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Active Labor Market Program
AFDC Benefit
AFDC Caseload
AFDC Grant
AFDC Mother
AFDC Program
AFDC Recipient
assistance
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Author_Rebecca A. Van Voorhis
Bruno Theret
Cassa Integrazione Guadagni
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comparative social policy
conditional cash transfers
cross-national welfare activation strategies
Dime
employment policy evaluation
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Espen Dahl
Francois Xavier Merrien
income maintenance programs
Jean-Claude Barbier
Jon Anders Dropping
Ken Judge
labor
labor market integration
Make Work Pay
Mandatory Work Requirements
market
Municipal Social Assistance
National Labour Market Board
Neung-Hoo Park
Ordinary Unemployment Benefits
Piet K. Keizer
Rebecca A. Van Voorhis
Reduced Benefit Rates
Regional Social Insurance Offices
Ross Mackay
Short Term Compensation
Sickness Leave
social
Social Assistance
Social Minima Incomes
Social Security Schemes
Solidaristic Assistance
Sven E. O. Hort
Valeria Fargion
Welfare Reforms
welfare state analysis
Work Test Requirement
Young Men
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- ISBN 9780765807670
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The last decade has witnessed a conspicuous alteration in policies protecting unemployed people in modern welfare states. Social policies are increasingly designed to encourage economic independence. Policy makers have introduced a wide range of reforms linking disability, unemployment, and welfare programs cash benefits to work-oriented measures.Welfare policies are being framed by a new emphasis on recipients' obligations, emphasizing that the receipt of benefits creates a responsibility to take action towards becoming self-reliant. The objective is to minimize the duration of dependence or improve the well-being of family or community. Activating the Unemployed addresses this growing interest in work-oriented measures. This represents a shift in the dominant discourse on social welfare from focus on the citizen's rights to social benefits to emphasis on their responsibilities to work and lead an active life. In this volume, a distinguished array of international contributors provide cross-cultural perspectives to analyze recent diverse policy initiatives to activate the unemployed in nine countries-Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Each provides a systematic account of the background, design, implementation, and results of employment-oriented measures. Collectively they permit comparison of organized responses to common problems in the areas of public assistance (welfare), unemployment, and disability, among others. Further chapters seek to broaden perspectives on policy options, the issues raised, and lessons learned in the course of activating the unemployed. This thorough and insightful account addresses significant contemporary issues and concerns about welfare, social security, and unemployment. It will aid policy makers, professionals, and scholars in assessing current trends in welfare in various countries throughout the world.
Neil Gilbert, Rebecca A. Van Voorhis
