Welfare Reform in European Countries: A Microsimulation Analysis

Tax - Benefit Reform in Spain in a European Context : : A non - behavioural and integrated microsimulation analysis

The Global Human Rights Agenda and European Welfare Reform

The paper will argue that the ascendancy of human rights discourse, in both its global and domestic political contexts, has ambiguous consequences for the development of social policy. Recent instances of that ascendancy may be found on the one hand in the UNDP's 'World Development Report 2000', and on the other in the 'Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union', proclaimed in Decembe...

Welfare Reform in South Carolina: A Preliminary Analysis

Children and welfare reform: analysis and recommendations.

C hildren do best when they grow up in low-conflict families, with parents who are married to each other and who earn enough to meet their family's needs. The evidence on this is strong and widely accepted. 1 The challenge for our nation's welfare system is to determine how best to help children in families that do not have the support of both parents and that do not have enough income. About h...

Welfare Reform in Australia:

Australia, in line with other developed countries, has increasingly adopted a ‘participation’ framework for Welfare Reform. This approach to welfare reform is based on the idea that moving people from ‘welfare to work’ is best facilitated by policies that balance three main policy levers – assistance, incentives and requirements. Using research and evaluation findings from Europe, the USA, the ...