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Welfare State Transformations and Inequality in OECD Countries
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Welfare State Transformations and Inequality in OECD Countries [electronic resource] / edited by Melike Wulfgramm, Tonia Bieber, Stephan Leibfried.
ISBN
9781137511843
Publication
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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XVII, 321 p. : online resource.
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Summary
This book analyzes how recent welfare state transformations across advanced democracies have shaped social and economic disparities. The authors observe a trend from a compensatory paradigm towards supply oriented social policy, and investigate how this phenomenon is linked to distributional outcomes. How – and how much – have changes in core social policy fields alleviated or strengthened different dimensions of inequality? The authors argue that while the market has been the major cause of increasing net inequalities, the trend towards supply orientation in most social policy fields has further contributed to social inequality. The authors work from sociological and political science perspectives, examining all of the main branches of the welfare state, from health, education and tax policy, to labour market, pension and migration policy.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 03, 2017
Series
Transformations of the State
Contents
Chapter 1. Welfare State Transformation and Inequality in OECD Countries; Melike Wulfgramm, Tonia Bieber and Stephan Leibfried.-Part I. Welfare State Transformations and Inequality: Concepts and Trends
Chapter 2. Welfare State Transformation across OECD Countries: Supply Side Orientation, Individualized Outcome Risks and Dualization; Peter Starke, Melike Wulfgramm & Herbert Obinger
Chapter 3. Persistent Social and Rising Economic Inequalities: Evidence and Challenges; Olaf Groh-Samberg
Chapter 4. Philosophical Perspectives on Different Kinds of Inequalities; Stefan Gosepath
Part II. Policy Fields
Chapter 5. Taxation and Inequality: How Tax Competition has Changed the Redistributive Capacity of Nation States in the OECD; Laura Seelkopf & Hanna Lierse
Chapter 6. Keeping an Eye on IRIS: Risk and Income Solidarity in OECD Healthcare Systems; Achim Schmid, Pascal Siemsen and Ralf Götze
Chapter 7. Retirement Income Provision and Household Income: Between- and Within-Cohort Inequalities in Germany and the US since the 1980s; Jan Paul Heisig
Chapter 8. The Trilemma of Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity: Social Background, Access to Higher Education, and the Moderating Impact of Enrolment and Public Subsidization; Timm Fulge
Chapter 9. Labour Market Risks in Times of Welfare State Changes; Hanna Schwander
Chapter 10. Change of Labour Market Policies, the Gender Model and Social Inequality: Institutional Dualization revisited; Irene Dingeldey
Part III. National versus Global Inequalities
Chapter 11. Global Social Policy in the Context of Global Inequality; Alexandra Kaasch
Chapter 12. Freedom of Movement in the EU and Welfare State Closure: Welfare Regime Type, Benefit Restrictions and their Implications for Social Mobility; Christof Roos
Part IV. Conclusion
Chapter 13. The New Welfare State Constellation and Inequality: Findings and Perspectives; Tonia Bieber and Melike Wulfgramm. .
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