Fighting poverty : caring for children, parents, the elderly and health
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Fighting poverty : caring for children, parents, the elderly and health
(International studies on social security, vol. 5)
Ashgate, c1999
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
A selection of papers from a multidisciplinary seminar held in June 1998. It covers problems of poverty, uneven distribution of income and unfair distribution of social services in an internationally comparative context. One chapter addresses the concept of poverty itself, developing the notion of inability of self-reliance as an alternative to income insufficiency. Others look at the situation of children, lone parents and the elderly or at the allocation of social services rather than the distribution of income, notably in the area of health care.
Table of Contents
- Introduction and overview, Stein Ringen and Philip R. de Jong. Part 1 Poverty and income distribution: "inability to be self-reliant" as an indicator of US poverty, Robert H. Havemand and Andrew Bershadker
- poverty among children and elders in Europe and North America, Lee Rainwater. Part 2 Family poverty: the cost and benefits of children, Bernard M.S. van Praag and Erik J.S. Plug
- relating inputs to outcomes - child poverty and family transfers in comparative perspective, Jonathan R. Bradshaw and Helen Barnes
- framing and reframing social policy paradigms - the case of lone parents, Nadine Lefaucheur and Martin Rein
- work incentives in single parent families, Katja Forssen and Mia Harkovita. Part 3 Pension reform and disability policy: reforming social security -how, why and so what?, Estelle James
- pension policies for ageing populations, labour market policies, funded and mixed systems, Colin Gillion
- social security reform and inter-generational transfers - simulation results for Switzerland, Stefan Felder. Part 4 Health care policy: inequality of health care access and utilization and the potential role for the public sector, Barbara L. Wolfe and David Vanness
- risk adjustment and the equity and efficiency of health care systems, Erik Schokkaert and Carine Van de Voorde
- the cost of coercion - an empirical study of the willingness to pay for disability insurance, Leo J.M. Aarts and Philip R. de Jong
- some issues in aged care expenditure in Australia, C.Y. Choi.
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