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Welfare to work in practice: social security and participation in economic and social life
- Editors:
- SAUNDERS Peter, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 261p.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
This book brings together some of the leading experts to discuss the rationale for welfare to work policies, their limitations and problems encountered in practice. Contributors 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.
Disability policies in European countries
- Authors:
- OORSCHOT Wim van, HVINDEN Bjorn
- Publisher:
- Kluwer Law International
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 128p.
- Place of publication:
- The Hague
This book examines the possible convergence in disability policies in Europe. It points out that assessment of claims for disability benefits are often complex and rely on input from interdisciplinary groups. It argues that in the disability area there rarely a simple relationship between cash and care. The policies of Spain, The Netherlands, Great Britain, Denmark and Ireland are examined.
A crisis in care: the future of family and state care for older people in the European Union
- Authors:
- McGLONE Francis, CRONIN Natalie
- Publisher:
- Family Policy Studies Centre
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 52p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report investigating Europe's looming crisis in care for older people. Argues that family and state care is in decline at the very moment when the number of people needing such care is increasing. Looks at disability and dependency; family care; the pressures of caring; support for carers in the European Union; the changing ability of the family to care; changing attitudes towards care; and European social policy. Also contains a chapter comparing social provision in the EC member states.