Welfare to Work in Practice : Social Security and Participation in Economic and Social Life.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Welfare to Work in Practice: Introduction and Overview -- 2 Protection to Activation: The Apotheosis of Work -- 3 Work as Welfare? Lone Mothers, Social Security and Employment -- 4 Bridging the Welfare to Work Divide: Economic and Social Participation among Income Support Recipients in Australia -- 5 The Role of Workfare in the Scandinavian Model of Social Security: Soft Work Incentives, Skill Upgrading or Quality of Life Improvement for the Disadvantaged? -- 6 In-work Benefits: Curing Unemployment among the Low-skilled in Germany -- 7 Financial Incentives and Mothers' Employment: A Comparative Perspective -- 8 Reforming the Passive Welfare State: Belgium's New Income Arrangements to Make Work Pay in International Perspective -- 9 Dilemmas in Disability Activation and How Scandinavians Try to Live with Them -- 10 Personalised Employment Services for Disability Benefits Recipients: Are Comparisons Useful? -- 11 Who Becomes a Disability Benefit Recipient in Sweden? -- 12 Returning the Long-term Sick-listed to Work: The Effects of Educational Measures and Employer Separations in Denmark -- 13 Disability Benefits and Unemployment Patterns in Estonia -- Index.

Welfare to Work in Practice brings together some of the leading international social security experts to discuss the rationale for welfare to work policies, their limitations and problems encountered in practice. Contributors include Jane Millar, Neil Gilbert, Martin Werding, Jonathan Bradshaw and Einar Overbye, who address topics ranging from the linkages between social security and the labour market to how the welfare to work agenda is responding to the needs of special groups such as lone parents, the long-term unemployed and those with a disability.

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