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European Social Policy And The Covid-19 Pandemic - Challenges To National Welfare And Eu Policy

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 This is an open access title available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and select open access locations.During the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, social policy was one of the most important strategies used by governments to help mitigate the crisis. European Social Policy and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges to National Welfare and EU Policy provides an encompassing and longer-term analysis of the social policy responses of European countries, as well as the European Union (EU), to the challenges of the pandemic. The book asks in which direction the European welfare states, on the one hand, and EU social policy, on the other, are developing as a result of the pandemic with respect to polity, politics, and policy instruments.European Social Policy and the COVID-19 Pandemic addresses several questions, such as what medium- and long-term effects will the current social policy crisis responses have on the different welfare states? Will the partly improvised, partly only temporary but in every respect diverse and often unprecedented measures lead to novel reform trajectories or even a new welfare state model? What new forms of international cooperation and conflict resolution mechanisms may arise within the social policy domain of the EU?The questions raised not only concern the future of welfare states in Europe but also EU-level social-policy making and European integration in general. The chapters--written by experts on law, political science, social policy, and sociology--build on various methodological backgrounds and encompass single case studies, comparative policy analyses, and discourse-analytical perspectives.
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European Social Policy And The Covid-19 Pandemic - Challenges To National Welfare And Eu Policy

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 This is an open access title available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and select open access locations.During the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, social policy was one of the most important strategies used by governments to help mitigate the crisis. European Social Policy and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges to National Welfare and EU Policy provides an encompassing and longer-term analysis of the social policy responses of European countries, as well as the European Union (EU), to the challenges of the pandemic. The book asks in which direction the European welfare states, on the one hand, and EU social policy, on the other, are developing as a result of the pandemic with respect to polity, politics, and policy instruments.European Social Policy and the COVID-19 Pandemic addresses several questions, such as what medium- and long-term effects will the current social policy crisis responses have on the different welfare states? Will the partly improvised, partly only temporary but in every respect diverse and often unprecedented measures lead to novel reform trajectories or even a new welfare state model? What new forms of international cooperation and conflict resolution mechanisms may arise within the social policy domain of the EU?The questions raised not only concern the future of welfare states in Europe but also EU-level social-policy making and European integration in general. The chapters--written by experts on law, political science, social policy, and sociology--build on various methodological backgrounds and encompass single case studies, comparative policy analyses, and discourse-analytical perspectives.
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Children And Young People'S Participation In Child Protection - International Research And Practical Applications

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 Children''s participation in child protection has become a burgeoning field of interest for scholars and practitioners in the field of social work, and yet there is no edited volume that weaves together recent international contributions on the topic. This volume fills that gap, beginning with the assumption that children can and should have agency in decisions that affect their lives. Child protection is understood as protection from violence in the family and from violence in wider society. Children and youth may encounter public child protection systems in several instances: during child protection investigations, when children receive support services, during decisions about children''s removals from home, and when children are in foster, kin, or residential care. Children may experience systemic violence as a lack of personal and economic security, a lack of access to education, and other factors. This book features pathways to children and young people''s collective participation in changing child protection policies and services in multiple countries through examples of participatory research and practices promoting children and young people''s participation in child protection. It highlights the change actions and voices of empowered and marginalized children and youth in various international contexts. The global examples featured in this volume can serve as an inspiration for children and youth, children''s rights activists, child protection practitioners, students, scholars, and public policymakers to initiate, design, and implement participatory child protection policies and practices.
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Children And Young People'S Participation In Child Protection - International Research And Practical Applications

