Exclusión social y estado del bienestar

Exclusión social y estado de bienestar.- Tendencias en la desigualdad de la renta.- Las políticas redistributivas.- La pobreza: problemas conceptuales y de medición.- Factores explicativos de la pobreza.- principales tendencias de la pobreza.- Las políticas contra la pobreza: conceptos básicos.- Las políticas contra la pobreza ...

Conocimiento, periferia y desarrollo

los nuevos escenarios en la Patagonia Austral

Los diversos trabajos presentados en este libro coinciden en que la persistencia de la actual situacion economica obturara el surgimiento de nuevas estrategias de desarrollo que posibiliten al territorio patagonico apropiarse de los beneficios de la sociedad del conocimiento sobre la base de la inclusion ...

Welfare state change

towards a Third Way?

Contents/contributors Part 1: Policy Contexts and Concepts 1 Rebecca Surender: Modern Challenges to the Welfare State and the Antecedents of the Third Way 2 Stuart White: Welfare Philosophy and the Third Way 3 Giuliano Bonoli and Martin Powell: One Third Way or Several? Part ...

El Estado del Bienestar en España

Este volumen analiza críticamente la situación del Estado del Bienestar en España, tanto globalmente como en sus distintos componentes tales como la Seguridad Social, el mercado laboral con énfasis en el análisis de la precariedad, la situación de la inmigración, la calidad y la financiación ...

Social Europe

living standars and welfare states

Social Europe analyses the diverse dynamics of the lives of people across Europe. It is the first quantitative analysis of its kind to make a systematic comparison of life chances across the fifteen countries of the EU. This wide perspective enables the researchers to illustrate ...

Welfare measurement in imperfect markets

a growth theoretical approach

This book cleverly integrates the research on welfare measurement and social accounting in imperfect market economies. In their previously acclaimed volume, Welfare Measurement, Sustainability and Green National Accounting, the authors focused on the external effects associated with environmental damage and analysed their role in the ...

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 ...

Unsocial Europe

social protection or flexploitation?

This book presents a critical analysis of trends in European welfare systems and labour market policies, how and why they are changing and how they affect the daily lives of those facing unemployment or precarious work. As a contribution to debates about `globalisation' and the ...

Work to welfare

how men become detached from the labour market

Respect

In a world of inequality

The economics of social policy

Globalization and national economic welfare

Rethinking the welfare state

the political economy of pension reform

Economía y bienestar social en Cuba a comienzos del siglo XXI

Economía y familia

la solidaridad intergeneracional

Motivation, agency and public policy

of knights and Knave, pawns and queens

Can we rely on the altruism of professionals or the public service ethos to deliver good quality health and education services? How should patients, parents and pupils behave - as grateful recipients or active consumers? The book provides new answers to these questions, and evaluates recent ...

Renegotiating the welfare state

flexible adjustment through corporatist concentration

Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others? This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state and peak associations of employers and employees. This corporatist concertation has been blamed ...

Distant proximities. Dynamics beyond globalization

Has globalization the phenomenon outgrown "globalization" the concept? In Distant Proximities, one of America's senior scholars presents a work of sweeping vision that addresses the dizzying anxieties of the post- Cold War, post-September 11 world. Culminating the influential reassessment of international relations he began ...

Community water, community management

from system to service in rural areas

This book is based on the experience gained over twenty years of working to strengthen the capacities of rural communities to manage their own water supply systems. The day-to-day experiences of 22 communities in six different countries # with differing geographical, socio-economic and cultural settings # are ...