Wildy Logo
(020) 7242 5778
enquiries@wildy.com

Book of the Month

Cover of Company Directors: Duties, Liabilities and Remedies

Company Directors: Duties, Liabilities and Remedies

Edited by: Mark Arnold KC, Simon Mortimore KC
Price: £275.00

Lord Denning: Life, Law and Legacy



  


Welcome to Wildys

Watch


NEW EDITION Pre-order Mortgage Receivership: Law and Practice



 Stephanie Tozer, Cecily Crampin, Tricia Hemans
Practical guidance to relevant law & procedure


Offers for Newly Called Barristers & Students

Special Discounts for Newly Called & Students

Read More ...


Secondhand & Out of Print

Browse Secondhand Online

Read More...


What Future for Social Security?

Jochen ClasenUniversity of Sterling, Scotland

ISBN13: 9789041116710
ISBN: 9041116710
Published: July 2001
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Format: Hardback
Price: £135.00



Despatched in 11 to 13 days.

It is widely assumed today that the ""welfare state"" is contracting or retrenching as an effect of the close scrutiny to which entitlement to social-security benefits is being subjected in most developed countries. In this book, 15 authorities from nine different countries - the UK, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Norway and the US - investigate to what extent this assumption is warranted.;The papers were originally presented at a Conference on ""The Future of Social Security"" held at the University of Stirling in June 2000. Taking into account developments and initiatives at every administrative level from sub-national employment agencies to the OECD and the World Bank, they draw on both data and theories in a broad spectrum of related disciplines, including political science, economics, sociology and law. Detailed materials allow the reader to formulate well-defined responses to such questions as: is there indeed waning public support for social security?; is the ""demographic time bomb"" of an ageing population as serious a problem as we are often led to believe?; how seriously do supranational reform proposals tend to underestimate cross-national differences? to what degree is ""activation policy"" merely rhetorical?; to what extent do employment-office staff reformulate and redefine policies ""on the ground"" to accommodate specific case-by-case realities?;Specific criteria for entitlement (such as disability) and such central issues as ""gendered"" assumptions, access to benefit programmes and the involvement of trade unions are examined in a variety of contexts. As an authoritative assessment of the current state of social-security reform - its critical issues, its direction, and its potential impacts - this book should prove to be of value to all professionals and officials concerned with social programmes at any government level.

Contents:
List of Figures. List of Tables. Notes on the Contributors.
1. Social Security in the New Millennium; J. Clasen. Part I. Debates.
2. Rising Tides and Rusty Boats: Economic Position of the Poor in 1985-1995; O. Kangas.
3. Popular Support for Social Security. A Sociological Perspective; W. van Oorschot.
4. Non-Discriminating Social Policy? Policy Scenarios for Meeting Needs without Categorisation; H. Bolderson, D. Mabbett.
5. Equality, Employment, and State Social Policies: A Gendered Perspective; A. Shola Orloff.
6. Europeanisation and Decentralisation of Welfare 'Safety Nets'; L. Moreno. Part II. Reforms. A. Reforms in Theoretical Perspective.
7. Beyond Retrenchment: Four Problems in Current Welfare State Research and One Suggestion How to Overcome Them; B. Palier.
8. Change without Challenge? Welfare States, Social Construction of Challenge and Dynamics of Path Dependency; J. Goul Andersen. B. Reforming Pension Systems.
9. Public Expenditure and Population Ageing: Why Families of Nations are Different; F.G. Castles.
10. Ageing and Public Pension Reforms in Western Europe and North America: Patterns and Politics; K. Hinrichs.
11. The Redistributional Impact of a World Bank 'Pension Regime'; E. Overbye. C. Activation Reforms.
12. Activating Welfare States. How Social Policies Can Promote Employment; J. Kvist.
13. Welfare to Work and the Organisation of Opportunity: European and American Approaches from a British Perspective; M. Evans.
14. Activating the Unemployed: The Street-Level Implementation of UK Policy; S. Wright. Bibliography.

Series: Series in Employment and Social Policy

The Changing Institutional Face of British Employment Relations ISBN 9789041125415
Published March 2006
Kluwer Law International
£130.00
Collective Agreements and Individual Contracts of Employment
ISBN 9789041121905
Published October 2003
Kluwer Law International
£188.00
Effective Enforcement of EC Labour Law ISBN 9789041121608
Published May 2003
Kluwer Law International
£170.00
A Decade Beyond Maastricht: the European Social Dialogue Revisited ISBN 9789041121639
Published January 2003
Kluwer Law International
£121.00
The Legal Protection of the Pregnant Worker in the European Community ISBN 9789041118424
Published August 2002
Kluwer Law International
£233.00
From Rights to Management
Terry CarneyFaculty of Law, University of Sydney, Australia, Gaby . Ramia
ISBN 9789041118899
Published August 2002
Kluwer Law International
£135.00
Quality of Work and Employee Involvement in Europe
ISBN 9789041118851
Published August 2002
Kluwer Law International
£170.00
Dutch Social Security Law in an International Context
Frans PenningsTilburg University, Netherlands
ISBN 9789041118875
Published July 2002
Kluwer Law International
£154.00
Labour Law, Human Rights and Social Justice
ISBN 9789041116970
Published November 2001
Kluwer Law International
£170.00
Legal Perspectives on Equal Treatment and Non-discrimination
ISBN 9789041116659
Published August 2001
Kluwer Law International
£197.00
£144.00
Transnational Labour Regulation ISBN 9789041115836
Published June 2001
Kluwer Law International
£154.00
The ILO and the Social Challenges of the 21st Century
ISBN 9789041115720
Published April 2001
Kluwer Law International
£126.00
Job Creation and Labour Law ISBN 9789041114327
Published September 2000
Kluwer Law International
£183.00