Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy International Lessons and Policy Implications.

Providing original observations, this seminal text analyses the emergence of social investment policies in both Europe and East Asia. Experts explore the roads and barriers towards effective social investment policies, derive practical social policy implications and highlight important lessons for f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jun Choi, Young
Otros Autores: Fleckenstein, Timo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2021.
Colección:Research in comparative & global social policy.
Temas:
Public welfare.
Public welfare administration.
Human services.
Social service > Societies, etc.
Aide sociale.
Aide sociale > Administration.
Services sociaux.
welfare services.
social services.
Human services
Public welfare
Public welfare administration
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front cover
  • Halftitle Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface from the series editors
  • 1. Introduction: social investments and welfare reform in Europe and East Asia
  • 2. Work-family policy expansion and the idea of social investment: the cases of Germany, England, South Korea and Japan
  • 3. Private education in South Korea: lessons for the West from past mistakes?
  • 4. How do family background and shadow education affect academic performance and labour market outcomes in South Korea? Reasons for redistributive social investment
  • 5. Employability, higher education and the knowledge economy
  • 6. Does social investment make the labour market 'flow'? Family policies and institutional complementarities in Italy, Spain, Japan and South Korea
  • 7. The social investment approach and gender division of housework across East Asia and Europe
  • 8. Employment outcomes of social investment in latecomer countries
  • 9. Estimation of the human capital depreciation rate: an international comparison and policy implications in South Korea
  • 10. Changing patterns of grandparenting and their implications for active ageing in England and South Korea
  • 11. The governance of social investment policies in comparative perspective: long-term care in England and South Korea
  • 12. Towards greater social investments and equality in Europe and East Asia: policies and politics
  • Index
  • Back cover

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