Age in the welfare state : the origins of social spending on pensioners, workers, and children / / Julia Lynch

• Autore: Lynch Julia <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 223 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 362
• Soggetto topico: Public welfare; Age groups - Government policy; Age discrimination; Patronage, Political
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-217) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Age in the welfare state
• ISBN: 1-107-16494-X; 1-280-47997-3; 0-511-22050-2; 0-511-22114-2; 0-511-21916-4; 0-511-31627-5; 0-511-60692-3; 0-511-21984-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824266403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in comparative politics.