Alternatives for Welfare Policy: Coping with Internationalisation and Demographic Change

ISBN-13: 9780521814065 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 396 str.

Per Molander; Torben M. Andersen

Opis

This comprehensive survey of key welfare policy issues, in an age of globalization and ageing populations, draws on comparative OECD data and case studies from Scandinavia. Torben Andersen and Per Molander provide a forceful analysis of the main challenges to the traditional public sector welfare state and explore the principal policy options open to governments in advanced economies. They assess the advantages and disadvantages of alternative welfare regimes with less reliance on public sector involvement.

Spis treści

List of contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction Torben M. Andersen and Per Molander; 2. International integration and the welfare state Torben M. Andersen; 3. The changing age structure and the public sector Thomas Lindh; 4. Emigration from the Scandinavian welfare states Peder J. Pedersen, Marianne Røed and Lena Schröder; 5. Productivity and costs in public production of services Jørn Rattsø; 6. Use of fees in the provision of public services in OECD countries Carl Emmerson and Howard Reed; 7. Privatisation of social insurance with reference to Sweden Lars Söderström and Klas Rikner; 8. Occupational welfare Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg; 9. Pathways to retirement and retirement incentives in Sweden Mårten Palme and Ingemar Svensson; 10. Social insurance and redistribution Pierre Pestieau; 11. Assessing the effect of introducing welfare accounts in Sweden Stefan Fölster, Robert Gidehag, Mike Orszag and Dennis J. Snower; 12. Taxation in a global economy Bernd Huber and Erik Norrman; 13. Taxation and education investment in the tertiary sector Fredrik Andersson and Kai A. Konrad; 14. Debt strategies for Sweden and Europe Martin Flodén; 15. Policy options for reforming the welfare state Torben M. Andersen and Per Molander; Index.