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Compulsory income management in Australia and New Zealand : more harm than good?
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ISBN: 1447361490 1447361512 1447361520 1447361504 Year: 2022 Publisher: Bristol : Policy Press,

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More than a decade on from their conception, this book reflects on the consequences of income management policies in Australia and New Zealand. Drawing on a three-year study, it explores the lived experience of those for whom core welfare benefits and services are dependent on government conceptions of 'responsible' behaviour. It analyses whether officially claimed positive intentions and benefits of the schemes are outweighed by negative impacts that deepen the poverty and stigma of marginalised and disadvantaged groups. This novel study considers the future of this form of welfare conditionality and addresses wider questions of fairness and social justice.


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Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen und solidarisches Bürgergeld : mehr als sozialutopische Konzepte
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ISBN: 9783937816470 Year: 2008 Publisher: [Hamburg] : Hamburg University Press,


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Mutations technologiques, economie distributive et revenu minimum : des fondements théoriques à la politique économique du revenu minimum d'insertion
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ISBN: 2738436781 Year: 1995 Volume: *1 Publisher: Paris l'Harmattan


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Managing poverty : the limits of social assistance.
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ISBN: 0415084547 0415084555 Year: 1993 Publisher: London Routledge


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Argentina : income support policies toward the bicentennial.
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ISBN: 0821380516 9786612293542 1282293540 0821380524 Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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Argentina approaches its bicentennial as an independent republic and has a window of opportunity in social protection policy. Following the most serious economic crisis in its history during 2001-02, the country mobilized an effort to provide income support to the population in need. Now, as growth has returned and social indicators have recovered to pre-crisis levels, there is an opening to move from emergency income support programs to a more comprehensive, long-term, and sustainable strategy for social protection. The emergency response was effective, as it helped the country to overcome the worst of the crisis. The centerpiece of the strategy, plan Jefes y Jefas, provided benefits to nearly two million households during a period when poverty affected more than half the population and unemployment reached record levels. The number of beneficiaries slowly declined beginning in 2003, and was at nearly one-third of its maximum value by early 2008. This reduction was achieved by the reentry of beneficiaries into the formal labor market, the loss of eligibility, and the shift of beneficiaries to familias and seguro de capacitacion y empleo (Seguro), the successor programs to Jefes. Now that the crisis has passed, the policy debate has shifted toward the future of social protection over the longer term. The improvement in overall economic conditions since 2003 has resulted in a decline in unemployment, poverty, and inequality, and a recovery of formal employment and real salaries to pre-crisis levels. These positive trends have generated opportunities to consider longer-term and structural issues, including a debate over the future of whether this new type of noncontributory social policies, based on income transfers to households and individuals, should continue.--Publisher's description.


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Le désengagement de l'État providence
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ISBN: 2760623939 9791036503979 9782760623934 276062935X Year: 2003 Volume: 34,2 Publisher: Presses de l’Université de Montréal

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Plusieurs raisons militent en faveur d'une étude du processus de désengagement de l'État dans le domaine de la protection sociale. Certains voudront mieux connaître les fondements et l'organisation du filet de sécurité sociale au Canada. D'autres voudront savoir aussi en quoi a consisté sa restructuration profonde à partir de 1975. D'autres, enfin, s'intéresseront au processus de désengagement en tant que tel ou encore aux stratégies politiques que le gouvernement fédéral a mises en place pendant une vingtaine d'années pour restructurer la sécurité du revenu au moindre coût politique possible. Cet ouvrage poursuit trois grands objectifs. D'abord, il vise à analyser le processus et les formes de désengagement du gouvernement canadien dans le domaine de la sécurité du revenu entre 1975 et 1995. Pour ce faire, il examine les changements qui se sont produits dans quatre grands programmes fédéraux : pensions de vieillesse, assurance-chômage, Régime d'assistance publique du Canada et prestations financières pour enfants. Ensuite, il compare les approches et stratégies que le gouvernement fédéral a poursuivies au cours de cette période pour se désengager de certaines obligations financières envers les citoyens. Enfin, il établit des distinctions importantes entre les facteurs associés à l'expansion de l'État providence canadien (1950 à 1974) et ceux associés au désengagement (depuis 1975).

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