Children and social security /
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Imprint: | Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2003. |
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Description: | xxxii, 251 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | International studies in social security ; v. 8 |
Subject: | Child welfare -- Cross-cultural studies. Child welfare. Cross-cultural studies. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5519045 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction and overview
- Part 1. International comparisons of child poverty
- 1.1. After welfare reform and an economic boom: why is child poverty still so much higher in the U.S. than in Europe?
- 1.2. The poverty and social exclusion survey of Britain: implications for the assessment of social security provision for children in Europe
- 1.3. Economic well-being of children in the deep Swedish recession of the 1990s
- 1.4. Child poverty a la carte? The effects of measurement period for income on poverty estimates
- Part 2. Child benefit packages
- 2.1. Cash benefits for children in four Anglo-American countries
- 2.2. Understanding the generosity of government financial support to families with children
- 2.3. Re-orienting support for children in New Zealand
- 2.4. Child expenditure and public pensions: policy issues
- Part 3. Other aspects of social security provision for children
- 3.1. Formalising the informal: family obligations in modern Asia
- 3.2. Child support reforms in the United Kingdom and the United States
- 3.3. Extending cash social assistance to children and their caregivers: a South African case study
- 3.4. Is it possible to satisfy people who encounter the system of social services?
- 3.5. Costs and benefits of child care services in Switzerland - empirical results for Zurich