Losing Grip  

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Marx, lye

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethical Perspectives: Journal of the European Ethics Network vol. 3 no. 1 (Apr. 1996), page 29-38.
Topik: Losing Grip

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE45.2 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This article explores how the structural decline in the earning-capacity of the less skilled is affecting the demands on, and the workings of, the welfare state. The focus will be on Belgium as a case-study of a transfer-oriented social insurance system that has been relatively effective in keeping overall poverty levels down under conditions of high unemployment. Whereas the market clearing approach through deregulation has had unexpected adverse social consequences, the transfer-induced labour reduction approach has produced far more favourable social outcomes. Despite its relative success, however, the transfer model seems to have contributed to the emergence of a new class of excluded individuals: non-employed less skilled women who are unable to gain access to the labour market due, at least partially, to prohibitively high labour costs that are a direct consequence of the need to finance the transfer system. In a sense, the system has fallen victim to its own success by contributing to the emergence of a type of need that it is inherently incapable of alleviating. About half the poor of working age, mostly non-employed less skilled women, are not covered by the social protection system at all. happening is now beyond dispute (Blank, 1995;

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