A generation of change, a lifetime of difference : social policy in Britain since 1979 /

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This original book provides an overview of changes in social and fiscal policy since the 1970s, using an original and unique lifetime simulation approach to analyse how changes in these policies would affect people of low median and high income living in 1979, 1997 and 2008 if they lived their whole...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Evans, Martin, 1957-
Other Authors: Williams, Lewis (Associate Research Fellow)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol ; Portland, OR : Policy Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Since 1979
Social planning > Great Britain.
Social surveys > Great Britain.
Planification sociale > Grande-Bretagne.
Enquêtes sociales > Grande-Bretagne.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Policy.
Social conditions
Social planning
Social policy
Social surveys
Great Britain > Social policy > 1979-
Great Britain > Social policy.
Great Britain > Social conditions.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique sociale > 1979-
Grande-Bretagne > Politique sociale.
Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales.
Great Britain
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A generation of change, a lifetime of difference?; Contents; List of figures, tables and boxes; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The changing British welfare state; 3. Changing lives and a changing economy; 4. Childhood; 5. Working age: taxation; 6. Working age: safety nets and housing; 7. Working age risks: social insurance; 8. Working age risks: disability, caring and lone parenthood; 9. Old age and retirement; 10. Taxes, benefits and national profiles of inequality and poverty; 11. LOIS and model lifetimes; 12. The Meades; 13. The Moores; 14. The Lowes.

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