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Expanding Welfare in an Age of Austerity : Increasing Protection in an Unprotected World / Anthony Kevins.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Changing Welfare StatesPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 30 line drawingsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789462980211
  • 9789048529391
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.61094
LOC classification:
  • HN373.5 .K485 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table Of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Struggling With Persistent Gaps -- 2. A Tale Of Two Rmis -- 3. Public Attitudes Towards The Unemployed In Continental, Southern Europe, And Beyond -- 4. Southern European Characteristics In The Broader Context -- 5. Bismarck, Beveridge, And Making The Transition -- 6. Healthcare Reform And Public Opinion In Continental And Southern Europe -- 7. Examining Healthcare Coverage Across The Oecd -- 8. Rectifying Coverage Gaps -- Appendix: A Brief Methodological Note -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In recent decades, and particularly since the financial crisis, continental Europe has seen an increasing gap between those workers who have well-protected, good-paying jobs with strong benefits and those who work lower-quality, nonstandard jobs, or who have no regular work at all. This situation would seem to call for increased spending on the social safety net, yet governments throughout the region have instead been turning to austerity. In the face of that reality, the options for helping disadvantaged workers are to extend coverage through re-allocating the benefits given to higher-level workers, maintain the benefits of the well-off as the number of outsiders continues to grow, or simply ignore the problem. This book asks why different nations have taken different tacks in handling-or not handling-this problem.

Frontmatter -- Table Of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Struggling With Persistent Gaps -- 2. A Tale Of Two Rmis -- 3. Public Attitudes Towards The Unemployed In Continental, Southern Europe, And Beyond -- 4. Southern European Characteristics In The Broader Context -- 5. Bismarck, Beveridge, And Making The Transition -- 6. Healthcare Reform And Public Opinion In Continental And Southern Europe -- 7. Examining Healthcare Coverage Across The Oecd -- 8. Rectifying Coverage Gaps -- Appendix: A Brief Methodological Note -- Bibliography -- Index

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In recent decades, and particularly since the financial crisis, continental Europe has seen an increasing gap between those workers who have well-protected, good-paying jobs with strong benefits and those who work lower-quality, nonstandard jobs, or who have no regular work at all. This situation would seem to call for increased spending on the social safety net, yet governments throughout the region have instead been turning to austerity. In the face of that reality, the options for helping disadvantaged workers are to extend coverage through re-allocating the benefits given to higher-level workers, maintain the benefits of the well-off as the number of outsiders continues to grow, or simply ignore the problem. This book asks why different nations have taken different tacks in handling-or not handling-this problem.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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