| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Broadening perspectives on social policy |
| Contents |
Assessing the evidence base on health, employability and the labour market : lessons for activation in the UK -- Disability benefits in an age of austerity -- From impairment to incapacity : educational inequalities in disabled people's ability to work -- "Keeping meself to meself" : how social networks can influence narratives of stigma and identity for long-term sickness benefits recipients -- Measuring the impacts of health conditions on work incapacity : evidence from the British Household Panel Survey -- The influence of presenting health condition on eventual return to work for individuals receiving health-related welfare benefits -- A review of health-related support provision within the UK work programme : what's on the menu? -- Supporting the UK's workless : an international comparative perspective |
| Summary |
Bringing together researchers from the fields of social policy, economics, sociology and clinical psychology, this book offers new evidence on the inter-related problems faced by disability claimants, and identifies important lessons for policy. Explores how reducing the level of UK benefit claiming among those with health limitations has been a priority for successive governments Argues that current policy fails to reflect the evidence that people on long-term disability benefits face a complex combination of barriers to work and social inclusion Demonstrates that there is a need for conti |
| Notes |
"Originally published as Volume 49, Issue 2 of Social Policy & Administration Book compilation." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Welfare economics.
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Medical economics -- Great Britain
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Unemployment -- Great Britain
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Unemployed -- Services for -- Great Britain
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Medical economics
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Unemployed -- Services for
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Unemployment
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Welfare economics
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lindsay, Colin (Researcher), editor.
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Greve, Bent, editor.
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Cabras, Ignazio, editor.
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Ellison, Nicholas, 1952- editor.
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Kellett, Steve (Psychologist), editor.
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| LC no. |
2015033088 |
| ISBN |
9781119145523 |
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111914552X |
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9781119145509 |
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1119145503 |
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