Age in the welfare state : the origins of social spending on pensioners, workers, and children
著者
書誌事項
Age in the welfare state : the origins of social spending on pensioners, workers, and children
（Cambridge studies in comparative politics）
Cambridge University Press, 2006
- : pbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-217) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book asks why some countries devote the lion's share of their social policy resources to the elderly, while others have a more balanced repertoire of social spending. Far from being the outcome of demands for welfare spending by powerful age-based groups in society, the 'age' of welfare is an unintended consequence of the way that social programs are set up. The way that politicians use welfare state spending to compete for votes, along either programmatic or particularistic lines, locks these early institutional choices into place. So while society is changing - aging, divorcing, moving in and out of the labor force over the life course in new ways - social policies do not evolve to catch up. The result, in occupational welfare states like Italy, the United States, and Japan, is social spending that favors the elderly and leaves working-aged adults and children largely to fend for themselves.
目次
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Measuring the age of welfare
- 3. Age and the welfare state: theories and hypotheses
- 4. Family allowances: wages, taxes, and the appeal to the self-employed
- 5. Benefits for the unemployed: young and old in the fortress labor market
- 6. Old-age pensions: the architecture of spending
- 7. Conclusion.
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