James Midgley, Michael W. Sherraden

Alternatives to Social Security

An International Inquiry

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Produktbeschreibung

Few days pass without front page newspaper articles about the disarray in the American social security system and the oncoming crisis of exploding costs and imbalance between workers and retirees.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780865692459
• ISBN-10: 0865692459
• Artikelnr.: 21683489

Autorenporträt

JAMES MIDGLEY is Harry and Riva Specht Professor of Public Social Services and Dean of the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley. MICHAEL SHERRADEN is the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis. Both have written extensively on social policy issues.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by U.S. Senator John Breaux Preface Introduction: Alternatives to
Social Security by James Midgley The Social Assistance Approach and
Retirement Pensions in Australia by Linda Rosenman Provident Funds and
Social Protection: The Case of Singapore by Michael Sherraden
Non-Contributory Pensions in Hong Kong: An Alternative to Social Security?
by K. L. Tang Privatizing Social Security: Relevance of the Chilean
Experience by Silvia Borzutzky Pension Reform in Britain: Alternative Modes
of Provision by Matthew Owen and Frank Field Indigenous Support and Social
Security: Lessons from Kenya by Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Hans Gsänger and
James Midgley Conclusion: Social Security in the Twenty-First Century by
Michael Sherraden