Challenges to the Welfare State

Challenges to the Welfare State

Family and Pension Policies in the Baltic and Nordic Countries

Hort, Sven E. O.; Aidukaite, Jolanta; Kuhnle, Stein

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

12/2021

320

Dura

Inglês

9781839106101

15 a 20 dias

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Contents:

Preface xii

1 Introduction: Baltic and Nordic countries from
a comparative perspective - family policies and pensions
in the era of ageing 1
Jolanta Aidukaite, Sven E. O. Hort and Stein Kuhnle

PART I PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILY POLICY
2 Family support systems in the Baltic and Nordic countries:
an explorative overview 11
Jolanta Aidukaite
3 Demographic challenges of Europe in the new millennium:
Swedish family policies as an answer to them 33
Livia Sz. Olah and Gerda Neyer
4 Nordic family policy in the 2000s: from a 'transfer-based'
towards a 'service-based' family policy? 52
Mia Hakovirta and Mikael Nygard
5 Family policy support for the earner-carer and
traditional-family models in Lithuania and Sweden1 72
Katharina Wesolowski, Sunnee Billingsley and Gerda Neyer
6 The sustainability of family support systems in the 21st
century: comparing Sweden and Lithuania 94
Jolanta Aidukaite and Kristina Senkuviene
7 Cost of childcare: evolution of regional diversity in Estonia 119
Mare Ainsaar and Mona Soukand

PART II PERSPECTIVES ON PENSION PROTECTION
IN THE ERA OF AGEING
8 Ageing and the welfare state: welfare policies and attitudes in the Baltic and Nordic countries 137
Jolanta Aidukaite, Sven E. O. Hort and Mare Ainsaar
9 Gender inequalities in family leaves, employment and
pensions in Finland 160
Kati Kuitto and Susan Kuivalainen
10 Approaches to minimum-income protection in old age:
comparing the three Scandinavian countries 180
Axel West Pedersen
11 Pension systems as risk management: a case of the Baltic states 202
Olga Rajevska
12 Looking for an adequate and sustainable old-age pension
system: comparing Sweden and Lithuania 224
Teodoras Medaiskis and Sarunas Eirosius
13 The inequality of public pension benefits for the elderly
using Estonian data 248
Magnus Piirits
14 Stretching the canvas: beyond welfare state typologies to
capability and agency 267
Barbara Hobson

Index
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Welfare state; social policy; social insurance; pension; family policy; poverty; Baltic States; Nordic countries