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Disability Benefits, Welfare Reform and Employment Policy [[electronic resource] /] / edited by C. Lindsay, D. Houston



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Titolo: Disability Benefits, Welfare Reform and Employment Policy [[electronic resource] /] / edited by C. Lindsay, D. Houston Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013
Edizione: 1st ed. 2013.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
Disciplina: 368.38/60941
368.3860941
Soggetto topico: Welfare state
Social policy
Public finance
Social service 
Welfare economics
Political science
Politics of the Welfare State
Social Policy
Public Economics
Social Care
Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy
Political Science
Soggetto geografico: Europe Social policy
Persona (resp. second.): LindsayC
HoustonD
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Disability Benefits, Welfare Reform and Employment Policy  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-349-34600-4
1-137-31427-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910791091103321
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Serie: Work and Welfare in Europe