The notion of a defined 'core package of essential health care services' has appeared in many different health reform proposals in the 1990s. This paper attempts to explore the possible objectives of the 'core package' component of health care reform. Two board applications are apparent: the use of essential packages to ration scarce public funds and the incorporation of a minimum benefit packa...

While existing research has analysed the intersecting migration and social security law, which stratifies migrants’ formal entitlements, less work been done on informal stratifications beyond law that determine substantive rights. This article illustrates barriers to de facto benefit receipt intra?EU migrant citizens may experience when claiming assistance in local German job centres, regardles...

This thematic issue aims to deepen the theoretical as well empirical knowledge on inclusiveness of social rights, focussing revelatory case parenting?related leave policies. editorial defines (leave) and discusses extant research varying entitlements eligibility criteria in field parenting leaves. It summarises conceptual, methodological, contributions made by articles closes with a outlook.

We investigate whether fairness concerns overrule strategic behaviour in legislative bargaining with entitlements. In a lab experiment, we vary power by using either majority rule or dictator to implement division. apply coarse measures order assess entitlements are respected. Our results show that experience over one third of proposers make “extreme” offers, assigning at most 10% the surplus p...

WIDER Annankatu 42 00100 HELSINKI FINLAND 1. Introduction (p.l) 2. Capabilities, well-being, agency and perceptions (p.6) 3. Social Technology, cooperation and conflicts (p.10) 4. Households economics, bargaining models and information bases (p.15) 5. Cooperative conflicts: Interests, contributions and perceptions (p.20) 6. Extended entitlements and perceived legitimacy (p.30) 7. Production, ea...