Welfare to work in practice : social security and participation in economic and social Life / edited by Peter Saunders (University of New South Wales, Australia).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saunders, Peter, 1948- editor.

Series:

International studies on social security.

International Studies on Social Security ; Volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social security beneficiaries--Employment.

Social security beneficiaries.

Welfare recipients--Employment.

Welfare recipients.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

"Welfare to Work in Practice brings together some of the leading international social security experts to discuss the rationale for welfare to work policies, their limitations and problems encountered in practice. Contributors include Jane Millar, Neil Gilbert, Martin Werding, Jonathan Bradshaw and Einar Overbye, who address topics ranging from the linkages between social security and the labour market to how the welfare to work agenda is responding to the needs of special groups such as lone parents, the long-term unemployed and those with a disability. The book puts the arguments and ideas that underlie the new welfare reform agenda under the microscope and explains how it is being implemented in an international context. Several new data sets are analyzed in a collection that covers developments in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Norway, the UK and the US, as well as several comparative studies. In doing so, this volume helps to bridge the gap between research and policy and demonstrates how policy can respond to the challenges it faces."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

chapter 1 Welfare to Work in Practice: Introduction and Overview / Peter Saunders

chapter 2 Protection to Activation: The Apotheosis of Work / Neil Gilbert

chapter 3 Work as Welfare? Lone Mothers, Social Security and Employment / Jane Millar

chapter 4 Bridging the Welfare to Work Divide: Economic and Social Participation among Income Support Recipients in Australia

chapter 5 The Role of Workfare in the Scandinavian Model of Social Security: Soft Work Incentives, Skill Upgrading or Quality of Life Improvement for the Disadvantaged?

chapter 6 In-work Benefits: Curing Unemployment among the Low-skilled in Germany

chapter 7 Financial Incentives and Mothers’ Employment: A Comparative

chapter 8 Reforming the Passive Welfare State: Belgium’s New Income Arrangements to Make Work Pay in International Perspective / Lieve De Lathouwer

chapter 9 Dilemmas in Disability Activation and How Scandinavians Try to Live with Them

chapter 10 Personalised Employment Services for Disability Benefits Recipients: Are Comparisons Useful? / Patricia Thornton

chapter 11 Who Becomes a Disability Benefit Recipient in Sweden? / Sisko Bergendorff

chapter 12 Returning the Long-term Sick-listed to Work: The Effects of Educational Measures and Employer Separations in Denmark / Jan H0gelund and Anders Holm

chapter 13 Disability Benefits and Unemployment Patterns in Estonia / Orsolya Szirko.

Notes:

First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-87334-2

1-351-87335-0

1-315-23420-3

9781315234205

OCLC:

993651774