Alternatives for welfare policy : coping with internationalism and demographic change /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 383 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Public welfare -- Scandinavia. Public welfare -- OECD countries. Public welfare. OECD countries. Scandinavia. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11170702

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Other authors / contributors:	Andersen, Torben M., 1956- Molander, Per.
ISBN:	0511064845 9780511064845 0511120540 9780511120541 6610161275 9780521814065 0521814065 9786610161270 0521814065 9780511493508 0511493509 9780521047197
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Demographic change and increasingly international markets are putting severe pressure on developed welfare states in the OECD countries. The contributors to this book assess the magnitude of these challenges and discuss in depth, and in concrete terms, what policy options are open to meet them. Looking at public service production, social insurance, tax policy and debt policy, they examine the main costs and benefits associated with an extensive welfare state and ask whether the same objectives can be reached with a welfare regime that is less costly. They also discuss whether the organization of the welfare state is capable of meeting future challenges facing a changing society. This rigorous analysis draws on empirical material from OECD countries with a focus on the Scandinavian countries.
Other form:	Print version: Alternatives for welfare policy. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2003
Standard no.:	9780511064845

Table of Contents:

International integration and the welfare state / Torben M. Andersen
The changing age structure and the public sector / Thomas Lindh
Emigration from the Scandinavian welfare states / Peder J. Pedersen, Marianne Røed and Lena Schröder
Productivity and costs in public production of services / Jørn Rattsø
Use of fees in the provision of public services in OECD countries / Carl Emmerson and Howard Reed
Privitisation of social insurance with reference to Sweden / Lars Söderström and Klas Rikner
Occupational welfare / Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg
Pathways to retirement and retirement incentives in Sweden / Mårten Palme and Ingemar Svensson
Social insurance and redistribution / Pierre Pestieau
Assessing the effect of introducing welfare accounts in Sweden / Stefan Fölster [and others]
Taxation in a global economy / Bernd Huber and Erik Norrman
Taxation and education investment in the tertiary sector / Fredrik Andersson and Kai A. Konrad
Debt strategies for Sweden and Europe / Martin Flodén
Policy options for reforming the welfare state / Torben M. Andersen and Per Molander.

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