The economics of social protection
ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Inequality -- ch. 3. Social justice -- ch. 4. Pensions : basic model -- ch. 5. Pensions : extended model -- ch. 6. Liquidity constraints -- ch. 7. Income security -- ch. 8. Benefits in kind
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham
Edward Elgar
c2008
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Inequality -- ch. 3. Social justice -- ch. 4. Pensions : basic model -- ch. 5. Pensions : extended model -- ch. 6. Liquidity constraints -- ch. 7. Income security -- ch. 8. Benefits in kind This book focuses on arrangements for redistributing consumption opportunities over the life cycle and for providing compensation for income losses or large expenditures due to reasons such as illness and unemployment. After extensive coverage of the nature of inequalities in income and wealth in a market economy, and various notions of social justice, the author discusses public and private transfers in cash or in kind related to old age, childhood, illness and the like. Importantly, the book takes into account both equity and efficiency aspects |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 180 p ill |
| ISBN: | 184720239X 9781847202390 9781848442955 |