The Welfare State In Transition Economies And Accession To The Eu
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Author | : Hans-Jürgen Wagener |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Europe, Eastern |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : I. Collier |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2016-01-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0230371515 |
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Social policy in East and West finds itself today in the middle of a fundamental transition. The former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the successor states to the former Soviet Union are attempting to create the institutions needed for a modern market economy and a modern democratic welfare state. At the same time, the mature welfare states of Europe are struggling to solve the contemporary financial crisis of their systems of social entitlements. Because of fundamental economic and demographic trends, these systems will become increasingly difficult to sustain over the coming decades. The contributors overwhelmingly agree that it would be mistaken policy to simply copy the institutions of Western welfare states to the Eastern economies in transition. Instead one can learn much from the experience gathered over the past half century in Western welfare states.
Author | : N. A. Barr |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0821361198 |
Download Labor Markets and Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
'Labor Markets and Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe' summarises social policy reform during the transition and EU accession and analyses the social policy challenges which continue to face both old and new member states. Specifically, the book amplifies two sets of arguments. First, social policy under communism was in important respects well-suited to the old order andprecisely for that reasonwas systematically badly-suited to a market economy. Strategic reform directions thus followed from the nature of the transition process and from constraints imposed by EU accession. Secondly, successful accession is not the end of the story: economic and social trends over the past 50 years are creating strains for social policy which all countriesold and new memberswill have to face.This book will be of interest to readers interested in social policy, particularly those with an interest in the process of post-communist transition, in EU accession, and in future social policy challenges for the wider Europe. It should be of interest to academics in departments of economics, social policy and political science, and to policy makers, including government advisers and civil servants.
Author | : Gøsta Esping-Andersen |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1996-05-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1446227634 |
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This wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary and future changes in welfare states looks at the different trajectories of the welfare states of Europe, North America, the Antipodes, and the emerging scenarios in Latin America, East Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. Leading experts on each of these regions examine the current structures of social protection, consider the causes of the current welfare state crisis and highlight evolving trends for welfare policy. Different welfare states are shown to manifest different forms of crisis. Among the symptoms of crisis, Welfare States in Transition suggests that the effect of popluation ageing is exaggerated, and an at least equally fundamental challenge lies in the revolution of the modern family and the changing economic role of women. The contributors are sceptical about the neo-liberal formula for reform, not only because it increases inequality but also because it does not address the growing need for an active social investment policy to ensure against entrapment in poverty or low-paid jobs.
Author | : Dominique Anxo |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1849806381 |
Download The Welfare State and Life Transitions Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Welfare State and Life Transitions uses the lens of key life stages to highlight changes in these transitions and in available resources for citizen support within nine European welfare states. This timely book reveals that new life courses are found to require more, and not less welfare support, but only Sweden has developed an active life course approach and only three more could be considered supportive, in at least some life stages. For the remainder, policies were at best limited or, in Italy.s case, passive. The contributors reveal that the neglect of changing needs is leading to greater reliance on the family and the labour market, just as these support structures are becoming more unpredictable and moreunequal. They argue that alongside these new class inequalities, new forms of intergenerational inequality are also emerging, particularly in pension provision.
Author | : J.M. Van Brabant |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1461562473 |
Download Integrating Europe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Bringing the eastern European economies in transition (defined more precisely in the Introduction) under the economic, political, and secu rity umbrella of the European Union (ED) has been an ambition of many of these countries from the very start of the so-called annus mirabilis in 1989. The road to gratification of this aspiration since then has been rather bumpy, however one wants to look at recent events. Indeed, since 1989 the relationship between the EU and the economies in transition has been ebbing and flowing with the evolution of two main strands of policy stances in the EU. One has been deep skepticism about bringing these countries into the Union at all in any foreseeable future. This in spite of the fact that, after long hesitation, in mid 1993 the EU Member States committed themselves eventually to explore accession with selected transition economies, as well as Cyprus and Malta. The other has been their evolving attitude toward their own integration endeavors. Hence the dilemmas, in the EU's parlance, of the "deepening versus widening" conundrum. That indeed constitutes the paramount issue addressed in the present investigation.
Author | : Bent Greve |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2016-03-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317031024 |
Download The Future of the Welfare State Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A common belief is that the European welfare states are in a position of crisis or heading towards one with the process of globalization removing any hopes of eventual worldwide welfare. This book challenges this assumption arguing that a proper understanding of the future role of the welfare state requires a broader social perspective that encompasses the interaction of economic, political and social processes. The Future of the Welfare State provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the practical and theoretical challenges which the welfare state (and progress towards world welfare) can and must meet in the future.
Author | : P. Taylor-Gooby |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2005-08-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0230286011 |
Download Ideas and Welfare State Reform in Western Europe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The new welfare settlement in Europe involves a re-direction of policy in the context of a unified market and currency system and of more stringent economic competition. Realignment of the policy assumptions and goals of the key actors is central to this process. This book reviews the main policy paradigms and analyzes the processes whereby they have changed in the most salient policy areas, and is based on recent interviews with more than two hundred and fifty senior policy actors in seven West European countries.
Author | : Paolo Graziano |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2011-06-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0230307620 |
Download The EU and the Domestic Politics of Welfare State Reforms Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book focuses on the relationship between European integration, its outputs and national institutional and political settings. It explores the political mechanisms through which the EU plays a role in domestic social policy changes.
Author | : I. Collier |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1999-02-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780333738450 |
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Social policy in East and West finds itself today in the middle of a fundamental transition. The former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the successor states to the former Soviet Union are attempting to create the institutions needed for a modern market economy and a modern democratic welfare state. At the same time, the mature welfare states of Europe are struggling to solve the contemporary financial crisis of their systems of social entitlements. Because of fundamental economic and demographic trends, these systems will become increasingly difficult to sustain over the coming decades. The contributors overwhelmingly agree that it would be mistaken policy to simply copy the institutions of Western welfare states to the Eastern economies in transition. Instead one can learn much from the experience gathered over the past half century in Western welfare states.