Age in the Welfare State di Julia (Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Lynch edito da Cambridge University Press
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Age in the Welfare State

The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children

EAN:

9780521615167

ISBN:

052161516X

Pagine:
246
Formato:
Paperback
Lingua:
Inglese
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Descrizione Age in the Welfare State

This book asks why some countries devote the lion's share of their social policy resources to the elderly, while others have a more balanced repertoire of social spending. Far from being the outcome of demands for welfare spending by powerful age-based groups in society, the 'age' of welfare is an unintended consequence of the way that social programs are set up. The way that politicians use welfare state spending to compete for votes, along either programmatic or particularistic lines, locks these early institutional choices into place. So while society is changing - aging, divorcing, moving in and out of the labor force over the life course in new ways - social policies do not evolve to catch up. The result, in occupational welfare states like Italy, the United States, and Japan, is social spending that favors the elderly and leaves working-aged adults and children largely to fend for themselves.

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