Welfare Reform: A Comparative Assessment of the French and U. S. Experiences

ISBN-13: 9781138540422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 250 str.

Rosemary A. Stevens; Antoine Parent

Opis

Since the late 1980s welfare policies in France and the United States have increasingly been shaped by a strong emphasis on citizens' obligations to work and be independent, and a weakening of entitlements to income maintenance

Spis treści

1: Poverty and Work in the United States and France; 1: Social Policy for the Working Poor: U.S. Reform in a Cross-National Perspective *; 2: Applying the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Concept of the “Working Poor” to France *; 2: Development and Structure of Welfare Policies Welfare Reform; 3: Welfare Policy in the United States: The Road from Income Maintenance to Workfare; 4: Income Support Policy in France; 5: Workfare and Insertion : How the U.S. and French Models of Social Assistance Have Been Transformed; 3: The Evaluations of U.S. Welfare Reforms and Their Implications; 6: Assessing Welfare Reform in the United States *; 7: Work, Welfare, and Economic Well-Being After Welfare Reform: Do State Policies Make a Difference?; 8: Issues in the Design and Evaluation of U.S. Welfare Reforms; 4: The Relationship between Economic Growth and Poverty; 9: Welfare Reform, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the U.S.; 10: Growth and Poverty in France; 5: Work-Oriented Reforms: How Well Do They Work?; 11: Leaving Welfare without Working: How Do Mothers Do It? And What Are the Implications?; 12: The Static vs. Dynamic Inactivity Trap on the Labor Market: Revisiting the “Making Work Pay” Issue

O autorze

Rosemary A. Stevens