Welfare Reform in East Asia: Towards Workfare

Chak Kwan Chan (Curatore)

Kinglun Ngok (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011

In many Western countries, social welfare payments are increasingly being made conditional on recipients doing voluntary work or attending job training courses, a system known as "welfare-to-work" or "workfare". Although social welfare in Asia is very different to the West, with much smaller social welfare budgets, a strong self-reliance and a much higher dependency on family networks to provide support, the workfare approach is also being adopted in many Asian countries. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of how welfare reform around work is implemented in leading East Asian. Based on the experiences of seven East Asian economies - including China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau - this book critically analyses current trends; the social, economic and political factors which lead to the implementation of workfare; compares the similarities and differences of workfare in the different polities and assesses their effectiveness.

• Curatore: Chak Kwan Chan, Kinglun Ngok
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Comparative Development and Policy in Asia
• Anno: 2011
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 178 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 520 gr.
• EAN: 9780415590266

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