Institutions for Social Well Being (eBook, PDF)

Alternatives for Europe
Redaktion: Costabile, L.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the efficiency and effectiveness of economic policies in Europe, and explores the implications for social equity. It argues for an integrated approach to economic and social objectives, and discusses the ways in which welfare states and institutions can contribute to equity and efficiency objectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230584358
• Artikelnr.: 45965402

Autorenporträt

ROBERTO ARTONI Professor of Public Economics, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy TONY ATKINSON Professor of Economics, University of Oxford; Fellow, Nuffield College, UK FRANCESCA BETTIO Professor of Labour Economics, University of Siena, Italy SAMUEL BOWLES Professor of Economics, University of Siena, Italy; Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program, Santa Fe Institute ALESSANDRA CASARICO Associate Professor of Public Economics, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy MASSIMO D'ANTONI Associate Professor of Public Economics, University of Siena, Italy BJÖRN A. GUSTAFSSON Professor, Department of Social Work, Göteborg University, Sweden; Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany ARJUN JAYADEV Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA TERESA MUNZI Researcher, LIS (Luxembourg Income Study) UGO PAGANO Director, Doctoral School in Economics and President, Graduate School S. Chiara, University of Siena; Visiting Professor, CEU (Budapest), Hungary JANNEKE PLANTENGA Professor, Utrecht School of Economics, The Netherlands ROBERTO SCAZZIERI Professor of Economic Analysis, University of Bologna, Italy; Senior Member, Gonville and Caius College and Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK TIMOTHY M. SMEEDING Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Administration, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, USA; Founding Director, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University; Founder andDirector Emeritus, Luxembourg Income Study Project

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; L.Costabile European Union Social Policy in a Globalising Context; A.B.Atkinson Conditions of Social Vulnerability, Work and Low Income: Evidence for Europe in Comparative Perspective; T.Munzi & T.Smeeding The Enforcement-Equality Tradeoff; S.Bowles & A.Jayadev Insurance, Redistribution and the Welfare State: Economic Theory and International Comparisons; R.Artoni & A.Casarico Social Models, Growth and Key Currencies; L.Costabile & R.Scazzieri Care Regimes and the European Employment Rate; F.Bettio & J.Plantenga The Swedish Model in the Era of Integration and Globalisation; B.Gustafsson Cultural Diversity and Economic Solidarity; M.D'Antoni & U.Pagano Conclusion; L.Costabile