Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

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, 2017Description: 1 online resource (218 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048529391
  • 9048529395
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Expanding welfare in an age of austerity.DDC classification:
  • 330 22
LOC classification:
  • HN373.5 .K485 2017eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Struggling with persistent gaps -- A tale of two RMIs -- Public attitudes towards the unemployed in Continental, southern Europe, and beyond -- Southern European characteristics in the broader context -- Bismarck, Beveridge, and making the transition -- Healthcare reform and public opinion in Continental and Southern Europe -- Examining healthcare coverage across the OECD -- Rectifying coverage gaps -- Appendix : A brief methodological note.
Summary: "In recent decades, the rapid expansion of lower-quality, atypical employment has created a growing group of people excluded not only from generous labor market protections, but from welfare state coverage as well. This situation would seem to call for increased spending on the social safety net, yet governments throughout continental Europe, especially since the financial crisis, have instead been turning to austerity. As a result, they have had to choose between either extending coverage and retrenching the good benefits given to 'insiders' or maintaining the protection, coverage, and benefits of the relatively well-off at the expense of a growing class of excluded 'outsiders'. 'Expanding welfare in an age of austerity: increasing protection in an unprotected world' asks why different nations have taken different approaches in addressing - or not addressing - this problem."--Back cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
eBook eBook e-Library EBSCO Social Science Available
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In recent decades, the rapid expansion of lower-quality, atypical employment has created a growing group of people excluded not only from generous labor market protections, but from welfare state coverage as well. This situation would seem to call for increased spending on the social safety net, yet governments throughout continental Europe, especially since the financial crisis, have instead been turning to austerity. As a result, they have had to choose between either extending coverage and retrenching the good benefits given to 'insiders' or maintaining the protection, coverage, and benefits of the relatively well-off at the expense of a growing class of excluded 'outsiders'. 'Expanding welfare in an age of austerity: increasing protection in an unprotected world' asks why different nations have taken different approaches in addressing - or not addressing - this problem."--Back cover.

Struggling with persistent gaps -- A tale of two RMIs -- Public attitudes towards the unemployed in Continental, southern Europe, and beyond -- Southern European characteristics in the broader context -- Bismarck, Beveridge, and making the transition -- Healthcare reform and public opinion in Continental and Southern Europe -- Examining healthcare coverage across the OECD -- Rectifying coverage gaps -- Appendix : A brief methodological note.

Print version record.

Added to collection customer.56279.3 - Master record variable field(s) change: 072

Powered by Koha