Social Policy
No 10 (415), 2008
We Recommend the papers:
Gertruda Uścińska – Co-ordination of Social security systems. Contemporary challenges
The paper is dealing with issues having a direct impact on the actual state of affairs connected with the rule of the freedom of movement. The coordination of social security schemes is based on a rule of professional mobility of workers and other professionals. The change on the labor market, including the increased flexibility and changes in national legislations, are the true challenge for coordination regulations. Finally, the process of coordination is to be analyzed in a broader legal framework of community law, laws stemming from European Citizenship, and the freedom of movement law (Directive 2004/83). As the article shows, these are not fully compatible and this fact is causing a number of problems, both legal and social, for people trying to freely move from one EU Member Sate to another.
Mateusz Kocur – Law on the family benfeits: social and economic consequences
Law on the family benefits had changed rules of subsidizing lonely parents. Analysis of a period before the change of the law and during next changes shows that the change resulted in increasing of state budget’s costs, and of amount of entitled persons at the beginning of changes and later on returned to the primary level, and moreover average subsidy has decreased. Results of analysis divorces’ and separations’ figures and during the changing of law indicate that there is high probability, suggested by the journalists, that the law’s changes in rules of subsidizing caused an increase of petitions for divorce and separations and granted separations.
Marta Czechowska-Bieluga, Anna kanios, Ewa Sarzyńska – Work motivation at the beginning of professional career
Nowadays, thousands job vacancies exist despite large numbers of the unemployed. Work motivation may be one of the causes of this phenomenon. The purpose of the study was to determine selected aspects of work motivation of debutants on the labour market as well as to compare motivation levels in people in and without employment. The analysis was conducted with the use of C. Alderfer’s ERG Theory of motivation. There were no statistically significant differences in the levels of work motivation between the two groups studied. Both the participants in employment and the unemployed were likely to demonstrate high levels of work motivation. However, differences in intrapersonal motivational factors were noted. The motivation of the participants in work was influenced mainly by ambitions, whereas self-perception was found to be the most important factor for those out of work.
Rober Pawlak – Universal educational vouchers In Chile
The aim of the paper is to present the assumptions, implementation and consequences of education reform introduced by the Chilean government in the eightieth of the last century. That reform is often perceived as a textbook example of the market oriented voucher plan. The paper presents its pros and cons. Do universal vouchers improve education?
Michał Stanikowski – Fertility preferences versus demographic policy of China
Demographic policy accompany’s Chinese society since fifties till now. During that period number of campaigns declining natural increase and population size were introduced resulting significant decrease of demographic measures. Apart visible changes in fertility behaviors, population campaigns in interaction with socio-economic factors influenced also to some degree fertility preferences for gender and desired number of children. Article focuses on the issue of China’s population policy and it’s demographic context as well as on it’s impact on fertility preferences of Chinese society.
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"Social Policy " - Contents No 10/2008
CO-ORDINATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEMS. CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES – Gertruda Uścińska
LAW ON THE FAMILY BENEFITS: SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES – Mateusz Kocur
FROM RESEARCH AND STUDIES
WORK MOTIVATION AT THE BEGINNING OF PROFESIONAL CAREER – Marta Czechowska-Bieługa, Anna Kanios, Ewa Sarzyńska
SOCIAL POLICY ABROAD
UNIVERSAL EDUCATIONAL VOUCHERS IN CHILE – Robert Pawlak
FERTILITY PREFERENCES VERSUS DEMOGRAPHIC POLICY OF CHINA – Michał Stanikowski
BOOK REVIEWS
Cezary Włodarczyk (ed.): PUBLIC HEALTH AND MANAGEMENT – Reviewed by Dariusz Zalewski
Grzegorz Gawron, Bożena Pactwa: FACTORS INFLUENCING INTEGRATION AND REINTEGRATION OF WOMEN ON REGIONAL LABOUR MARKET – Reviewed by Robert Geisler
René Lüchinger: 12 ICONS OF ECONOMY FROM SMITH TO STIGLITZ – Reviewed by Krzysztof Kietliński
INFORMATION
MODIFICATION OF SOCIAL MINIMUM – MARCH AND JUNE 2008 – Piotr Kurowski
SOCIAL OUTCOMES OF THE EU ACCESSION. YEARLY CONFERENCE OF SOCIAL POLICY MAKERS – Beata Kaczyńska
NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED BY THE INSTITUTE OF LABOUR AND SOCIAL STUDIES
DIARY OF SOCIAL POLICY
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