Payments for care: a comparative overview
- Editors:
- EVERS Adalbert, PIJL Marja, UNGERSON Clare
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 358p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Presents a collection of papers looking at how payments for care schemes are developing across Western and Central Europe, the United States and Canada. Includes discussions of payments to 'volunteers', and consideration of the way in which social security and tax systems work to increase the incomes of care recipients and their carers. Also includes introductory chapters discussing general and theoretical issues involved in the development of systems of payments for care including the labour market, empowerment and the relationship between carers and care recipients.
- Subject terms:
- labour market, mixed economy of care, older people, payments, social policy, taxation, carers, children, families, empowerment;
- Location(s):
- Canada, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Finland, France, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Slovenia, United Kingdom, United States
- ISBN print:
- 1 85972 008 0