Minimum Income Protection in Flux - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minimum Income Protection in Flux write by I. Marx. This book was released on 2012-11-19. Minimum Income Protection in Flux available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The current economic crisis has presented itself as a formidable challenge to the welfare states of Europe. It is more relevant than ever to ask: do existing minimum income protection schemes succeed in adequately protecting citizens, be it whether they are excluded from work, working, retired, or having children? Drawing on in-depth and up-to-date institutional data from across Europe and the US, this volume details the reality of minimum income protection policies over time. Including contributions from leading scholars in the field, each chapter provides a systematic cross-national analysis of minimum income protection policies, developing concrete policy guidance on an issue at the heart of the European debate.
The Politics of Minimum Income
The Politics of Minimum Income - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Minimum Income write by Marcello Natili. This book was released on 2018-12-14. The Politics of Minimum Income available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Minimum income schemes (MIS) have become key social protection institutions for European citizens, but we know little regarding the logic and dynamics of institutional change in this policy field. This book provides an analytical model that will facilitate an understanding of the scope and direction of recent reforms, offering insight into the conditions under which minimum income schemes are introduced, expanded or retrenched. Natili presents a comparative analysis of policy trajectories of minimum income schemes in Italy and Spain between the mid-1980s and 2015. Although these two countries had similar points of departure, and faced comparable functional pressures and institutional constraints, they experienced remarkably different developments in this policy field in the last two decades. This comparative analysis provides empirical evidence of the impacts of different types of credit-claiming dynamics resulting from the interaction of socio-political demand with political supply. The Politics of Minimum Income also assesses the reform processes both in countries that have introduced MIS in the age of austerity (such as Portugal) and in countries that have retrenched them (Austria and Denmark).
Minimum Income Schemes in Europe
Minimum Income Schemes in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minimum Income Schemes in Europe write by International Labour Organisation. This book was released on 2003. Minimum Income Schemes in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates the paradox of rich countries of Western Europe, who have high levels of poverty whilst proclaiming its eradication as one of the primary social and economic goals. It looks at how policies often do not achieve their goals, why countries need mechanisms to reduce wage inequality and why they choose to provide universal benefits instead of systems of selective benefits targeted at the poor. Along with cross-countries comparisons, the volume also presents analysis of the minimum income in France, Portugal, Italy, Finland, Ireland, Belgium, and Greece.
Basic Income
Basic Income - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Basic Income write by Philippe Van Parijs. This book was released on 2017-03-20. Basic Income available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Powerful as well as highly engaging—a brilliant book.” —Amartya Sen A Times Higher Education Book of the Week It may sound crazy to pay people whether or not they’re working or even looking for work. But the idea of providing an unconditional basic income to everyone, rich or poor, active or inactive, has long been advocated by such major thinkers as Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, and John Kenneth Galbraith. Now, with the traditional welfare state creaking under pressure, it has become one of the most widely debated social policy proposals in the world. Basic Income presents the most acute and fullest defense of this radical idea, and makes the case that it is our most realistic hope for addressing economic insecurity and social exclusion. “They have set forth, clearly and comprehensively, what is probably the best case to be made today for this form of economic and social policy.” —Benjamin M. Friedman, New York Review of Books “A rigorous analysis of the many arguments for and against a universal basic income, offering a road map for future researchers.” —Wall Street Journal “What Van Parijs and Vanderborght bring to this topic is a deep understanding, an enduring passion and a disarming optimism.” —Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post
Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction
Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction write by Bea Cantillon. This book was released on 2014. Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Disappointing poverty trends suggest limitations to employment-centred welfare reform and downward pressures on the redistributive capacity of welfare states. Innovative empirical analyses of the links between poverty, labour market participation and social redistribution are presented. The observations are linked with a broader perspective on the socio-economic, demographic and paradigmatic evolutions in contemporary welfare states.
