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Pensions across generations: scenarios for the Maltese Islands 跨代养老金:马耳他群岛的情景
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-03-28 DOI: 10.1080/21699763.2019.1593878
M. Vella, Philip von Brockdorff
ABSTRACT This paper tests whether in a PAYG system there is an inter-generational balance between the contributions made during the working-career and the pension benefit received in retirement; covering different cohorts. The analysis takes Malta as a case study. Though the dependency ratio is comparatively low, the population is rapidly ageing. The results show that there is a generational imbalance with the young cohort unlikely to be any better off than those who have already retired. This however is sensitive to the assumed discount rate and the ‘no policy’ change scenario. The results also show that future generations may be net-gainers assuming a sustained level of wage growth. If, on the other hand, wage growth slows, the younger generation may become increasingly reliant on the bequests of older generations. This would explain why pressure has increased to regularly adjust the existing PAYG system as well to introduce other forms of pension schemes.
摘要:本文检验了现收现付制下,劳动者在职业生涯期间的缴费与退休后领取的养老金之间是否存在代际平衡;涵盖不同的人群。本分析以马耳他为例。虽然抚养比率相对较低,但人口正在迅速老龄化。结果显示,存在代际不平衡,年轻一代不太可能比那些已经退休的人过得更好。然而,这对假设的贴现率和“没有政策”变化的情况很敏感。研究结果还表明,假设工资水平持续增长,未来几代人可能是净收益者。另一方面,如果工资增长放缓,年轻一代可能会越来越依赖老一辈的遗产。这可以解释为什么定期调整现有现收现付制度以及引入其他形式的养老金计划的压力越来越大。
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引用次数: 2
The financialisation of transnational family care: a study of UK-based senders of remittances to Ghana and Nigeria 跨国家庭护理的金融化:对英国向加纳和尼日利亚汇款的汇款人的研究
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-03-27 DOI: 10.1080/21699763.2019.1593879
N. Yeates, Freda Owusu-Sekyere
ABSTRACT Transnational families occupy centre-stage in literatures on transformations in the social organisation and relations of care and welfare because they express how social bonds are sustained despite geographical separation. This paper examines some key themes arising from a research study into remittance-sending practices of UK-based Ghanaians and Nigerians in the light of research literatures on transnational family care and development finance. The data comprises qualitative interviews with 20 UK-based Ghanaian and Nigerian people who regularly send remittances to their families ‘back home’. This paper discusses a social issue that arises from the transnationalisation of family structures and relations, when migrant family members are positioned within family networks as ‘absent providers’, and familial relations eventually become financialised. The findings show the complexities of transnational living, the hardships endured by remittance-senders and the particular strains of remittance-mediated family relationships. The financialisation of family relations affects the social subjectivity and positioning of remittance-senders within the family. Strain and privation are integral to participants’ experiences of transnational family life, while themes of deception, betrayal, and expatriation also feature. The suppression of emotion is a feature of the significant labour inputs participants make in sustaining relationships within transnational families. The paper considers UK social policy implications of the findings.
