Part A. Income Inequality and Poverty in Britain and Europe: 1. What is
happening to the distribution of income in the UK?; 2. Income distribution
in European countries with L. Rainwater and T. Smeeding; 3. Poverty
statistics and progress in Europe; 4. Comparing poverty rates
internationally: recent studies in OECD countries; 5. Two nations in early
retirement? The case of Britain with H. Sutherland; Part B. Analysis of the
Welfare State: 6. Is the Welfare State necessarily a barrier to economic
growth?; 7. A national minimum? A history of ambiguity in the determination
of benefit scales in Britain; 8. The development of state pensions in the
United Kingdom; 9. Income maintenance for the unemployed in Britain and the
response to high unemployment; 10. Institutional features of unemployment
insurance and the working of the labour market; 11. Social insurance; Part
C. Targeting and the Future of Social Security Policy: 12. On targeting and
family benefits; 13. The Western experience with social safety nets; 14.
Towards a European safety net? 15. Beveridge, the national minimum and its
future in a European context; 16. State pensions for today and tomorrow;
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