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Titolo: |
Disability Benefits, Welfare Reform and Employment Policy [[electronic resource] /] / edited by C. Lindsay, D. Houston
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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 ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-349-34600-4 |
1-137-31427-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910791091103321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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