跨国家庭在关于社会组织变革以及照顾和福利关系的文献中占据了中心位置,因为它们表达了尽管地理分离,社会纽带是如何维持的。本文结合跨国家庭护理和发展金融的研究文献,探讨了英国加纳人和尼日利亚人汇款实践研究中出现的一些关键主题。这些数据包括对20名英国加纳和尼日利亚人的定性采访,他们定期向“家乡”的家人汇款。本文讨论了家庭结构和关系的跨国化所产生的一个社会问题,即移民家庭成员在家庭网络中被定位为“缺席的提供者”,家庭关系最终变得金融化。调查结果显示了跨国生活的复杂性、汇款人所承受的苦难以及汇款介导的家庭关系的特殊压力。家庭关系的金融化影响汇款人在家庭中的社会主体性和定位。压力和匮乏是参与者跨国家庭生活经历中不可或缺的一部分,而欺骗、背叛和移居国外的主题也很突出。抑制情绪是参与者在维持跨国家庭关系方面投入的重要劳动的一个特点。本文考虑了研究结果对英国社会政策的影响。
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引用次数: 2
An approach to the development of comparative cross-national studies of street-level bureaucracy 街头官僚机构跨国比较研究的发展途径
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-03-27 DOI: 10.1080/21699763.2019.1593880
Michael Hill, M. Møller
ABSTRACT Propositions about street-level bureaucracy run the risk of violating the scientific precept that a theoretical generalisation should be tested by replication in a variety of contexts. Many examples can be found of writings that simply indicate that street-level discretion is pervasive. This prompts the questions, ‘but how’, and under what conditions ‘may’ that happen? Comparison is needed to answer these questions, particularly cross-national ones. It will be argued that good cross-national comparative work must rest upon precise specification of the contexts to be compared and avoiding comparing tasks that seem similar, but in fact serve different functions in different contexts. To explore this one particular task – pre-school child care – is selected. The discussion of this specific example is examined as a model for similar comparative work.
关于街头官僚主义的命题有违反科学规律的风险,即理论概括应该通过在各种背景下的复制来检验。可以找到许多例子,表明街头的自由裁量权是普遍存在的。这就引出了这样的问题,“但是如何”,以及在什么条件下“可能”发生?要回答这些问题,特别是跨国问题,需要进行比较。有人认为,良好的跨国比较工作必须建立在精确地说明要比较的背景和避免比较看似相似但实际上在不同背景下具有不同功能的任务的基础上。为了探索这一特殊的任务-学前儿童保育-被选中。对这个具体例子的讨论是作为类似比较工作的一个模型进行审查的。
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引用次数: 6
Income security in Nordic welfare states for men and women who died when aged 55–69 years old 北欧福利国家55-69岁死亡男女的收入保障
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-03-19 DOI: 10.1080/21699763.2019.1593877
J. Elstad, Å. Hermansen, H. Brønnum-Hansen, P. Martikainen, O. Östergren, L. Tarkiainen
ABSTRACT Income security when health impairment or other social risks occur is a major objective of welfare states. This comparative study uses register data from four Nordic welfare states for examining equivalized disposable income during the last 12 years alive among men and women who died when aged 55–69 years old. The analysed outcome indicates the aggregate result of a varied set of income maintenance mechanisms. Median income increased in the Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish samples, but decreased somewhat in Denmark, probably due to relatively frequent transitions to retirement and larger income drops after retirement than in the other Nordic countries. Analyses of comparison samples weighted by propensity scores indicated a better income development among those who lived beyond the observation period than among those who died. The higher educated had a more favourable income development during the years prior to death than those with low education.
当健康损害或其他社会风险发生时,收入保障是福利国家的主要目标。这项比较研究使用来自四个北欧福利国家的登记数据来检查55-69岁之间死亡的男性和女性在过去12年的等效可支配收入。分析的结果表明了一套不同的收入维持机制的总结果。芬兰、挪威和瑞典样本的收入中位数有所增加,但丹麦样本的收入中位数有所下降,这可能是由于相对频繁的退休过渡和退休后收入下降幅度大于其他北欧国家。通过倾向得分加权的比较样本分析表明,在观察期后存活的人比死亡的人收入发展更好。受教育程度较高的人在死亡前几年的收入发展比受教育程度较低的人更有利。
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引用次数: 5
A Bottom-up picture of intra-national welfare regimes: the case of marginalised communities in Puerto Rico 国家内部福利制度自下而上的图景:波多黎各边缘化社区的案例
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-02-02 DOI: 10.1080/21699763.2018.1526696
Gibrán Cruz-Martínez
ABSTRACT The main purpose of this article is twofold: (1) an examination of welfare regimes using a bottom-up approach, which enables a comprehensive analysis of welfare production based on recipients perceptions; and (2) an examination of more than one type of welfare-mix coexisting inside the national level across policy sectors. A classification of welfare regimes is carried out following a bottom-up approach and relying on the basis of the importance of welfare providers to satisfy social risks and promote well-being. Three traditional (e.g. state, market, family) and one alternative welfare providers (e.g. community) are considered. Data is collected through twenty semi-structured interviews in seven marginalised communities of Puerto Rico. The results show five configurations of intra-national welfare-mixes across the following welfare areas: housing, nourishment, health, education, maternity/paternity, disability, work-unemployment and older-age. This paper contributes to the theoretical proposals of intra-national welfare regimes, and alternatives providers in the welfare-mix.
本文的主要目的有两个:(1)使用自下而上的方法对福利制度进行检查,从而能够根据接受者的看法对福利生产进行全面分析;(2)对一种以上的福利组合在国家层面上跨政策部门共存的检验。福利制度的分类是按照自下而上的方法进行的,并依赖于福利提供者在满足社会风险和促进福祉方面的重要性。考虑了三个传统的(如国家、市场、家庭)和一个替代的福利提供者(如社区)。数据是通过在波多黎各七个边缘化社区进行的20次半结构化访谈收集的。结果显示了以下福利领域的国内福利混合的五种配置:住房、营养、保健、教育、产妇/父亲、残疾、工作-失业和老年。本文提出了国内福利制度的理论建议,以及福利组合中的替代提供者。
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引用次数: 4
ICS volume 35 issue 1 Cover and Front matter ICS第35卷第1期封面和封面问题
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-02-01 DOI: 10.1017/s2169976300001388
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引用次数: 0
Childcare deserts and distributional disadvantages: the legacies of split childcare policies and programmes in Canada 儿童保育沙漠和分配劣势:加拿大儿童保育政策和方案的分裂遗留问题
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21699763.2018.1526700
S. Prentice, L. White
ABSTRACT Early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies and services in Canada exhibit marked gaps in access, creating ‘childcare deserts’ and distributional disadvantages. Cognate family policies that support children and families, such as parental leave and child benefits, are also underdeveloped. This article examines the current state of ECEC services in Canada and the reasons behind the uncoordinated array of services and policy, namely, a liberal welfare state tradition that historically has encouraged private and market-based care, a comparatively decentralised federal system that militates against coordinated policy-making, and a welfare state built on gendered assumptions about care work. The article assesses recent government initiatives, including the federal 2017 Multilateral Framework on Early Learning and Child Care, concluding that existing federal and provincial initiatives have limited potential to bring about paradigmatic third-order change.
加拿大的幼儿教育和护理(ECEC)政策和服务在获取方面存在明显差距,造成了“儿童保育沙漠”和分配劣势。支持儿童和家庭的同源家庭政策,如育儿假和儿童福利,也不发达。本文考察了加拿大ECEC服务的现状以及服务和政策不协调背后的原因,即,自由福利国家传统历来鼓励私人和基于市场的护理,相对分散的联邦制度不利于协调决策,福利国家建立在对护理工作的性别假设之上。本文评估了最近的政府举措,包括2017年联邦早期学习和儿童保育多边框架,得出结论认为,现有的联邦和省级举措在带来范式三阶变化方面的潜力有限。
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引用次数: 12
Icon and taboo: single-payer politics in Canada and the US 图标与禁忌:加拿大和美国的单一付款人政治
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21699763.2018.1550010
C. Tuohy
ABSTRACT In 1965 and 1966, the United States and Canada adopted single-payer models of government insurance for physician and hospital services – universal in Canada, but restricted to certain population groups in the US. At the time, the American and Canadian political economies of health care and landscapes of public opinion were remarkably similar, and the different policy designs must be understood as products of the distinctive macro-level politics of the day. Subsequently, however, the different scopes of single-payer coverage would drive the two systems in different directions. In Canada, the single-payer system became entrenched in popular support and in the nexus of interest it created between the medical profession and the state. In the US, Medicare became similarly entrenched in popular support, but did so as part of the larger multi-payer private insurance system. In the process universal single-payer coverage became politically iconic in Canada and taboo in the US.
摘要1965年和1966年,美国和加拿大为医生和医院服务采用了单一付款人的政府保险模式——在加拿大是普遍的,但仅限于美国的某些人口群体,不同的政策设计必须被理解为当时独特的宏观政治的产物。然而,随后,单一付款人覆盖范围的不同将推动这两个系统朝着不同的方向发展。在加拿大,单一付款人制度在民众的支持以及它在医疗行业和国家之间建立的利益关系中根深蒂固。在美国,医疗保险也同样得到了民众的支持,但它是更大的多付款人私人保险系统的一部分。在此过程中,普遍的单一付款人保险在加拿大成为政治标志,在美国成为禁忌。
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引用次数: 3
President Obama, poverty, and the scope and limits of social policy change 奥巴马总统,贫困,以及社会政策变化的范围和限制
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21699763.2018.1563560
Alex Waddan
ABSTRACT There has been a growing discussion in recent years about rising inequality in the U.S. Yet, this discourse, in focusing on the fortunes of the top 1%, distracted attention from the design of policy initiatives aimed at improving socio-economic conditions for the poor. This paper examines the development of anti-poverty politics and policy in the US during the Obama era. It analyses how effective the strategies and programmes adopted were and asks how they fit with models of policy change. The paper illustrates that the Obama administration did adopt an array of anti-poverty measures in the stimulus bill, but these built on existing programmes rather than create new ones and much of the effort was stymied by institutional obstacles. The expansion of the Medicaid program, which was part of the ACA, was also muted by institutional opposition, but it was a more path breaking reform than is often appreciated.
摘要近年来,关于美国日益加剧的不平等现象的讨论越来越多。然而,这种关注最富有的1%人群财富的讨论,分散了人们对旨在改善穷人社会经济条件的政策举措设计的注意力。本文考察了奥巴马时代美国反贫困政治和政策的发展。它分析了所采取的战略和方案的有效性,并询问它们如何与政策变化模式相适应。该文件表明,奥巴马政府确实在刺激法案中采取了一系列反贫困措施,但这些措施建立在现有计划的基础上,而不是创建新的计划,而且大部分努力都受到了体制障碍的阻碍。作为ACA的一部分,医疗补助计划的扩大也受到了机构反对的压制,但这是一项比人们通常认为的更具突破性的改革。
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引用次数: 2
Policy or window dressing? Exploring the impact of poverty reduction strategies on poverty among the Canadian provinces 政策还是粉饰?探讨减贫战略对加拿大各省贫困的影响
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21699763.2018.1549090
C. Plante
ABSTRACT Poverty reduction strategies (PRS) have become a popular instrument for addressing poverty globally. According to their proponents, PRS focus and coordinate poverty reduction efforts in order to overcome traditional economic and socio-demographic obstacles and reduce poverty unconditionally. According to their detractors, however, governments use PRS as ‘window dressing’ to gloss over unsuccessful and/or partial poverty reduction efforts. In Canada, all ten provinces have committed to adopting PRS. In this study, I identify the timing of the introduction of PRS action plans and explore whether they have tended to coincide with changes in provincial poverty levels. I find that more often than not levels have actually dropped before rather than after the introduction of PRS. This suggests that governments may have indeed used PRS as window dressing – but to showcase and claim credit for poverty reduction successes.
减贫战略已成为全球解决贫困问题的一种流行工具。根据其支持者的说法,减贫战略侧重于并协调减贫工作,以克服传统的经济和社会人口障碍,无条件地减少贫困。然而,根据批评者的说法,政府将减贫战略作为“粉饰”,以掩盖不成功和/或部分减贫努力。在加拿大,所有十个省都承诺采用减贫战略。在这项研究中,我确定了实施减贫战略行动计划的时间,并探讨了这些计划是否与省级贫困水平的变化相吻合。我发现,在推行生产者责任计划之前,而不是之后,实际水平往往有所下降。这表明,各国政府可能确实将减贫战略作为粉饰,但却是为了展示和赞扬减贫的成功。
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