Welfare States in Transition

Name: Welfare States in Transition
Author: I. Collier

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels

Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 1999

ISBN13: 9780333738450

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Palgrave Macmillan UK e druk, 1999 9780333738450

Onderdeel van serie Studies in Economic Transition

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Social policy in East and West finds itself today in the middle of a fundamental transition. The former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the successor states to the former Soviet Union are attempting to create the institutions needed for a modern market economy and a modern democratic welfare state. At the same time, the mature welfare states of Europe are struggling to solve the contemporary financial crisis of their systems of social entitlements. Because of fundamental economic and demographic trends, these systems will become increasingly difficult to sustain over the coming decades. The contributors overwhelmingly agree that it would be mistaken policy to simply copy the institutions of Western welfare states to the Eastern economies in transition. Instead one can learn much from the experience gathered over the past half century in Western welfare states.

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ISBN13:9780333738450

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:gebonden

Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

Hoofdrubriek:Economie

Serie:Studies in Economic Transition

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List of Maps and Figures Biographical Notes Preface Introduction; I.Collier and H.Tomann PART I: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES OF THE MARKET SOCIETY The Market Economy and its Ethical Infrastructure; M.Bohata Comment; E. Scarbrough Functional Change in Property Rights in the Welfare State - Lessons from the Federal Republic of Germany; H.Roggemann Comment; R.A. Brand The State of Corporatism in a Central Europe in Transition; R.Heinisch PART II: SOCIAL POLICY IN TRANSITION The Role of Social Policy During the Transformation in Central Europe; O.Scholz and H.Tomann Comment; E.Kirchner Political Economy of Social Welfare Reform: the Parliamentary Election of 1996 in the Czech Republic; F.Turnovec Comment; K.A.Konrad The Enlargement of the European Union and the Harmonisation of Public Pension Systems; O. Schneider Comment; C.Ross PART III: DYNAMICS OF INCOME INEQUALITY Social Cohesion and Transition Dynamics; J.Hölscher Income Distribution in Transition Economies and its Dynamics; M.Tegze Comment; H.Weisfeld The Share and Position of Minimum Income Categories of Households in the Czech Republic; M.Vavrejnova Comment; M.Beblo Index