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Solidarity in Welfare States During and After the Global Pandemic: A Theoretical Investigation

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Welfare state policies are based on cultural ideals of solidarity; however, the extent of solidarity provided by welfare state institutions has varied substantially, both historically and across nations and policy fields. This article aims to answer the following questions: How did solidarity as an institutional norm in welfare states change ...
Birgit Pfau‐Effinger, Patricia Frericks   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Older health and social care workers' labour market patterns: a 16-year longitudinal study from ages 61-65 to 76-80. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res
Martikainen A, Alexanderson K, Svedberg P, Farrants K.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Politics of Social Care in Japan: How Central–Local Interactions Shaped Child Allowances and Elderly Medical Care

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why Japan's social care reforms of the early 1970s led to a generous elderly care system but only modest and narrowly targeted support for children. Although child allowances and free medical care for the elderly were introduced almost simultaneously, they followed sharply divergent paths.
Ryotaro Takahashi
wiley   +1 more source

Social inequalities in return to work and social mobility after a cancer diagnosis: study protocol for a mixed-methods study in Central Germany. [PDF]

BMJ Open
Roick J, Heckel C, Richter M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Continued Policy Drift on the Funding of Adult Social Care in England: What Can Be Learned From the Shelving of Proposed Charging Reforms?

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021 the UK Government announced charging reforms relating to adult social care in England. The reforms would have ended a prolonged period of policy drift but were postponed in 2022 and cancelled in 2024. This paper reports on how different stakeholder groups perceived the reforms (and their delay), how they had been preparing for the ...
Philip Kinghorn, Rebecca Ince, Anne Hastings, Yvonne Birks, Denise Tanner   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring and decomposing inequalities in intrinsic capacity among older adults in china: from an urban-rural divide perspective. [PDF]

Aging Clin Exp Res
Zheng T, Chenyang L, Shangjun L, Shuqin X, Jiaqi D, Yanyan Z, Liwei J.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Perceptional Welfare Boundary for Migrant Families in China: What, Where and How?

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite recent reforms to China's hukou system, internal migrants in urban centres continue to face significant barriers in accessing welfare benefits and public services. This study introduces the concept of the perceptional welfare boundary to explain how welfare exclusion persists beyond formal institutional constraints.
Qiaobing Wu, Shirley Yang
wiley   +1 more source

A computational grounded theory based analysis of research on China's old-age social welfare system. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Agudamu, Li Y, Mi N, Pan X.
europepmc   +1 more source

Populist Radical Right Parties and Pension Privatization

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Populist radical right parties (PRRP) have experienced notable electoral success across Europe in recent decades. While their preferences regarding public social policy have been widely studied, their influence on private social policy remains underexplored. This article examines how PRRP seek to reconcile the tension between aiming to balance
Thomas Mayer
wiley   +1 more source

Policy effects of reduced pension contribution rate on innovation input--Empirical evidence from Zhejiang and Shandong provinces. [PDF]

PLoS One
He Z, Xu J.
europepmc   +1 more source