03749nam 2200613 a 450 991080801970332120200520144314.01-349-34600-41-137-31427-310.1057/9781137314277(CKB)2550000001190145(EBL)1209500(OCoLC)844772775(SSID)ssj0000889778(PQKBManifestationID)11502938(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000889778(PQKBWorkID)10882921(PQKB)10501940(DE-He213)978-1-137-31427-7(MiAaPQ)EBC1209500(EXLCZ)99255000000119014520130415d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDisability benefits, welfare reform and employment policy /edited by Colin Lindsay and Donald Houston1st ed. 2013.New York Palgrave Macmillan20131 online resource (264 p.)Work and welfare in EuropeDescription based upon print version of record.0-230-34994-3 1-299-64329-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Fit for work? : representations and explanations of the disability benefits : crisis in the UK and beyond / Colin Lindsay and Donald Houston -- Disability benefits in the UK : an issue health or jobs? / Christina Beatty and Steve Fothergill -- A history of work-disability / John Macnicol -- Are incapacity benefit claimants beyond employment? : exploring issues of employability / Anne Green and Ian Shuttleworth -- Redefining "fit for work" : welfare reform and the introduction of employment support allowance / Helen Barnes and Paul Sissons -- A health problem? health and employability in the UK labour market / Jon Warren, Kayleigh Garthwaite and Clare Bambra -- The interaction of health, labour market conditions and long-term sickness benefit claims in a post-industrial city : a Glasgow case study / David Webster, Judith Brown, Ewan B. Macdonald and Ivan Turok -- The impact of the UK's disability benefit reforms / Christina Beatty, Steve Fothergill and Donald Houston -- Germany : attempting to activate the long-term unemployed with reduced working capacity / Martin Brussig and Matthias Knuth -- Incapacity benefits : change and continuity in the Swedish welfare state / Rickard Ulmestig -- From dutch disease to Dutch fitness? : two decades of disability crisis in the Netherlands / Rik van Berkel -- New Zealand's reform of sickness benefit and invalid's benefit / Neil Lunt and Daniel Horsfall -- Fit for purpose? : lessons for policies to address the disability benefits / Donald Houston and Colin Lindsay.This book aims to tackle the issues that are central to understanding and addressing one of the most important employment policy problems facing governments in the UK and beyond: the high number of people of working age claiming 'disability' or 'incapacity' benefits.Work and welfare in Europe.Disability insuranceEuropePeople with disabilitiesEmploymentEuropeEuropeSocial policyDisability insurancePeople with disabilitiesEmployment368.38/60941Lindsay Colin(Researcher)1759852Houston Donald1759853MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808019703321Disability benefits, welfare reform and employment policy4198517UNINA