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Disability benefits, welfare reform and employment policy /
This book aims to tackle the issues that are central to understanding and addressing one of the most important employment policy problems facing governments in the UK and beyond: the high number of people of working age claiming 'disability' or 'incapacity' benefits. Gathering ev...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Colección: | Work and welfare in Europe.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Fit for work? : representations and explanations of the disability benefits : crisis in the UK and beyond / Colin Lindsay and Donald Houston
- Disability benefits in the UK : an issue health or jobs? / Christina Beatty and Steve Fothergill
- A history of work-disability / John Macnicol
- Are incapacity benefit claimants beyond employment? : exploring issues of employability / Anne Green and Ian Shuttleworth
- Redefining "fit for work" : welfare reform and the introduction of employment support allowance / Helen Barnes and Paul Sissons
- A health problem? health and employability in the UK labour market / Jon Warren, Kayleigh Garthwaite and Clare Bambra
- The interaction of health, labour market conditions and long-term sickness benefit claims in a post-industrial city : a Glasgow case study / David Webster, Judith Brown, Ewan B. Macdonald and Ivan Turok
- The impact of the UK's disability benefit reforms / Christina Beatty, Steve Fothergill and Donald Houston
- Germany : attempting to activate the long-term unemployed with reduced working capacity / Martin Brussig and Matthias Knuth
- Incapacity benefits : change and continuity in the Swedish welfare state / Rickard Ulmestig
- From dutch disease to Dutch fitness? : two decades of disability crisis in the Netherlands / Rik van Berkel
- New Zealand's reform of sickness benefit and invalid's benefit / Neil Lunt and Daniel Horsfall
- Fit for purpose? : lessons for policies to address the disability benefits / Donald Houston and Colin Lindsay.