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By Stephen McKay

ISBN-10: 031222348X

ISBN-13: 9780312223489

ISBN-10: 033372979X

ISBN-13: 9780333729793

ISBN-10: 134927562X

ISBN-13: 9781349275625

Social safety in Britain presents a complete and up to date research of the social protection approach in Britain. in addition to overlaying the historic and comparative context, the booklet explains cutting-edge advanced process merely. present concerns, comparable to the coverage debate round welfare reform and the consequences of the social safety method on members and households, also are mentioned. Social technological know-how scholars, lecturers and execs in lots of fields will locate this publication a useful advisor.

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1K. l 2' .. USA 1-1. 14. 1 Ru ..... 5 Low incomes pre- and post-transfer, and direct tax (Bradshaw and Chen's 1997 analysis of the third wave of the Luxembourg Income Study) 50 The International Context 43 poverty appears comparable to that of many other European countries. If we use income, the UK seems to sink towards the bottom of the international poverty league. Does this tell us much about the efficiency of social security? Hausman (1993), using different data, has found, perhaps surprisingly, that the social security systems of each country perform similar roles in reducing the extent of poverty.

At the end of the eighteenth century, bad harvests led to fears that a revolution similar to the recent one in France might be repeated this side of the channel. Partly as a response to these fears, Berkshire JPs in Speenhamland in 1795 decided to supplement the wages of poor labourers to ensure that they could afford to buy bread in an inflationary economic environment. The 'Speenhamland System' was, however, rela- 46 Social Security in Britain tively short lived and localised. Critics argued that it kept wages artificially low because employers knew that wages would be increased by other means.

1) 25 The International Context 39 The researchers classified the systems they found in two different ways. First, countries were placed by reference to the two dimensions of the extent of coverage of benefits (high and low) and the level of benefit actually paid. Thus, Australia had wide coverage and high benefits, the UK wide coverage and low benefits, Southern Europe low coverage and low benefits and so on. The authors suggested that seven different types of system could be identified. However, they did not aim to explain the types of variation that they found.

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