The future of welfare in a global europe / Bernd Marin (ed.).
Publication details: Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, c2015.Description: 528 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781472463081
- 1472463080
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Table of Contents;
Introduction: The future of welfare in a global Europe
Part I: From warfare to welfare and workfare.
Part II: Demographic metabolism, new measures of age and ageing, and the Active Ageing Index (AAI) 2012-2015.
Demographic metabolism: Enabling future generations.
An easily understood and intergenerationallly equitable
Normal pension age
Part III: Towards a human investment state : future-able education, skill formation, and economic-financial literacy as prerequisites of
sustainable welfare society.
Social Investment, skill and Inequality
Hard choices in education and welfare state policies
Skills, stakes and clout: early human capital foundations for Europeans welfare futures
Part IV: Class, generation, gender, and age cleavages in ageing societies.
Cleavages in ageing societies: generation, age, or class?
Women's work and pensions.
Drawing lessons from Central and Eastern Europe.
Reallocation of resources across age in a comparative European setting.
The National Transfer Accounts project.
Part V: Too sick to work? Disability, and happiness, in stressful and long-life societies.
Too sick to work? The role of mental ill-health as a driver of inactivity and long-term unemployment.
Happily ever after. The role of welfare policies.
Part VI: Fragile welfare sustainability : two model cases in point.
How sustainable is the Swedish model?
Plea for an 'Agenda 2020'
Part VII: No European social model in Europe, or towards a European social union?
No 'European social model' in Europe?
A polemic statement of disappointment by a critical proponent
The case for a European social union.
From muddling through to a sense of common purpose.
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