55,64€ + 10% CARD

 Children''s participation in child protection has become a burgeoning field of interest for scholars and practitioners in the field of social work, and yet there is no edited volume that weaves together recent international contributions on the topic. This volume fills that gap, beginning with the assumption that children can and should have agency in decisions that affect their lives. Child protection is understood as protection from violence in the family and from violence in wider society. Children and youth may encounter public child protection systems in several instances: during child protection investigations, when children receive support services, during decisions about children''s removals from home, and when children are in foster, kin, or residential care. Children may experience systemic violence as a lack of personal and economic security, a lack of access to education, and other factors. This book features pathways to children and young people''s collective participation in changing child protection policies and services in multiple countries through examples of participatory research and practices promoting children and young people''s participation in child protection. It highlights the change actions and voices of empowered and marginalized children and youth in various international contexts. The global examples featured in this volume can serve as an inspiration for children and youth, children''s rights activists, child protection practitioners, students, scholars, and public policymakers to initiate, design, and implement participatory child protection policies and practices.
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Revitalizing Residential Care For Children And Youth - Cross-National Trends And Challenges

by James K. Whittaker, Jorge Carlos Fernandez Del Valle, Lisa Holmes e Sigrid James

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 This volume addresses the question of how societies with developed welfare and social service systems are assessing current needs and future directions in their residential child and youth care sectors, by providing case studies and analysis across sixteen different countries.
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Public/Private Sector Mix In Healthcare Delivery - A Comparative Study

by Howard A. Palley

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 This volume examines the public/private sector mix in a variety of national healthcare systems and their interface with the goals of health equity and quality of healthcare. By examining the mix of public and private sector funding of healthcare services as well as the mix of public and private sector delivery of healthcare services in various national contexts, authors address the question of how various national systems are affected with respect to their ability, or the lack thereof, to achieve goals of health equity and quality of healthcare in an efficient manner. The significance of this collection of national studies involving the public/private sector mix is that it provides insights into the factors that enhance the public/private sector mix in fulfilling the goals of health equity and the quality of healthcare services as well as an understanding of the circumstances in which elements of the public/private sector mix may be harmful for the achievement of such goals. This volume examines these issues as they have arisen in the United States, Canada, Australia, France, Sweden, the Netherlands, Italy, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, the Russian Federation and Taiwan.
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Public/Private Sector Mix In Healthcare Delivery - A Comparative Study

by Howard A. Palley

64,91€ + 10% CARD

 This volume examines the public/private sector mix in a variety of national healthcare systems and their interface with the goals of health equity and quality of healthcare. By examining the mix of public and private sector funding of healthcare services as well as the mix of public and private sector delivery of healthcare services in various national contexts, authors address the question of how various national systems are affected with respect to their ability, or the lack thereof, to achieve goals of health equity and quality of healthcare in an efficient manner. The significance of this collection of national studies involving the public/private sector mix is that it provides insights into the factors that enhance the public/private sector mix in fulfilling the goals of health equity and the quality of healthcare services as well as an understanding of the circumstances in which elements of the public/private sector mix may be harmful for the achievement of such goals. This volume examines these issues as they have arisen in the United States, Canada, Australia, France, Sweden, the Netherlands, Italy, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, the Russian Federation and Taiwan.
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Revitalizing Residential Care For Children And Youth - Cross-National Trends And Challenges

by James K. Whittaker, Jorge Carlos Fernandez Del Valle, Lisa Holmes e Sigrid James

102,01€ + 10% CARD

 This volume addresses the question of how societies with developed welfare and social service systems are assessing current needs and future directions in their residential child and youth care sectors, by providing case studies and analysis across sixteen different countries.
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Work And The Social Safety Net - Labor Activation In Europe And The United States

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 During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the United States and much of the developed world were rocked by three successive economic shocks, each one more severe than the one before. Real relief from these economic shocks, of course, can only come from a restored economy--with balanced strength across many sectors and regions. Safety-net programs can also help alleviate this suffering. They provide urgent financial help and, when properly designed, can assist, motivate, or nudge recipients to seek and accept new employment. When necessary, they can help recipients to learn new skills and engage in other socially preferred behaviors. That is, they can "activate" the unemployed and underemployed.Work and the Social Safety Net: Labor Activation in Europe and the United States describes how in the 1990s and early 2000s many European countries adopted policy reforms aimed at activating those recipients apparently able to work. These policy reforms were put to the test during the Great Recession and its aftermath. This volume reviews the experiences from both Europe and the United States during this period, and includes two chapters apiece on unemployment insurance, social assistance, disability, public employment services, and political economy. Work and the Social Safety Net identifies policies for activating recipients of safety-net programs while still preserving a strong social safety net--as a guide during the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and future downturns.
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Work And The Social Safety Net - Labor Activation In Europe And The United States

