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Universality and selectivity in income support
— an assessment of the issues | | Author(s) | Sheila Shaver |
| Corporate Author | Social Policy Research Centre - SPRC, University of New South Wales |
| Journal title | SPRC Reports and Proceedings, no 134, February 1997 |
| Publisher | University of New South Wales, Sydney, February 1997 |
| Pages | 148 pp |
| Keywords | Social security benefits ; Pensions ; Economic status [elderly] ; Social policy ; Comparison ; Australia ; Germany ; Norway ; Sweden ; United Kingdom ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Since the 1980s, the scale and growth of social expenditure has come into question in most industrial nations. The large share of this expenditure devoted to the support of the aged, amidst growing numbers of old and very old people, puts pensions at the centre of this discussion. At issue is how best to achieve income adequacy for older people at least cost to government. The choice between universal and selective (means-tested) benefits is made newly relevant by the restructuring of western welfare states in the 1980s and 1990s. This issue is examined in a comparative analysis of income support for older people in six countries whose systems give varying weight to the principles of universality and selectivity: Australia, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the UK, and the US. Statistical studies presented in this report - derived from data from the Luxembourg Income Study and the International Social Survey Programme - are embedded in a discussion of citizenship, social cohesion, and the structure and restructuring of welfare states. The report includes analysis of attitudes to government and support for social expenditure in five of the six countries. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981119241 B |
| Classmark | JH: JJ: F:W: TM2: 48: 7YA: 767: 76N: 76P: 8: 7T |
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