A generation of change, a lifetime of difference : social policy in Britain since 1979 / Martin Evans and Lewis Williams.
This original book provides an overview of changes in social and fiscal policy since the 1970s, using an original and unique lifetime simulation approach to analyse how changes in these policies would affect people of low median and high income living in 1979, 1997 and 2008 if they lived their whole...
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| Other title: | Cover subtitle: Social policy in Britain since 1979 British social policy since 1979 |
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| Language: | English |
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Bristol ; Portland, OR :
Policy Press,
©2009.
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Table of Contents:
- A generation of change, a lifetime of difference?; Contents; List of figures, tables and boxes; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The changing British welfare state; 3. Changing lives and a changing economy; 4. Childhood; 5. Working age: taxation; 6. Working age: safety nets and housing; 7. Working age risks: social insurance; 8. Working age risks: disability, caring and lone parenthood; 9. Old age and retirement; 10. Taxes, benefits and national profiles of inequality and poverty; 11. LOIS and model lifetimes; 12. The Meades; 13. The Moores; 14. The Lowes.