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Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies
This open access edited volume introduces the concept of causal mechanisms to explore new ways of explaining the global dynamics of social policy, and shows that a mechanism-based approach provides several advantages over established approaches for studying social policy. The introductory chapter outlines the mechanism-based approach, which stands out by modularisation and a clear focus…
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- 978-3-030-91088-4
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Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?
This open access book analyses the idea that medicine and psychology have a substantial (and underestimated) impact on Western welfare states. Based on mixed-methods analyses conducted in Germany, it analyses this influence on debates and policies related to unemployment, poverty, and childhood. The book demonstrates how the turn to neoliberalism and social investment thinking has created this …
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- 978-3-031-32792-6
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- XIX, 222
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Politische und ökonomische Rahmenbedingungen des Sozial- und Gesundheitswese…
Das Buch bietet eine kompakte Einführung in die zentralen politischen und ökonomischen Begriffe, Konzepte und Diskurse des schweizerischen Sozial- und Gesundheitswesens. Es spannt den Bogen von den demokratischen Grundsätzen und Eigenheiten des politischen Systems, über die Sozialhilfe, Sozialversicherungen sowie ökonomischen Strukturmerkmale des Gesundheits- und Sozialwesens, bis hin zu F…
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- 978-3-658-35769-6
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- XI, 159
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Fair division and collective welfare
The concept of fair division is as old as civil society itself. Aristotle's "equal treatment of equals" was the first step toward a formal definition of distributive fairness. The concept of collective welfare, more than two centuries old, is a pillar of modern economic analysis. Reflecting fifty years of research, this book examines the contribution of modern microeconomic thinking to distribu…
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- 9780262280297
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- 1 online resource (vi, 289 pages) :illustrations
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Migration and the Welfare State: Political-Economy Policy Formation
This title presents a unified formal framework for studying how social benefits-immigration conflicts are resolved in a range of policy regimes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298377
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- 1 online resource (xii, 168 pages) :illustrations
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The great divestiture :evaluating the welfare impact of the British privatiza…
The privatization carried out under the Thatcher and Major governments in Britain has been widely (although not universally) considered a success, and has greatly influenced the privatization of state industries in the transition economies of Eastern Europe. Massimo Florio's systematic analysis is the first comprehensive treatment of the overall welfare impact of this broad national policy of d…
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- 9780262272865
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages) : illustrations
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Children and pensions
An analysis of the effect of public pension schemes on a country's fertility rate and a proposal for policies to reform pension coverage in light of this.The rapidly aging populations of many developed countries--most notably Japan and member countries of the European Union--present obvious problems for the public pension plans of these countries. Not only will there be disproportionately fewer…
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 204 pages) : illustrations.
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Tax Policy and Labor Market Performance
The effect of tax policies and welfare state incentives on the performance of the labor market: theoretical and empirical analyses by leading European and American economists.High unemployment in many European OECD countries has been attributed to factors ranging from rigid wages and low job mobility to an interaction of high taxes and generous social benefits that may discourage labor force pa…
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- 9780262266864
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 322 pages) :illustrations.
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Taxation, Incomplete Markets, and Social Security
In this book, Peter Diamond analyzes social security as a particular example of optimal taxation theory. Assuming a world of incomplete markets and asymmetric information, he uses a variety of simple models to illuminate the economic forces that bear on specific social security policy issues. The focus is on the degree of progressivity desirable in social security and the design of incentives t…
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- 9780262271684
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 160 pages).
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Darwinian Dominion: Animal Welfare and Human Interests
The controversial subject of this book is the permissible use of animals by humans. Lewis Petrinovich argues that humans have a set of cognitive abilities, developing from a suite of emotional attachments, that make them unique among species. Although other animals can think, suffer, and have needs, the interests of members of the human species should triumph over comparable interests of member…
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