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Challenges to the welfare state : family and pension policies in the Baltic and Nordic countries / edited by Jolanta Aidukaite, Sven E.O. Hort, Stein Kuhnle.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New horizons in social policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare--Baltic States--History--21st century.
- Public welfare.
- Public welfare--Scandinavia--History--21st century.
- Economic conditions.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Baltic States--Social conditions--21st century.
- Baltic States.
- Scandinavia--Social conditions--21st century.
- Scandinavia.
- Baltic States--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Scandinavia--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 pages).
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- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, Glos ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Annotation of the book
- 1. Introduction: Baltic and Nordic countries from a comparative perspective
- family policies and pensions in the era of ageing
- PART I Perspectives on family policy
- 2. Family support systems in the Baltic and Nordic countries: an explorative overview
- 3. Demographic challenges of Europe in the new millennium: Swedish family policies as an answer to them?
- 4. Nordic family policy in the 2000s: from a 'transfer-based' towards a 'service-based' family policy?
- 5. Family policy support for the earner-carer and traditional-family models in Lithuania and Sweden
- 6. The sustainability of family support systems in the 21st century: comparing Sweden and Lithuania
- 7. Cost of childcare: evolution of regional diversity in Estonia
- PART II Perspectives on pension protection in the era of ageing
- 8. Ageing and the welfare state: welfare policies and attitudes in the Baltic and Nordic countries
- 9. Gender inequalities in family leaves, employment and pensions in Finland
- 10. Approaches to minimum-income protection in old age: comparing the three Scandinavian countries
- 11. Pension systems as risk management: a case of the Baltic states
- 12. Looking for an adequate and sustainable old-age pension system: comparing Sweden and Lithuania
- 13. The inequality of public pension benefits for the elderly using Estonian data
- 14. Stretching the canvas: beyond welfare state typologies to capability and agency
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 31, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Aidukaite, Jolanta Challenges to the Welfare State
- ISBN:
- 9781839106118
- 1839106115
- Publisher Number:
- 40030926943
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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