Ethics and social security reform / edited by Erik Schokkaert.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Schokkaert, Erik.

Series:

• International studies on social security ; v. 7.
• International studies on social security ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Social security--Moral and ethical aspects.
• Social security.

Genre:

• Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2001]

Contents:

• Part 1 Ethical concepts and principles
• 1.1 Altruism, efficiency and justice: ethical challenges to the welfare state / Erik Schokkaert 3
• 1.2 The ethics and the normgiving: the example of rehabilitation / Lotta Westerhall 37
• 1.3 Crossing frontiers: migration and social security / Simon Roberts 61
• 1.4 Alternative measures of national poverty: perspectives and assessment / Robert H. Haveman, Melissa Mullikin 77
• 1.5 The measurement of absolute poverty / Jonathan Bradshaw 105
• Part 2 Ethics and attitudes
• 2.1 Popularity and participation: social security reform in Australia / Peter Saunders, Maneerat Pinyopusarerk 143
• 2.2 Coping with risk: attitudes towards private unemployment insurance in Britain and Germany / Andreas Cebulla 165
• Part 3 Ethics and the evaluation of concrete institutions
• 3.1 The pre-market phase: the transition from a state-controlled to a market-based social security system / Jasper C. van den Brink, Esther N. Bergsma 185
• 3.2 Public programs create private incentives and disincentives toward work / Barbara L. Wolfe 203
• 3.3 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 243
• 3.4 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, Rudi van Dam 277
• 3.5 What determines work resumption from long sickness spells?
• an analysis of six countries / Edward Palmer, Ali Tasiran 305
• 3.6 Demographic change and partial funding: is the Swedish pension reform a role model for Germany? / Jochen Jagob, Werner Sesselmeier 337.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0754618234

OCLC:

46506263