Social Policy and the Labour Market

by Theodore R. Marmor and Philip R. De Jong

Book Overview

While mature welfare states are being trimmed and privatized, new social welfare arrangements are implemented in formerly communist and newly industrialized countries. The papers in this volume bring together these different worlds, but also different academic approaches. Micro-economic analyses of social insurance and welfare systems are joined with broader political descriptions of social policy in such disparate regions as Scandinavia, China, Italy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840141565
• ISBN13: 9781840141566
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
• Length: 412 Pages