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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “christopher prinz”
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  • Social Security, Household, and Family Dynamics in Ageing Societies

    by Jean-Pierre Gonnot, Nico Keilman, Christopher Prinz ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Many industrialized countries are facing large problems with their public pension systems in the 21st century. An unfavourable age distribution, with lower population shares in working ages and increasing shares and numbers of elderly persons in the future will lead, under current pension systems, to a drop in contributions and at the same time to sharply rising amounts of benefits paid.This book ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • European Disability Pension Policies

    11 Country Trends 1970–2002

    Edited by Christopher Prinz ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2003. During the last twenty years, the longer-term sustainability of social insurance systems has become a major issue in all European countries. Analysts and governments are increasingly alarmed at the growth in the number of disability benefit recipients, and the expansion of disability benefit schemes via increasing benefits, broadening coverage and easing ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Transforming Disability Welfare Policies

    Towards Work and Equal Opportunities

    by Christopher Prinz ...
    Series series Public Policy and Social Welfare
    Bringing together contributions from institutions such as the OECD, the WHO, the World Bank and the European Disability Forum, as well as policy makers and researchers, this volume focuses on disability and work. The contributors address a wide range of issues including what it means to be disabled, what rights and responsibilities society has for people with disabilities, how disability benefits ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

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    Tax evasion is a complex phenomenon which is influenced not just by economic motives but by psychological factors as well. Economic-psychological research focuses on individual and social representations of taxation as well as decision-making. In this 2007 book, Erich Kirchler assembles research on tax compliance, with a focus on tax evasion, and integrates the findings into a model based on the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • From Welfare to Childcare

    What Happens to Young Children When Mothers Exchange Welfare for Work?

    Edited by Natasha Cabrera, Robert Hutchens, H. Elizabeth Peters ...
    Although federal and state support for childcare has increased dramatically in response to welfare work requirements, low-income families are still facing difficulties balancing work and family obligations. There is wide variation across states in the strictness of welfare work requirements and in the generosity of childcare support. In addition, the level of co-payments required and the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Aging Social Policies

    An International Perspective

    by Robbyn R. Wacker, Karen A. Roberto ...
    Our population is aging. What will we do about it?Due to population explosion and a global increase in average life expectancies, an unprecedentedly high percentage of the world′s population is aging. By the middle of this century there will be up to 2 billion individuals over the age of 65, a demographic shift never before experienced in our human history. In addition, declining birth rates in ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Handbook On Poverty And Inequality

    by Khandker Shahidur; Haughton Jonathan ...
    For anyone wanting to learn, in practical terms, how to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty, the Handbook is the place to start. Designed initially to support training courses on poverty analysis, it consists of explanatory text with numerous examples, interspersed with multiple-choice questions (to ensure active learning) and combined with extensive practical exercises using ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Aging in Canada

    by Neena L. Chappell, Marcus J. Hollander ...
    Canada, like other countries, is aging. The media has reported on a "grey tsunami," a demographic change reflecting longer life expectancy and the retirement of the so-called baby boomer generation. The numbers and percentages of older adults within our population continue to increase. In 2010, 15.3 percent of Canada's population was over 65; in 2030, it will be 24.1 percent. Many commentators ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • International Differences in Well-Being

    by Ed Diener, Daniel Kahneman, John Helliwell ...
    Series series Oxford Positive Psychology Series
    This book brings together the best of current global research on the measurement and understanding of international differences in well-being ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Public School Advantage

    Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools

    by Christopher A. Lubienski, Sarah Theule Lubienski ...
    Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Modern Monetary Theory and the Recovery

    by Brian Romanchuk ...
    This book discusses the causes of slow growth in the developed world after the early 1990s from a Modern Monetary Theory perspective. Policy proposals from MMT proponents that aim to rejuvenate the labour market without causing a resurgence of inflation will be examined.Modern Monetary Theory is an outgrowth of the heterodox post-Keynesian school of economics, and the overall scope of the theory ... Read more

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  • Poverty and Discrimination

    by Kevin Lang ...
    Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty and discrimination to determine what we actually know and how we know it.Using ... Read more

    $79.19 USD