55,64€ + 10% CARD

 During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the United States and much of the developed world were rocked by three successive economic shocks, each one more severe than the one before. Real relief from these economic shocks, of course, can only come from a restored economy--with balanced strength across many sectors and regions. Safety-net programs can also help alleviate this suffering. They provide urgent financial help and, when properly designed, can assist, motivate, or nudge recipients to seek and accept new employment. When necessary, they can help recipients to learn new skills and engage in other socially preferred behaviors. That is, they can "activate" the unemployed and underemployed.Work and the Social Safety Net: Labor Activation in Europe and the United States describes how in the 1990s and early 2000s many European countries adopted policy reforms aimed at activating those recipients apparently able to work. These policy reforms were put to the test during the Great Recession and its aftermath. This volume reviews the experiences from both Europe and the United States during this period, and includes two chapters apiece on unemployment insurance, social assistance, disability, public employment services, and political economy. Work and the Social Safety Net identifies policies for activating recipients of safety-net programs while still preserving a strong social safety net--as a guide during the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and future downturns.
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Revitalizing Residential Care For Children And Youth - Cross-National Trends And Challenges

by James K. (, The School Of Social Work At University Of Washington) Whittaker, Jorge Carlos (, University Of Oviedo) Fernandez Del Valle, Lisa (, University Of Sussex) Holmes e Sigrid (, University Of Kassel) James

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 This volume addresses the question of how societies with developed welfare and social service systems are assessing current needs and future directions in their residential child and youth care sectors, by providing case studies and analysis across sixteen different countries.
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Youth Labor In Transition - Inequalities, Mobility, And Policies In Europe

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 "Youth transitions to employment in Europe are increasingly protracted, precarious and differentiated by gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Examining employment transitions affected by the family and migration the authors argue for an integrated analysis of the sphere of economic production and social reproduction if policy intervention is to be effective"--
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Europe'S Income, Wealth, Consumption, And Inequality

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 Europe's Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality offers a novel approach to the analysis of social and economic trends, and the resulting book identifies major policy challenges applicable in the EU and beyond. Georg Fischer, Robert Strauss, and their contributors focus on explaining how policy makers and the media focus on national trends to measure progress among the nations in Europe.
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United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, And Inequality

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 United States Trends in Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Well-Being analyzes economic trends, examines income inequality, and discusses what can be done to increase economic mobility today.
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Decent Incomes For All - Improving Policies In Europe

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 Decent Incomes for All sheds new light on recent poverty trends in the European Union and the corresponding responses by European welfare states. The authors analyze the effect of social and fiscal policies before, during, and after the recent economic crisis, and study the impact of alternative policy packages on poverty and inequality.
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&Quote;Population Problem&Quote; In Pacific Asia

by Stuart Gietel-Basten

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 China's one-child policy, as well as policies to increase fertility in east Asia, are well-known population issues. The "Population Problem" in Pacific Asia explores why fertility is so low, why China's fertility is likely to stay low, and what governments might be able to do to both improve the population situation in their countries and simultaneously better people's lives.
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Social Exclusion In Cross-National Perspective - Actors, Actions, And Impacts From Above And Below

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 Global processes have an increasing influence on local contexts and the nature and distribution of opportunities among populations across the globe. While capital and population mobility, advances in information and communications technology, and economic liberalization have fostered economic development, industrialization, and wealth for some, they have also engendered growing inequalities in income, prosperity, well-being, and access. Those left behind by these global transformations often experience not only material deprivation, but broader dislocation from the contexts, institutions, and capabilities that provide access to social and economic opportunity. The concept of "social exclusion" has been widely adopted to describe the conditions of economic, social, political, and/or cultural marginalization experienced by particular groups of people due to extreme poverty, discrimination, dislocation, and disenfranchisement. This book explores the dynamics of social exclusion within the context of globalization across four countries--China, India, South Korea, and the United States. In particular, it examines how social exclusion is defined, manifested, and responded to with regard to diverse social arenas and processes, varying mechanisms and scales, and a range of impacted populations. Based on collaborative research activities and in-depth deliberation among leading scholars from major academic institutions in each of the four aforementioned countries, the volume provides a rich account of the interplay between globalization and social exclusion, while highlighting the ways in which responses may be more or less effective in different contexts. Its insights will be of particular interest to academics, researchers, and students across diverse social science disciplines.
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Social Exclusion In Cross-National Perspective - Actors, Actions, And Impacts From Above And Below

