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Universality and Selectivity in Income Support

Sheila Shaver
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aged income support
Aged Single Women
Assets Tests
Australian age pension
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Average Relative Incomes
Average Relative Levels
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comparative social policy
cross-national pension system comparison
Data Sets
elderly income security
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Flat Rate Pensions
High Effective Marginal Tax Rates
Income Support
Income Support Systems
international social survey programme
International Social Survey Programme Questionnaire
Li Data
Luxembourg income study
Median Equivalent Disposable Income
Median Equivalent Income
OECD Equivalence Scale
OECD Scale
pension policy reform
Pension Spending
poverty measurement methods
Private Pension Coverage
Retirement Income Policy
Setting Trade Offs
social expenditure
social expenditure trends
Social Insurance Countries
Swedish Data Sets
Tall Poppies
UK Response
welfare state analysis
West Germany

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138390270
  • Weight: 470g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 219mm
  • Publication Date: 20 May 2019
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

First published in 1997, this report examines the classic social policy question of whether pensions should be paid only to those with relatively few other resources, so that scarce funds go to the people who need them most, or whether it is more just, and pensions are more willingly funded, when everyone can expect to get one in their turn.

Since the 1980s, the scale of social expenditure has come into question in most advanced industrial nations. The large shar of this expenditure devoted to the support of the aged, amidst growing numbers of old and very old people, has put age pensions at the centre of this discussion.

Sheila Shaver examines this classic question in a comparative analysis of income support in six countries, drawing on data from the Luxembourg Income Study and the International Social Survey Programme. The statistical studies are embedded in a discussion of social policy and citizenship; need, poverty and social cohesion; and the structure and restructuring of welfare states.
About Sheila Shaver
Sheila Shaver- Professor of Social Policy, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia

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