The dramatic rise in the US social security and public health expenditure is only partially explained by the demographic trend, and may be due to the political complementarity between these two programs. We suggest that public health care increases the political constituency in favor of social security, and viceversa. Speci...cally, public health decreases the longevity di¤erential between low ...

In this paper we ask whether some aspects of social security, namely its role as providing insurance against uncertain life spans is welfare enhancing. We pose and calibrate models with agents differing in age, sex and marital histories where we compare the implications of different social security policies under a variety of market structures. We find no support for social security policies fo...

Due to the flexibilisation of labour and the trend towards the 'activating welfare state' social policies show an increasing interconnection of work and welfare issues. The Netherlands are no exception. It is generally believed that the Dutch welfare state is successfully activating its unemployed labour potential (often referred to as 'the Dutch Miracle'), and that flexible and part-time work ...

With regard to the legitimacy of welfare empirical evidence tends to defy pessimistic theories. Here this puzzling contradiction between facts and theory is seen as a result of insufficient understanding of people's motivations to support welfare. For improving such understanding an empirical instrument is developed and applied for measuring directly the various motivations people may have to p...

Introduction: The human resources are considered the main asset of anysociety. If used properly and effectively, it will create other sources and above all the added value. The quality of the life is usually dependent on the quality of human professional life including factors such as job security, services and welfare pensions, health services, income, and job quality. The purpose of this stud...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To review the current research on trauma-informed child-serving systems. Research on this topic, although sparse, is critically important because most children who come into contact with systems, including the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, have experienced at least one traumatic event. RECENT FINDINGS Very little research has actually been done on this topic ar...