Targeting Social Benefits: International Perspectives and Trends
ISBN: 9780765806253 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last decade, changing family life and increasing fiscal constraints on welfare expenditures have forced industrialized nations to reconsider how they approach social protection. Faced with fiscal and demographic changes, many countries have been struggling to develop innovative policy responses. Some involve targeting benefits in order to shrink existing program commitments, to focus welfare expenditures on those most in need, and to give social welfare systems more flexibility in redirecting available resources to meet emerging demands.
Over the last decade, changing family life and increasing fiscal constraints on welfare expenditures have forced industrialized nations to reconsider ...
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228,18 zł |
Social Security at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Topical Issues and New Approaches
ISBN: 9780765807021 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting a periodic overview of the most significant developments and trends in the field of social security has become, for the International Social Security Association, a tradition and a firm commitment. Benefiting from the vast quantity of information uniquely available to the ISSA, its triennial review takes stock of the current state of social security world wide and focuses, through expert analyses, on some of the most pressing social security issues. Social Security at the Dawn of the 21st Century, the outcome of the most recent review, is intended to significantly extend the... Presenting a periodic overview of the most significant developments and trends in the field of social security has become, for the International So... |
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222,99 zł |
Building Social Security: The Challenge of Privatization
ISBN: 9780765808783 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, in both the specialist press and the tabloids, the idea of privatization of social security has become a shimmering catch phrase. Politicians base election campaigns on promises of more or less privatization in social security. Many governments introduce private business management methods into their social security systems. Representatives of social security institutions and academics prepare theory papers on the possible outcomes of privatization. And international financial organizations describe doomsday scenarios based on the premise of failure to privatize. ... In recent years, in both the specialist press and the tabloids, the idea of privatization of social security has become a shimmering catch phrase.... |
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Reigns of Terror
ISBN: 9780773526419 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reigns of Terror is a study of states that have committed gross human rights crimes against their own citizens. Patricia Marchak seeks to discover whether these states have anything in common - whether there are preconditions that can be identified as leading to crimes against humanity so that the world community could take preventive action in similar situations elsewhere. She provides short histories of nine culturally and historically diverse societies where such crimes occurred during the 20th century, including the Ottoman Empire in Armenia, the USSR in the Eastern Ukraine, Nazi Germany,...
Reigns of Terror is a study of states that have committed gross human rights crimes against their own citizens. Patricia Marchak seeks to discover whe...
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534,26 zł |
Reigns of Terror
ISBN: 9780773526426 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reigns of Terror is a study of states that have committed gross human rights crimes against their own citizens. Patricia Marchak seeks to discover whether these states have anything in common - whether there are preconditions that can be identified as leading to crimes against humanity so that the world community could take preventive action in similar situations elsewhere. She provides short histories of nine culturally and historically diverse societies where such crimes occurred during the 20th century, including the Ottoman Empire in Armenia, the USSR in the Eastern Ukraine, Nazi Germany,...
Reigns of Terror is a study of states that have committed gross human rights crimes against their own citizens. Patricia Marchak seeks to discover whe...
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145,18 zł |
Turning Points in Social Security: From 'Cruel Hoax' to 'Sacred Entitlement'
ISBN: 9780804725798 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is a political history of the development of the US social security system over more than five decades. When initiated in 1935, social security was an experiment in social policy, and its endurance is evidence of its success. This volume, analyses key turning points in its history in order to explain this success. A major concern of the book is to explore the often contradictory interpretations of the relationship between the development of social security and the role of the state. The author's interpretation knits together insights from sociological theories to fashion an...
This work is a political history of the development of the US social security system over more than five decades. When initiated in 1935, social secur...
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321,59 zł |
Keeping the Promise of Social Security in Latin America
ISBN: 9780804751810 / Angielski / Twarda / 341 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Empirical analysis of two decades of pioneering pension and social security reform in Latin America and the Caribbean shows that much has been achieved, but that critical challenges remain. In tackling the unfinished agenda, a great deal can be learned from the reform experience of countries in the region. Keeping the Promise, produced by the chief economist's office in the Latin America and Caribbean Region at the World Bank, evaluates policy reforms in twelve countries, points to successes and shortcomings, and proposes priorities and options for future reform. The authors argue that...
Empirical analysis of two decades of pioneering pension and social security reform in Latin America and the Caribbean shows that much has been achieve...
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1153,51 zł |
Keeping the Promise of Social Security in Latin America
ISBN: 9780804752381 / Angielski / Miękka / 341 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Empirical analysis of two decades of pioneering pension and social security reform in Latin America and the Caribbean shows that much has been achieved, but that critical challenges remain. In tackling the unfinished agenda, a great deal can be learned from the reform experience of countries in the region. Keeping the Promise, produced by the chief economist's office in the Latin America and Caribbean Region at the World Bank, evaluates policy reforms in twelve countries, points to successes and shortcomings, and proposes priorities and options for future reform. The authors argue that...
Empirical analysis of two decades of pioneering pension and social security reform in Latin America and the Caribbean shows that much has been achieve...
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260,19 zł |
Prospects for Social Security Reform
ISBN: 9780812234794 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This latest installment in the Pension Research Council series brings together a wealth of information for those concerned with public policy options. . . .The book is substantive. . . . It provides data, estimates, models, and a framework to help readers think about the underlying problems in the system."--Industrial and Labor Relations Review The United States social security system is the nation's largest social insurance program. As such, it has a far-reaching impact throughout the economy, influencing not only old-age economic security but also many behaviors, including corporate...
"This latest installment in the Pension Research Council series brings together a wealth of information for those concerned with public policy options...