46,36€ + 10% CARD

 Global processes have an increasing influence on local contexts and the nature and distribution of opportunities among populations across the globe. While capital and population mobility, advances in information and communications technology, and economic liberalization have fostered economic development, industrialization, and wealth for some, they have also engendered growing inequalities in income, prosperity, well-being, and access. Those left behind by these global transformations often experience not only material deprivation, but broader dislocation from the contexts, institutions, and capabilities that provide access to social and economic opportunity. The concept of "social exclusion" has been widely adopted to describe the conditions of economic, social, political, and/or cultural marginalization experienced by particular groups of people due to extreme poverty, discrimination, dislocation, and disenfranchisement. This book explores the dynamics of social exclusion within the context of globalization across four countries--China, India, South Korea, and the United States. In particular, it examines how social exclusion is defined, manifested, and responded to with regard to diverse social arenas and processes, varying mechanisms and scales, and a range of impacted populations. Based on collaborative research activities and in-depth deliberation among leading scholars from major academic institutions in each of the four aforementioned countries, the volume provides a rich account of the interplay between globalization and social exclusion, while highlighting the ways in which responses may be more or less effective in different contexts. Its insights will be of particular interest to academics, researchers, and students across diverse social science disciplines.
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&Quote;Population Problem&Quote; In Pacific Asia

by Stuart Gietel-Basten

41,06€ + 10% CARD

 China's one-child policy, as well as policies to increase fertility in east Asia, are well-known population issues. The "Population Problem" in Pacific Asia explores why fertility is so low, why China's fertility is likely to stay low, and what governments might be able to do to both improve the population situation in their countries and simultaneously better people's lives.
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Youth Labor In Transition - Inequalities, Mobility, And Policies In Europe

49,01€ + 10% CARD

 "Youth transitions to employment in Europe are increasingly protracted, precarious and differentiated by gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Examining employment transitions affected by the family and migration the authors argue for an integrated analysis of the sphere of economic production and social reproduction if policy intervention is to be effective"--
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Caring For A Living - Migrant Women, Aging Citizens, And Italian Families

by Francesca Degiuli

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 The world is aging at a great speed. While this is a remarkable achievement, aging also brings new challenges, among them a growing need for long-term care. Caring for a Living specifically investigates Italy's employment of home eldercare assistance, an arrangement whereby long term care services are bought in the market in the form of private and individualized assistance - predominantly female immigrants.
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Caring For A Living - Migrant Women, Aging Citizens, And Italian Families

by Francesca Degiuli

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 The world is aging at a great speed. While this is a remarkable achievement, aging also brings new challenges, among them a growing need for long-term care. Caring for a Living specifically investigates Italy's employment of home eldercare assistance, an arrangement whereby long term care services are bought in the market in the form of private and individualized assistance - predominantly female immigrants.
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Welfare, Work, And Poverty - Social Assistance In China

by Qin Gao

51,66€ + 10% CARD

 Welfare, Work, and Poverty provides the first systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts and effectiveness of China's primary social assistance program - Minimum Livelihood Guarantee, or Dibao - the world's largest welfare program. The text offers new empirical evidence and draws policy lessons that are timely and useful for both China and beyond. It is essential reading for those interested in learning about and understanding contemporaryChina.
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Improving Public Services - International Experiences In Using Evaluation Tools To Measure Program Performance

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 This volume spotlights recent advances in the worldwide use of quantitative performance measures in the public sector, especially approaches that incorporate program evaluation techniques. Chapters include single-country case studies, multi-country comparisons, and thoughtful essays on the challenges of making performance measurement and management work in diverse settings.
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