Authors: Jochen Clasen
Dimensions: 230 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 978-90-411-1671-0
Categories: Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law > Employment & labour law
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > Social security & welfare law
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LSN: 90-411-1671-0
Barcode: 9789041116710

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