Der vorliegende Band enthält die auf der Jahrestagung 1997 des Ausschusses für Sozialpolitik gehaltenen Referate. Hans Jürgen Rösner behandelt Struktur- und Organisationsprinzipien sozialer Sicherung. Als Funktionen, die ein neues Paradigma zu erfüllen haben, werden Integration,...

The welfare state has been developed first and in its largest extent in North-Western Europe, in Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden. It is also in these countries where the crisis and financial problems of the welfare state are felt first. The need for restructuring the welfare...

Institutional and Financial Incentives for Social Insurance provides both an empirical and a theoretical account of the main difficulties presently threatening social insurance systems in most industrialized countries. It analyzes the remedies that have been discussed and sometimes introduced...