Age in the Welfare State - The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children

Informationen zum Autor Julia Lynch is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her recent dissertation! on which this book is based! garnered the Gabriel Almond prize of the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in comparative politics. Professor Lynch was previously a scholar in the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholars program at Harvard University! and she has been a visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence and the Luxembourg Income Study project in Luxembourg Klappentext This book is about why state spending on things like pensions! unemployment benefits! and family allowances is tilted towards the elderly in some countries but not in others. The novel way of looking at what welfare states do leads to very different conclusions from the standard literature. Zusammenfassung This book is about why state spending on things like pensions! unemployment benefits! and family allowances is tilted towards the elderly in some countries but not in others. The novel way of looking at what welfare states do leads to very different conclusions from the standard literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Measuring the age of welfare; 3. Age and the welfare state: theories and hypotheses; 4. Family allowances: wages! taxes! and the appeal to the self-employed; 5. Benefits for the unemployed: young and old in the fortress labor market; 6. Old-age pensions: the architecture of spending; 7. Conclusion.

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• Authors: Julia Lynch, Julia (Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Pro Lynch, Julia (Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Lynch
• Assisted by: Robert H. Bates (Editor), Peter Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.06.2006
• EAN: 9780521849982
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84998-2
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education