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Title Welfare to work in practice : social security and participation in economic and social life / edited by Peter Saunders
Published Aldershot : Ashgate, [2005]
©2005

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Description xix, 261 pages ; 24 cm
Series International studies on social security ; v. 10
International studies on social security ; v. 10
Contents Welfare to work in practice : introduction and overview / Peter Saunders -- Protection to activation : the apotheosis of work / Neil Gilbert -- Work as welfare? : lone mothers social security and employment / Jane Millar -- Bridging the welfare to work divide : economic and social participation among income support recipients in Australia / Peter Saunders -- The role of workfare in the Scandinavian model of social security : soft work incentives, skill upgrading, or quality of life improvement for the disadvantaged? / Lisbeth Pedersen and Jørgen Søndergaard -- In-work benefits : curing unemployment among the low-skilled in Germany / Martin Werding -- Financial incentives and mothers' employment : a comparative perspective / Jonathan Bradshaw, Naomi Finch, and Emese Mayhew -- Reforming the passive welfare state : Belgium's new income arrangements to make work pay in international perspective / Lieve De Lathouwer -- Dilemmas in disability activation and how Scandinavians try to live with them / Einar Overbye -- Personalised employment services for disability benefits recipients : are comparisons useful? / Patricia Thornton and Anne Corden -- Who becomes a disability benefit recipient in Sweden? / Sisko Bergendorff ... [et al.] -- Returning the long-term sick-listed to work : the effects of educational measures and employer separations in Denmark / Jan Høgelund and Anders Holm -- Disability benefits and unemployment patterns in Estonia / Orsolya Szirko
Summary "An impressive list of contributors including Jane Millar, Neil Gilbert, Martin Werding and Einar Overbye discuss a range of topics from social security and labour market issues to the needs of special groups such as lone parents, the long-term unemployed and those with a disability in relation to the new social security policy agenda. The volume will be of interest to academics and policymakers in the field."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Social Security payments
Employment participation
Welfare to work programs
Welfare policy
Social security payments
Employment participation rates
Conferences
Australia overseas comparisons
Notes Selected conference papers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Social security -- Congresses.
Social security beneficiaries -- Employment -- Congresses.
Social security -- Government policy -- Congresses.
Social security beneficiaries -- Attitudes -- Congresses.
Social participation -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
Welfare recipients -- Employment.
Social security beneficiaries -- Employment.
People with disabilities -- Employment.
Social security.
Social participation.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Saunders, Peter, 1948-
LC no. 2004020996
ISBN 0754643581 hardback
Other Titles Welfare to work in practice
Social security and participation in economic and social life