A handbook of comparative social policy

The current context of social policy is one in which many of the old certainties of the past have been eroded. The predominantly inward-looking, domestic preoccupation of social policy has made way for a more integrated, international and outward approach to analysis which looks beyond ...

New risk, new welfare

the transformation of the European welfare state

This book, based on brand new data from a major study and long-standing collaboration between a number of prominent European scholars, provides a fresh perspective on the future of the welfare state across the EU. Through detailed case-study analysis, it analyses the emergence of new ...

Tendencias en desigualdad y exclusión social

Tercer Foro sobre Tendencias Sociales

Este libro es una segunda edición ampliada y actualizada de la obra que con el mismo título se publicó en 1999. En el volumen actual se han incorporado nuevos capítulos y se han puesto al día los que se habían incluido en la primera edición ...

Living longer

ageing, development and social protection

Accelerated population ageing is a global trend.It has long been a significant issue for developed countries,and it is now becoming one in the developing world.The well-bieng and quality of life of older people are strongly conditioned by their capacity to manage opportunities ...

La nueva regulación legal del régimen especial de trabajadores autonómos

LA NUEVA REGULACIÓN LEGAL DEL RÉGIMEN ESPECIAL DE TRABAJADORES AUTÓNOMOS supone una monografía eminentemente práctica que pretende resolver, de un modo fácil y sencillo, las dudas que, respecto a la relación jurídica de Seguridad Social, puedan ofrecerse a los distintos colectivos de trabajadores por cuenta ...

Operations research and health care

a handbook of methods and applications

The decision technologies, tools and theories of Operations Research and Management Sciences have long been applied to a wide range of issues and problems within health care. To date, however, there has been no single handbook that synthesizes the wide applicability of such techniques. The ...

Saving social security

a balanced approach

While everyone agrees that Social Security is a vital and necessary government program, there have been widely divergent plans for reforming it. Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag, two of the nation#s foremost economists, propose a reform plan that would rescue the program ...

The price of smoking

What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoker's family, and society? This longitudinal study on the private and social costs of smoking calculates that the cost of smoking to a 24-year-old woman smoker is $86,000 over a lifetime; for a ...

Directivos y mandos en materia de seguridad y salud en el trabajo

El papel desempeñado por los puestos de dirección y mando en la empresa,cuando se enfrentan a la realidad de la prevención de riesgos laborales y a su normativa reguladora,constituye hoy día uno de los temas con más trascendencia y complejidad en la materia ...

International handbook on the economics of education

This book is unique as it presents an academic and a practical aspect on managing pension funds to clarify the global debate on social security. The authors establish the basic choices in designating any system to help policy makers develop the system that achieves their ...

The economics of an aging society

This text provides an in-depth analysis of the economic and policy issues associated with individual and population aging. It has a strong policy focus based on demographic and economic analysis, making it both accessible and challenging to readers with limited mathematical background. The discussion concentrates ...

Developing an annuity market in Europe

On the premise that pension provision in Europe will dramatically change over the next few decades, this book concentrates on the funded component of pension wealth, and specifically on annuities # financial products that, on the basis of actuarial equivalence, allow the conversion of wealth into ...

Reforming pensions in Europe

evolution of pensions financing and resources of retirement income

Since the early 1990s the countries of the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe have been involved in the process of reforming their retirement income systems. The principal objective of these reforms is to contain the cost of pay-as-you-go public pension in the face ...

Public pension fund management

governance, accountability, and investment policies

Until recently, #public pension fund management# is an area that received little attention by policymakers, practitioners, and development agencies. Even though there is growing interest in the public pension fund reform both in emerging and developed countries, there are not many resources available in the ...

La exclusión

bordeando sus fronteras: definiciones y matices

Los fenómenos de exclusión son hoy día tan graves como numerosos: no podemos contentarnos ya con meras aproximaciones empíricas, ni con indignaciones excesivamente moralistas. La exclusión pone en juego el destino de una cantidad creciente de sujetos particulares y de grupos sociales, - en términos de ...

The economics of an ageing population

macroeconomic issues

The Economics of an Ageing Population studies the effects of demographic transition on the economies of industrialised countries. The authors demonstrate that an ageing population does not necessarily lead to a reduction in growth, providing that the working population are more productive and save a ...

¿Es realmente libre el comercio?

Remunerazione e previdenza dei ministri di culto

Sociedad del trabajo y sociedad del conocimiento en la era de la globalización

Las nuevas fronteras del empleo