The Scandinavian Model

The Scandinavian Model
Author: Robert Erikson
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1987
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780873323482

Part I of this book is devoted to the development of Scandanavian societies from agrarian societies to modern industrial economies and welfare states. Three of the chapters in Part II analyse particular welfare problems, those of inequality, poverty, and redistribution; the final essay deals with women's position in the welfare state. The papers included in Part III present theory and methods of welfare research.

Social Science and Government

Social Science and Government
Author: A. B. Cherns
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136444610

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1972 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

Coping with Homelessness

Coping with Homelessness
Author: Dragana Avramov
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2018-12-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429873018

First published in 1999. The phenomenon of homelessness is not new, but it has only recently been perceived as a social problem in European Member States. Even in the early 1990s little was known about the paths in and out of homelessness. This volume presents the papers arising from EUROHOME: Emergency and Transitory Housing for Homeless people: Needs and Best Practices. This project enabled a review of the state of knowledge in the field, an analysis of recent trends and a discussion of the prospects for improvement in the prevention of homelessness and the public response to housing in Europe. EUROHOME, and this collection, thus bring together experts in the study of: *

Bringing the Jobless into Work?

Bringing the Jobless into Work?
Author: Werner Eichhorst
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2008-09-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3540774351

This volume provides an up-to-date overview of activation strategies in unemployment benefit systems and social assistance in selected European countries and the United States. A particular focus lies on the development of activation schemes, governance and implementation as well as on the outcomes of activation in terms of labor market and social integration. The volume is the first to address these issues both from a socio-economic and a legal perspective.

Hearings

Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1458
Release: 1972
Genre:
ISBN:

Welfare Trends in the Scandinavian Countries

Welfare Trends in the Scandinavian Countries
Author: Robert Erikson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2019-07-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1315488280

Discusses important aspects of the development of the welfare state in the Scandinavian countries and Iceland since the mid-1970s. It focuses on societal changes during a period of modest economic growth. Topics include labour market benefits, education and social mobility, class and inequality, income distribution and trajectories and health.

Report

Report
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1972
Genre: Labor
ISBN: