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![The Political Economy of Welfare Reform in the United States]()
The Political Economy of Welfare Reform in the United States
Mary Reintsma
The welfare system in the United States underwent profound changes as a result of the groundbreaking welfare legislation passed in 1996 entitled The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). The Politica...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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![The WTO and Poverty and Inequality]()
The WTO and Poverty and Inequality
Edited by L. A. Winters
This comprehensive two-volume collection presents key papers on the relationship between international trade and trade policy on the one hand, and poverty and inequality on the other. These relationships highlight the connections between... -
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![Globalization, Economic Development and Inequality]()
Globalization, Economic Development and Inequality
Edited by Erik S. Reinert
The expert contributors gathered here approach underdevelopment and inequality from different evolutionary perspectives. It is argued that the Schumpeterian processes of ‘creative destruction’ may take the form of wealth creation in one ...eBook:Find out more£39.16
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Work, Leisure and the Environment
Tim Robinson
This significant book explains how work–life balance is being destroyed because individuals fail to link their work effort with its adverse environmental effects and the personal costs they impose. -
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The Distributional Effects of Indirect Taxes
John Creedy, Cath Sleeman
This book develops a number of analytical models and presents empirical analyses of the equity and efficiency effects of existing indirect taxes from New Zealand. Potential tax reforms including environmental taxes are also examined and ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Redesigning the Welfare State
Hans-Werner Sinn, Christian Holzner, Wolfgang Meister, Wolfgang Ochel, Martin Werding
Redesigning the Welfare State argues that the current high level of unemployment in Germany not only creates a major challenge for the German welfare state, but is to a good extent caused by the way the country''s welfare system is desig... -
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International Perspectives on Household Wealth
Edited by Edward N. Wolff
The contributors to this comprehensive book compile and analyse the latest data available on household wealth using, as case studies, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Finland during the 1990s and into the twenty-fir...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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![The Young, the Old and the State]()
The Young, the Old and the State
Edited by Anneli Anttonen, John Baldock, Jorma Sipilä
This is a comparative account of social care services for children and older people in five key industrial nations (Finland, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States). The authors break new ground by moving beyond institu...eBook:Find out more£27.96
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![The Welfare Economics of Public Policy]()
The Welfare Economics of Public Policy
Richard E, Just, Darrell L. Hueth, Andrew Schmitz
This outstanding text, a follow-up to the authors’ award-winning 1982 text, provides a thorough treatment of economic welfare theory and develops a complete theoretical and empirical framework for applied project and policy evaluation. T...eBook:Find out more£55.16
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The Economics of Nonprofit Enterprises
Edited by Richard Steinberg
The literature on nonprofit organizations can be said to have developed in three waves. The first wave asserted some plausible objectives for a nonprofit organization possessing monopoly power and examined the subsequent implications for... -
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Work, Family and Childcare
Joris Ghysels
Work, Family and Childcare studies the joint decisions made by parents regarding the time they allocate to paid employment and childcare. Extensive cross-national data is analysed from three countries that represent the diversity of Euro...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Economics of Social Security in Japan
Edited by Toshiaki Tachibanaki
This book provides a comprehensive appraisal of social security in Japan, where traditionally the burden of welfare provision has been the main responsibility of the family and employers, rather than the state. However, an ageing populat...eBook:Find out more£25.00
