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Out of the public eye: The International Labour Organisation in the media
Nullmeier, Frank - 2014
trifft auch auf die globale Sozialpolitik zu. Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie globale … Sozialpolitik - und insbesondere die Internationale Arbeitsorganisation (ILO) als deren zentraler Akteur - in den Medien dargestellt … werden. Wie hoch ist die mediale Aufmerksamkeit für das Thema globale Sozialpolitik? Zu welchen Anlässen wird die Presse auf …
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Openness, financial markets, and policies: Cross-country and dynamic patterns
Bertola, Giuseppe; Lo Prete, Anna - 2008
We document significant and robust empirical relationships in cross-country panel data between government size or social expenditure on the one hand, and trade and financial development indicators on the other. Across countries, deeper economic integration is associated with more intense...
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Social Policies for a Recovery
Immervoll, Herwig; Llena-Nozal, Ana - 2011
The fallout from the global economic downturn of 2008-09 is a continuing source of stress on families and a constraint on government policies. How can social policies contribute to a quick and equitable recovery from the crisis and how can they best respond to the difficulties that households...
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Does European-style welfare generosity discourage single mother employmnet?
Destro, Lane; Brady, David - 2010
Although many have expressed concern over whether generous welfare policies discourage the employment of single mothers, scholars have rarely exploited cross-national variability in the generosity of social policies to assess this question. This is the case even though much previous scholarship...
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Child poverty and changes in child poverty in rich countries since 1990
Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - 2005
This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover the relative role of income transfers from the state in...
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Linkages between pro-poor growth, social programmes and labour market: The recent Brazilian experience
Kakwani, Nanak; Neri, Marcelo; Son, Hyun H. - 2009
This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its globalization process, focusing on the role played by the labour market and social programmes. Methodologically, the paper makes two contributions to the literature. One is the proposal of...
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The development of long-term care in post-socialist member states of the EU
Golinowska, Stanislawa; Sowa, Agnieszka - 2013
Long-term care (LTC) in the new EU member states, which used to belong to the former socialist countries, is not yet a legally separated sector of social security. However, the ageing dynamics are more intensive in these states than in the old EU member states. This paper analyses the process of...
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Sozialpolitik bei Budgetengpässen und Fiskalpakt
Aiginger, Karl - 2012
Europe is in the throes of budgetary consolidation, tightening its fiscal rules. It could not prevent the recession of 2012 and the inexorable growth of debt, especially in Southern Europe, while unemployment spreads and the social gap widens. Social policy is mostly a national matter, but is...
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Grauzonen der Sorge: Informalisierung von Pflegearbeit im Kontext des Pflegenotstands
Haubner, Tine - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 26 (2019) 4, pp. 425-444
Im Kontext steigender Versorgungsbedarfe, eines grassierenden Fachkräftemangels und einer Krise sozialer Reproduktion kommt es seit den 1990er Jahren zu einem sozial- und pflegepolitischen Ausbau niedrigschwelliger und informeller Pflegearbeit in den Grauzonen des Pflegemarktes in Deutschland....
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Towards a European Union of Social Investment Welfare States
Hemerijck, Anton - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 5, pp. 233-239
Having had little time to absorb the economic and social shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Union is confronted with staggering increases in the cost of living. While household burdens vary significantly across and within countries, most European countries are struggling to cushion the...
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