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466,83 zł |
Can America Afford to Grow Old?: Paying for Social Security
ISBN: 9780815700432 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the effects of rising social security costs and of measures adopted to deal with them, and discusses possible ways of coping with the shortfall of available money for the aging American population.
Examines the effects of rising social security costs and of measures adopted to deal with them, and discusses possible ways of coping with the shortfa...
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81,85 zł |
Framing the Social Security Debate: Values, Politics, and Economics
ISBN: 9780815701538 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his 1998 State of the Union address, President Clinton challenged Americans to a public debate about how to fix the long-term financial problems of Social Security.
In his 1998 State of the Union address, President Clinton challenged Americans to a public debate about how to fix the long-term financial problems of...
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The Future of Social Insurance: Incremental Action or Fundamental Reform?
ISBN: 9780815702139 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this new conference volume from the National Academy of Social Insurance, experts offer differing views on what changes will, and must, occur to ensure the continuing viability of Social Security, retirement benefits, unemployment insurance, Medicare, and health security programs. The book opens with a general overview of how economic and political forces will shape the future of social insurance. In the chapters that follow, contributors discuss and debate a full range of related topics, including future Social Security investment returns, the changing face of private retirement plans,... In this new conference volume from the National Academy of Social Insurance, experts offer differing views on what changes will, and must, occur to... |
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Private Pensions and Public Policies
ISBN: 9780815702399 / Angielski / Miękka / 407 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The private pension system, together with Social Security, has provided millions of Americans with income security in retirement. But over the past thirty years, pension coverage has stagnated, leaving behind some vulnerable groups. Defined contribution plans have exposed workers to greater investment risk, while cash balance and other hybrid plans may have adverse effects on older workers caught in the transition. Pension regulations, infamous for their complexity, can be bewildering to policy analysts and policymakers. Private Pensions and Public Policies sheds timely and much-needed... The private pension system, together with Social Security, has provided millions of Americans with income security in retirement. But over the past... |
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Agency Under Stress: The Social Security Administration in American Government
ISBN: 9780815718239 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prize-winning author Martha Derthick draws on the recent experience of the Social Security Administration to examine the quality of policymaker's guidance and the feasibility of their policies. Derthick concludes that many structural features of American government hinder good administration, that policymakers lack concern for administration, and that they often miscalculate the administrative consequences of their policy choices. To illustrate this argument, Agency Under Stress analyzes two much-publicized cases of poor performance by one of the biggest and best established of U.S....
Prize-winning author Martha Derthick draws on the recent experience of the Social Security Administration to examine the quality of policymaker's guid...
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109,15 zł |
Social Security: What Role for the Future?
ISBN: 9780815718352 / Angielski / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent reports predict that, barring any changes, the Social Security program will become insolvent--no longer able to pay promised benefits in full--around the year 2030, well within the retirement years of the baby boom generation. They also predict that the trust fund will stop being a net contributor and become instead a net claimant on the federal budget in the year 2013--much earlier than previously thought. With the world population aging, the increasing number of dependent senior citizens in all countries will become a major public policy issue that will have to be addressed...
Recent reports predict that, barring any changes, the Social Security program will become insolvent--no longer able to pay promised benefits in full--...
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109,15 zł |
Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach
ISBN: 9780815718376 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New in Paperback. While everyone agrees that Social Security is a vital and necessary government program, there have been widely divergent plans for reforming it. Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag, two of the nation's foremost economists, propose a reform plan that would rescue the program both from its projected financial problems and from those who would destroy the program in order to save it. Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2004, the Social Security debate has moved to the center of the domestic policy agenda. In this updated edition of Saving Social... New in Paperback. While everyone agrees that Social Security is a vital and necessary government program, there have been widely divergent plans fo... |
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The Evolving Pension System: Trends, Effects, and Proposals for Reform
ISBN: 9780815731177 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Labor Day 1999 marked the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the act that brought about sweeping reforms of the private-pension system. This volume examines the foundations and the future of the private-pension system.
Labor Day 1999 marked the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the act that brought about sweeping ...
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136,50 zł |
Social Security and Medicare: A Policy Primer
ISBN: 9780865692008 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social Security and Medicare are of compelling concern to virtually all Americans because they impact lives so enduringly and directly through the protection they afford and the costs they entail. It is, indeed, the extraordinary social welfare commitment these programs represent and their concomitant expense that provoke such determined support and such fiscal concern. Kingson and Berkowitz provide a thorough, balanced, and highly accessible explanation of Social Security and Medicare. They explain the dilemmas facing policymakers and describe, through historical development, how the... Social Security and Medicare are of compelling concern to virtually all Americans because they impact lives so enduringly and directly through the ... |
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382,20 zł |
Social Security and Medicare: A Policy Primer
ISBN: 9780865692015 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social Security and Medicare are of compelling concern to virtually all Americans because they impact lives so enduringly and directly through the protection they afford and the costs they entail. It is, indeed, the extraordinary social welfare commitment these programs represent and their concomitant expense that provoke such determined support and such fiscal concern. Kingson and Berkowitz provide a thorough, balanced, and highly accessible explanation of Social Security and Medicare. They explain the dilemmas facing policymakers and describe, through historical development, how the... Social Security and Medicare are of compelling concern to virtually all Americans because they impact lives so enduringly and directly through the ... |
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191,10 zł |
Social Security: A Documentary History
ISBN: 9780872895027 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Details the development of US Social Security from its antecedents and founding in 1935 to the controversies of the present day. Filled with primary source documents, this title weaves together the colorful history of Social Security in a chronological fashion that highlights the major moments and events in the program's development.
Details the development of US Social Security from its antecedents and founding in 1935 to the controversies of the present day. Filled with primary s...
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622,44 zł |