| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 295 pages) : illustrations |
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Cover; HOUSING ALLOWANCES INCOMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 1. Housing allowances in context; Introduction; Shifting assistance; The role of housing allowances; Designing housing allowances; Moral hazard: housing and labour market disincentives; Fiscal pressures; This book; 2. Housing allowances and the restructuring of the Australian welfare state; Introduction; The context for government housing assistance in Australia; Separate and parallel development: housing allowances within the income support and housing systems |
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The role and design of housing allowancesThe impact of housing allowances; Policy debates: risks and reforms; Developing the not-for-profit housing sector; Conclusion; 3. The New Zealand experience of housing allowances; Introduction; Housing allowances in context; The role and design of housing allowances after the 1992 reforms; The impact of housing allowances; Policy debates and reform; Future role of housing allowances within the National Housing Strategy; Conclusion; 4. Canadian housing allowances; Introduction; Housing allowances in context |
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The role and design of Canadian housing allowancesThe impact of housing allowances; Policy debates and reform; Conclusion; 5. Housing allowances American style: the Housing Choice Voucher programme; Introduction; Housing policy context; Social welfare context; Housing Voucher programme design; Correlates, outcomes and impacts of housing vouchers; Current policy debates; Conclusion; 6. Housing Benefit in Britain: a troubled history and uncertain future; Introduction; Context; Origins and development; Housing Benefit design; The role and impact of Housing Benefit; Low-income homeowners |
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Housing Benefit reformImpact of the LHA; Conclusion; 7. Housing allowances in France; Introduction; Social welfare in France; The housing allowance regime; The impact of housing allowances; Adverse impacts of the housing allowance regime; Conclusion; 8. Housing allowances in Germany; Introduction; Housing allowances in context; A short history of Wohngeld; Calculating Wohngeld: a task for specialists; Housing assistance for social security benefit recipients; The impact of housing allowances; Policy debates and reform; Appendix |
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9. Housing allowances in the Netherlands: the struggle for budgetary controllabilityIntroduction; Housing allowances and housing policy; Developments in the Dutch housing allowances scheme 1975-2005; Dilemmas in designing the housing allowance scheme; Future challenges; Conclusion; 10. Housing allowance systems in Sweden; Introduction; The development of housing allowances; Housing allowances and supplement in context; The role and design of housing allowance systems; The impact of housing allowances; Policy debates and reform; Conclusion |
| Summary |
This book challenges the common view that social protection is exclusively a national concern with EU social policy fragmented and merely symbolic. Through eleven country studies, the book reveals that EU-level developments increasingly interact with social protection in all countries - a remarkable transformation from ten years ago. Using the same thematic framework, the book systematically compares how Europeanisation of social protection differs across countries chosen to reflect increasing EU diversity. For each country, specialists in social protection evaluate the form and extent of Europeanisation, comparing national strategies with the European social model. They examine recent reforms and responses to EU initiatives, including the Lisbon strategy and the open method of coordination, the extension of the internal market to services, the Economic and Monetary Union and EU enlargement. Differences in Europeanisation reflect not only different political legacies but also different adjustment pressures in terms of national welfare regime and degree of competitiveness. "Europeanisation of social protection" brings together both new evidence and new perspectives, making it essential reading for everyone interested in the changing patterns of social policy in Europe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Housing subsidies -- Great Britain
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
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Housing subsidies
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kemp, Peter, 1955-
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| ISBN |
9781847422446 |
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1847422446 |
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1281741582 |
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9781281741585 |
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1447302508 |
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9781447302506 |
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9786611741587 |
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6611741585 |
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