Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Why Focus on Social Protection? -- 1.2 Theories of Social Protection in Latin America -- 1.3 Some New Departures… -- 1.3.1 Wage Earners Are the Object of Social Protection Institutions -- 1.3.2 Social Protection Institutions Are Stratification Mechanisms -- 1.3.3 Social Protection Institutions and Dominant Forms of Stratification -- 1.3.4 Methodologically, from Correlation to Causality -- 1.4 The Approach in This Book -- 1.4.1 The Need for Theory -- 1.4.2 A Late Industrialisers Perspective -- 1.4.3 A Dynamic and Comparative Perspective Is Essential… -- 1.4.4 Comparative Social Protection -- 1.4.5 Shortcuts: Pensions and Social Assistance -- 1.5 The Structure of the Book -- 1.5.1 Framework -- References -- 2: Methods -- 2.1 Methods in the Comparative Literature -- 2.2 Shifting Attention to Causality -- 2.3 'Effects of Causes' and 'Causes of Effects' Explanations -- 2.4 The Potential Outcomes Framework -- 2.5 Directed Acyclical Graphs -- 2.6 Causality Deficits in Social Protection Research -- 2.7 Methodological Challenges -- 2.8 Conclusions -- References -- 3: Framework -- 3.1 Framework -- 3.1.1 Synchronic: Core Institutions -- 3.1.2 Diachronic: Critical Realignments -- 3.1.3 Analytic: Dominant Stratification -- 3.2 Stratification and Theories of Welfare Institutions: A Digression -- 3.3 Stratification Effects -- 3.4 Testing the Framework -- 3.4.1 Origins -- 3.4.2 Stratification Effects -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4: Institutions -- 4.1 Data and Indicators -- 4.2 Pension Schemes -- 4.2.1 Occupational Pensions -- 4.2.1.1 Bismarck vs. Beveridge -- 4.2.1.2 Membership Entitlements -- 4.2.1.3 A Less Advantaged Worker Perspective -- 4.2.2 Individual Retirement Savings Plans.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (306 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783031497957
Series Statement:
Global Dynamics of Social Policy Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31323966
DDC:
361.61098
Language:
English
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
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