The state of social welfare, 1997 : international studies on social insurance and retirement, employment, family policy and health care
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The state of social welfare, 1997 : international studies on social insurance and retirement, employment, family policy and health care
（International studies on social security, v. 4）
Ashgate, c1998
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"Selection of articles based on papers presented at Fourth International Research Seminar on Issues in Social Security, held by FISS on 14-17 June 1997 in Sigtuna, Sweden"--Pref
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This work contains a selection of edited papers presented at the Fifth International Research Seminar held in June 1997 in Sweden by the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS). The chapters cover a wide range of subjects related to old age pension reform, family policy, employment, privatization of social security and health care.
Table of Contents
- Social security and macro-economics: social security, macro-economics and the European Union, A.B. Atkinson. Part 1 Pensions and retirement: the role of social insurance, private pensions and earnings in explaining the vulnerability of widowed women in the United States, Karen C. Holden and Cathleen D. Zick
- old age provisions for women - Bismarck or Beveridge?, Christopher Prinz
- employment and retirement - conflicting aims within the welfare society, Marin Rein and Narry L. Friedman
- cross-national patterns of labour force withdrawal, Timothy M. Smeeding and Joseph Quinn. Part 2 Employment and social security: the welfare state and full employment, Robert H. Haveman
- government mandates, health insurance, and the deterioration of the low-wage labour market - are they connected?, Barbara L. Wolfe, Amy Wolaver and Timothy McBride. Part 3 Family policy and economic wellbeing: policy response to household vulnerability - the Norwegian case in an international context, Einar Overbye
- the state-parent-child relationship after family break-ups - child maintenance in Norway and Great Britain, Anne Skevik
- changes in economic well-being and income distribution in the 1980s - different measures, different outcomes, Amy D. Crews and Richard V. Burkhauser. Part 4 Privatization of social insurance: dimensions of privatization, Tor E. Eriksen and Lars Soderstrom
- privatization of retirement income, John A. Turner and David Rajnes
- private provision of disability insurance - how does the Dutch policy of privatizing disability insurance compare with US experience in workers compensation, Leo J.M. Aarts and Philip R. de Jong. Part 5 Health care: cautionary lessons from the West - what (not) to learn from other countries experiences in the financing and delivery of health care, Theodore R. Marmor and Kieke G.H. Okma
- intergenerational equity - the concept of e "fiar innings", Alan Williams.
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