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The Right to Social Security

Book | 1st edition 2007 | Europe | Jef Van Langendonck
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What is the meaning of the “right to social security” for the world of today, at times of neo-liberalism and globalization? Which entitlements can individual citizens derive from this right? What is meant by “social security”? Is it only about minimum benefits, or also about income maintenance? Does it include assistance? Health care? Housing? Social services?
And how can a universal right to social security be compatible with the enormous diversity in economic development and in cultural values prevailing in this world? For being universal, is this right the same for everyone? Are there different “models” of social security?
And how does this right relate to the need for economic and social development in less developed nations? How does one bring social security to the masses employed in the “informal economy”? Does the international community have a duty to take positive action in order to implement this right in the poorer regions? Those are the crucial questions that are discussed in this book. It brings together the views and opinions of numerous specialists in social protection of all disciplines and from all parts of the world. It is therefore a unique and invaluable reference book for academics and social security law practitioners.

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Type of product Book
Format Hardback
EAN / ISSN 9789050956345
Series name Social Europe Series
Weight 920 g
Status Available
Number of pages xxii + 450 p.
Access to exercice No
Publisher Intersentia
Language English
Publication Date Feb 8, 2007
Available on Jurisquare No
Available on Strada Belgique No
Available on Strada Europe No
Available on Strada Luxembourg No
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  • Table of Contents
  • I. INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF THE RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY
  • 1. THE MEANING OF THE RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY
    Jef Van Langendonck
  • 2. CHANGING TIDES: A REVIVAL OF A RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH TO SOCIAL SECURITY
    Ursula Kulke, Michael Cichon, Karuna Pal
  • 3. DROIT À LA SÉCURITÉ SOCIALE ET DÉVELOPPEMENT HUMAIN
    Alain Euzéby, Chantal Euzéby
  • II. A SOCIAL POLICY APPROACH
  • 1. SOME SOCIAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF A RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY
    John Veit-Wilson
  • 2. TAX WELFARE – MAKING SOME MORE SECURE THAN OTHERS
    Adrian Sinfield
  • 3. SOCIAL SECURITY UNDER DEVOLUTION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
    Richard Parry
  • 4. THE POLITICS OF PENSION REFORM IN SOUTH EUROPEAN WELFARE STATES
    Theodoros Sakellaropoulos, Marina Angelaki
  • III. WHAT KIND OF A RIGHT?
  • 1. RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY?
    Konstantinos Kremalis
  • 2. WHAT A RIGHT – THE RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY?
    Eberhard Eichenhofer
  • 3. LEGAL RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS – A FUNCTIONAL AND CONSTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS
    Lotta Vahlne Westerhall
  • 4. SOCIAL SECURITY AND PRIVATE PROPERTY – HUMAN RIGHTS AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
    Asbjorn Kjonstad
  • 5. SOCIAL SECURITY RIGHTS
    Johan Put
  • IV. INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
  • 1. THE MEANING OF INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS IN SOCIAL SECURITY
    Frans Pennings
  • 2. COMMON DENOMINATORS OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL SECURITY
    Matti Mikkola
  • 3. L’EXÉCUTION DES ARRÊTS DE LA COUR EUROPÉENNE DES DROITS DE L’HOMME EN MATIÈRE DE SÉCURITÉ SOCIALE
    S. Günter Nagel
  • V. SOCIAL SECURITY OR FLEXICURITY?
  • 1. FLEX-SECURITY (INTERACTION BETWEEN POLICIES OF FLEXIBLE EMPLOYMENT AND STABLE SOCIAL SECURITY MEASURES)
    Andrzej Swiatkowski
  • 2. LABOUR MARKET FLEXIBILISATION AND THE RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY IN GERMANY
    Ingwer Ebsen
  • VI. THE RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD - A. INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS
  • 1. THE (NOT INSIGNIFICANT) RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY IN THE UNITED STATES
    Frank S. Bloch
  • 2. CHARACTERISTICS OF JAPANESE SOCIAL SECURITY
    Mitsuya Ichien
  • 3. THE RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY IN ISRAEL
    Hadara Bar-Mor
  • VI. THE RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD - B. CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
  • 1. THE RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY IN SLOVENIA
    Anjuta Bubnov-Skoberne
  • 2. SOCIAL SECURITY POLICIES IN WESTERN BALKANS
    Will Bartlett, Merita Vaso Xhumari
  • 3. THE RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY IN LITHUANIA
    Teodoras Medaiskis
  • VI. THE RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD - C. EMERGING ECONOMIES AND DEVELOPING NATIONS
  • 1. THE RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY – AN OVERVIEW OF THE BRAZILIAN MODEL
    Ingo Wolfgang Sarlet
  • 2. PRIVATIZATION VERSUS THE RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY: THE TAIWAN CASE
    Ming-Cheng Kuo
  • 3. REALISING SOCIAL SECURITY AS A HUMAN RIGHT IN SOUTH AFRICA: SOME CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
    Marius Olivier
  • 4. RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY: INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
    J.R. Bangera
  • 5. THE SOCIAL SECURITY: UNIVERSAL RIGHT?
    Bonyi Mukadi