Children and social security
Bibliographic Information
Children and social security
edited by Jonathan Bradshaw
(International studies on social security, v. 8)
Ashgate, c2003
Available at / 28 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
There is growing anxiety about the consequences of social and economic change for children in industrial countries. It is in this context that the Federation for International Studies in Social Security chose Children and Social Security as the theme of its conference held in June 2001. Leading academics came together to discuss issues such as international comparative studies of child poverty, financial benefit packages for children, aspects of social security provision for families with children. This volume is international in focus bringing together research from the US, Europe, South Africa, New Zealand it should be useful to researchers of social policy, economics, sociology and politics, as well as policy-makers and representatives of charities and international bodies.
Table of Contents
- Introduction and overview, Jonathan Bradshaw
- After welfare reform and an economic boom - why is child poverty still so much higher in the US than in Europe?, Sheldon Danziger
- The poverty and social exclusion survey of Britain - implications for the assessment of social security provision for children in Europe, Sue Middleton and Laura Adelman
- Economic well-being of children in the deep Swedish recession of the 1990s, Bjorn Gustafsson, Mats Johansson and Edward Palmer
- Child poverty a la carte? - the effects of measurement period for income on poverty estimates, Bea Cantillon, Rudi Van Dam, Bart Van Hoorebeeck and Karel Van Den Bosch
- Cash benefits for children in four Anglo-American countries, Michael Mendelson
- understanding the generosity of government financial support to families with children, James Banks and Mike Brewer
- Re-orientating support for children in New Zealand, Robert Stephens
- Child expenditure and public pensions - policy issues, Martin Werding
- Formalizing the informal - family obligations in modern Asia, Roy Carr-Hilland Bob Lavers
- Child support reforms in the United Kingdom and the United States, Anne Benson
- Extending cash social assistance to children and their caregivers - a South African case study, Jan Vorster and Nina Middleboe
- Is it possible to satisfy people who encounter the system of social services?, Steen Bengtsson and Nina Middleboe
- Costs and benefits of child care services in Switzerland - empirical results for Zurich, Karin Muller Kucera and Tobias Bauer.
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