Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia
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Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia

International Lessons and Policy Implications

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia

International Lessons and Policy Implications

About this book

Social investment policies have enjoyed prominence during recent welfare reforms across the OECD world, and yet there is insufficient long-term strategy for their success.

Reviewing labour market, family and education policies, this edited collection analyses the emergence of social investment policies in both Europe and East Asia. Adopting a life course perspective and examining both public and private investments, this book addresses key contemporary policy issues including care, learning, work, social mobility and inequalities.

Providing original observations, this seminal text explores the roads and barriers towards effective social investment policies, derives practical social policy implications and highlights important lessons for future policymaking.

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Yes, you can access Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia by Young Jun Choi, Timo Fleckenstein, Soohyun Lee, Jun Choi, Young,Fleckenstein, Timo,Young Jun Choi,Timo Fleckenstein,Soohyun Christine Lee in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Social Policy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of figures and tables
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Preface from the series editors
  9. 1. Introduction: social investments and welfare reform in Europe and East Asia
  10. 2. Work–family policy expansion and the idea of social investment: the cases of Germany, England, South Korea and Japan
  11. 3. Private education in South Korea: lessons for the West from past mistakes?
  12. 4. How do family background and shadow education affect academic performance and labour market outcomes in South Korea? Reasons for redistributive social investment
  13. 5. Employability, higher education and the knowledge economy
  14. 6. Does social investment make the labour market ‘flow’? Family policies and institutional complementarities in Italy, Spain, Japan and South Korea
  15. 7. The social investment approach and gender division of housework across East Asia and Europe
  16. 8. Employment outcomes of social investment in latecomer countries
  17. 9. Estimation of the human capital depreciation rate: an international comparison and policy implications in South Korea
  18. 10. Changing patterns of grandparenting and their implications for active ageing in England and South Korea
  19. 11. The governance of social investment policies in comparative perspective: long-term care in England and South Korea
  20. 12. Towards greater social investments and equality in Europe and East Asia: policies and politics