Journal of European Social Policy, 22(5), December 2012, pp.455-471.
Publisher:
Sage
... states typologies. The analysis uses internationally comparable microdata drawn from the 2007 EU-Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) in order to account for the distribution of resources across households. Several measures of distributional outcomes (benefits, pensions, taxes, and social insurance contributions) are presented, followed by the results of the hierarchical cluster
Welfare state typologies are generally based on the institutional design of welfare policies. However, it is unclear whether these typologies persist when they are applied to effective redistributive outcomes of welfare states’ tax and transfer policies. The purpose of this study was to test whether the microeconomic outcomes of welfare state institutions cluster among the established welfare states typologies. The analysis uses internationally comparable microdata drawn from the 2007 EU-Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) in order to account for the distribution of resources across households. Several measures of distributional outcomes (benefits, pensions, taxes, and social insurance contributions) are presented, followed by the results of the hierarchical cluster analysis. The findings validate the common expectation of overall redistribution according to the welfare state typology (high in Nordic and Continental, lower in southern and Anglo-Saxon countries). They further suggest that the distributional outcomes of Western European welfare states do indeed cluster within the established regimes known as the social-democratic, conservative, liberal and southern model. Belgium and the Netherlands emerge as hybrid cases lying between the social-democratic and conservative model.
Subject terms:
models, pensions, taxation, welfare state, benefits, economics, European Union;
Corporate Document Services; Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
Publication year:
2007
Pagination:
154p.
Place of publication:
Leeds
This report presents the results of a major evaluation of the impact of Automatic State Pension Forecasts (APFs), 16 million of which were sent to people aged 20-64 in the two years up to November 2006. It is the most robust evaluation to date, encompassing around 12,000 interviews, nearly 9,000 with APF recipients about their reactions to the forecast, what they did with it and whether they took action as a result; and almost 3,000 with a control sample of non-recipients.
This report presents the results of a major evaluation of the impact of Automatic State Pension Forecasts (APFs), 16 million of which were sent to people aged 20-64 in the two years up to November 2006. It is the most robust evaluation to date, encompassing around 12,000 interviews, nearly 9,000 with APF recipients about their reactions to the forecast, what they did with it and whether they took action as a result; and almost 3,000 with a control sample of non-recipients.
Subject terms:
models, pensions, state retirement pensions, user views, evaluation, expenditure;
The Royal Commission on Long-term Care has reviewed systems in several countries to see what can be learned. Reports on how the Commission sees the Australian model as an effective system.
The Royal Commission on Long-term Care has reviewed systems in several countries to see what can be learned. Reports on how the Commission sees the Australian model as an effective system.
Subject terms:
insurance, long term care, models, older people, pensions, social policy, benefits;
Journal of Social Policy, 27(1), January 1998, pp.1-16.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Place of publication:
Cambridge
The idea of the welfare state is commonly grounded in the principles of social rights, universality and solidarity. Over the past twenty years, welfare reforms have challenged the salience of this conceptualisation. This article argues that changes such as austerity measures, pension reform, administrative decentralisation and efforts to revive the obligation of citizenship have fostered a more discursive conception of social rights. When rights are discursive, the relative power of various clientele interests plays a greater role in the discursive, the relative power of various clientele interests plays a greater role in the distribution of benefits than objective conditions of need. Also, notions such as universality and solidarity are giving way to selectivity and individual responsibility as the paramount principles of the welfare state.
The idea of the welfare state is commonly grounded in the principles of social rights, universality and solidarity. Over the past twenty years, welfare reforms have challenged the salience of this conceptualisation. This article argues that changes such as austerity measures, pension reform, administrative decentralisation and efforts to revive the obligation of citizenship have fostered a more discursive conception of social rights. When rights are discursive, the relative power of various clientele interests plays a greater role in the discursive, the relative power of various clientele interests plays a greater role in the distribution of benefits than objective conditions of need. Also, notions such as universality and solidarity are giving way to selectivity and individual responsibility as the paramount principles of the welfare state.
Subject terms:
models, organisational structure, pensions, rights, social policy, welfare state, citizenship;
British Journal of Psychiatry, 180, April 2002, pp.374-379.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
This study aims to re-evaluate the recognition of psychiatric disorders by the war pension authorities. Official statistics were compared with samples of war pension files from the Boer War and the First and Second World Wars. Official reports tended to overestimate the number of awards. Although government figures suggested that the proportion of neurological and psychiatric pensions was higher
This study aims to re-evaluate the recognition of psychiatric disorders by the war pension authorities. Official statistics were compared with samples of war pension files from the Boer War and the First and Second World Wars. Official reports tended to overestimate the number of awards. Although government figures suggested that the proportion of neurological and psychiatric pensions was higher after the Second World War, the present analysis suggests that the rates may not have been significantly different.
Subject terms:
mental health, mental health problems, models, needs, older people, pensions, retirement, war, armed forces personnel;
... at the request of the Pensions Policy Institute.
The purpose of this paper is to gather the arguments from many perspectives in one place to encourage informed debate. In Chapter 1, the reasons why raising the state pension age (SPA) might be justified are explored. In Chapter 2, the best transition approach if SPA were to be raised is considered. Appendix 2 on the financial implications of raising SPA was prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers at the request of the Pensions Policy Institute.
Subject terms:
life expectancy, models, pensions, retirement, taxation, ageing, benefits, central government, economics, eligibility criteria, financing;
Seeks to identify the proper objectives of pensions and long-term care policy. The report analyses existing policy and methods of funding and proposes radical but workable reform of the government's proposed settlement. Contents include: UK state pensions policy at the crossroads; modelling pension choices; demand for long-term care in the UK.
Seeks to identify the proper objectives of pensions and long-term care policy. The report analyses existing policy and methods of funding and proposes radical but workable reform of the government's proposed settlement. Contents include: UK state pensions policy at the crossroads; modelling pension choices; demand for long-term care in the UK.
Subject terms:
life expectancy, models, older people, pensions, planning, policy formulation, retirement, taxation, central government, care homes, cost effectiveness, financing;