The European Face of Social Security

by Berghman, Jos; Cantillon, Bea

• ISBN13: 9781856286039
• ISBN10: 1856286037
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-11-01
• Publisher: Avebury

Table of Contents

About the contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
The Methodology of Poverty Measurement
Poverty measures in comparative research	p. 3
Non-monetary indicators of poverty	p. 24
Deprivation standards and style of living indices	p. 43
Rediscovering budget standards	p. 60
The Impact of Social Security
Approaches to comparative social policy analysis	p. 79
An introductory note on measuring the adequacy of social security	p. 94
The impact of social security in the European Community	p. 109
Universalism versus selectivity in unemployment schemes	p. 122
The distributive effects of shifting from public to private provision of retirement income	p. 145
Matthew effects in policy implementation	p. 157
Goal displacement and the use of social security benefits	p. 172
Policy Paradigms
Citizen's Income	p. 181
A proposal for social security reform in Belgium	p. 199
The Swedish model	p. 214
Basic schemes in the Netherlands	p. 239
Proposals for flat-rate public pensions in the German debate	p. 261
Prevention and related policy issues	p. 281
The European Perspective
Coordination of social security systems in Europe	p. 311
Minimum income policy in Europe	p. 321
Towards a convergence of policies	p. 337
Social security in Eastern Europe	p. 356
Summary and Conclusions
The future of social security in Europe	p. 369
Appendix	p. 399
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