Welfare Reform: A Comparative Assessment of the French and U. S. Experiences

by Neil Gilbert and Rosemary A. Stevens

Since the late 1980s welfare policies in France and the United States have increasingly been shaped by a strong emphasis on citizens' obligations to work and be independent, and a weakening of entitlements to income maintenance. Throughout the advanced industrialized nations, welfare reforms incorporate work-oriented measures such as financial incentives, insertion contracts, training, and requirements to search for and accept jobs. The evidence in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765808021
• ISBN13: 9780765808028
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"