Ethics and Social Security Reform (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Schokkaert, Erik

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This title was first published in 2001. Ethical considerations play a key role in both the theoretical and practical functioning of the welfare state. The contributors to this book examine these ethical issues, and demonstrate how value judgements must be integrated into any analysis of social security reform.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351753449
• Artikelnr.: 48862923

Autorenporträt

Erik Schokkaert, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction and overview, Erik Schokkaert. Ethical Concepts and
Principles: Altruism, efficiency and justice: ethical challenges to the
welfare state, Erik Schokkaert;
The ethics and the normgiving: the example of rehabilitation, Lotta
Westerhall;
Crossing frontiers: migration and social security, Simon Roberts;
Alternative measures of national poverty: perspectives and assessment,
Robert H. Haveman and Melissa Mullikin;
The measurement of absolute poverty, Jonathan Bradshaw. Ethics and
Attitudes: Popularity and participation: social security reform in
Australia, Peter Saunders and Maneerat Pinyopusarerk;
Coping with risk: attitudes towards private unemployment insurance in
Britain and Germany, Andreas Cebulla. Ethics and the Evaluation of Concrete
Institutions: The pre-market phase: the transition from a state-controlled
to a market-based social security system, Jasper C. van den Brink and
Esther N. Bergsma;
Public programs create private incentives and disincentives toward work,
Barbara L. Wolfe;
Social security, intergovernmental fiscal relations and efficiency: the
case of the two systems of public assistance for the unemployed in Germany,
Martin T.W. Rosenfeld;
Skills, gender equality and the distributional impact of female labour
market participation in the three worlds of welfare capitalism, Bea
Cantillon, Joris Ghysels, Ninke Mussche and Rudi van Dam;
What determines work resumption from long sickness spells? - an analysis of
six countries, Edward Palmer and Ali Tasiran; Demographic change and
partial funding: is the Swedish pension reform a role model for Germany?,
Jochen Jagob and Werner Sesselmeier; List of contributors.