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This book illustrates why both academic research and policy thinking need to factor-in gender hierarchies and structures if they are to address some of the key challenges of contemporary societies: the widespread informality and insecurity of paid work and the crisis of care

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The Brazilian Economy since the Great Financial Crisis of 2007/2008

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This book examines the performance of the Brazilian economy since the Great Financial Crisis of 2007/2008 with focus on both the productive and financial dimensions, along with distributional and social issues. The book will bring to light the causes of the fast recovery over 2009-2010 as well...

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Intergenerational Solidarity : Strengthening Economic and Social Ties

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This volume analyzes intergenerational solidarity from diverse interdisciplinary angles within the social sciences. It provides analytical tools to advance research and documents how societies are adjusting to major changes that affect the core of the social fabric

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The Global Economic Crisis and Consequences for Development Strategy in Dubai

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This book identifies and addresses the impacts of the global financial crisis on Dubai and the region. The issues are highlighted and analyzed by a group of distinguished scholars. Specifically, discussions are focused on the following four interrelated issues: Why and how the financial crisis...

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Economic stress, human capital, and families in Asia : research and policy challenges

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The Economics of Tax and Social Security in Japan

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This book integrates the fundamentals of quantitative significance, using existing estimates of the elasticities of demand for tax, health insurance, and medical services in a static microsimulation model. It serves as a guide to the financial and social basics of health insurance and provides...

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Familial Foundations of the Welfare State : Building the National Health Insurance Systems in South Korea and Taiwan

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This book situates culture as a determining factor in the development of diverse welfare states, exploring the impact of traditional familialism on South Korean and Taiwanese programs. This approach provides an important alternative to studies that focus on formal variables- such as...

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The Takeover of Social Policy by Financialization : The Brazilian Paradox

Lavinas, Lena - 2017

This book critically addresses the model of social inclusion that prevailed in Brazil under the rule of the Workers Party from the early 2000s until 2015. It examines how the emergence of a mass consumer society proved insufficient, not only to overcome underdevelopment, but also to consolidate...

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Origins of the German Welfare State : Social Policy in Germany to 1945

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the German Empire: the Insurance Solution -- The First World War -- The Weimar Republic -- The Nazi State -- Long … German tradition to the rise of social policy in the Western world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Germany pioneered modern … social policy in the 19th century when Bismarck introduced social insurance. After the Second World War, Germany’s Social …

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