The Future of the Welfare State - Couverture souple

 
9780631195764: The Future of the Welfare State
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0631195769 ISBN 13 : 9780631195764
Editeur : Blackwell Publishers, 1996

Synopsis

The welfare state faces a troubled future in most Western countries. The challenge is to ensure a welfare state which can adapt flexibly to external and internal changes. The present collection of papers takes as its starting point that creating a future for the welfare state requires a better understanding of how it works as a provider of public goods and private goods, social insurance, health services, and social redistribution via taxes and benefits. It is important to study how financing and operating welfare states affect people's incentives, norms and behaviour in an environment characterized by increasing mobility of both capital and labor.

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Quatrième de couverture

The welfare state faces a troubled future in most Western countries. The challenge is to ensure a welfare state which can adapt flexibly to external and internal changes. The present collection of papers takes as its starting point that creating a future for the welfare state requires a better understanding of how it works as a provider of public goods and private goods, social insurance, health services, and social redistribution via taxes and benefits. It is important to study how financing and operating welfare states affect people′s incentives, norms and behaviour in an environment characterized by increasing mobility of both capital and labor.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The topic is the welfare state, broadly defined. The papers deal with various aspects of welfare spending, such as incentives problems, distribution consequences, financial considerations, insurance, private vs public provision, the need for reforms, etc. The contributions discuss problems of the welfare state as well as evaluations of its results.

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Éditeur
Blackwell Publishers
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0631195769
ISBN 13 
9780631195764
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
Éditeur
Andersen Torben, Sandmo Agnar, Professor Karl-Ove Moene
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Personne responsable
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