Ethics and social security reform / edited by Erik Schokkaert.

"Derived from papers presented at small annual FISS conferences in Sigtuna, Sweden--the Sigtuna seminars"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references.

Machine generated contents note: PART 1: Ethical concepts and principles -- 1.1 Altruism, efficiency and justice: ethical challenges to the -- welfare state -- Erik Schokkaert -- 1.2 The ethics and the normgiving: the example of rehabilitation -- Lotta Westerhall -- 1.3 Crossing frontiers: migration and social security -- Simon Roberts -- 1.4 Alternative measures of national poverty: perspectives and -- assessment -- Robert H. Haveman and Melissa Mullikin -- 1.5 The measurement of absolute poverty -- Jonathan Bradshaw -- PART 2: Ethics and attitudes -- 2.1 Popularity and participation: social security reform in -- Australia -- Peter Saunders and Maneerat Pinyopusarerk -- 2.2 Coping with risk: attitudes towards private unemployment -- insurance in Britain and Germany -- Andreas Cebulla -- PART 3: Ethics and the evaluation of concrete institutions -- 3.1 The pre-market phase: the transition from a state-controlled to -- a market-based social security system -- Jasper C. van den Brink and Esther N. Bergsma -- 3.2 Public programs create private incentives and disincentives -- toward work -- Barbara L. Wolfe -- 3.3 Social security, intergovernmental fiscal relations and -- efficiency: the case of the two systems of public assistance for -- the unemployed in Germany -- Martin T. W Rosenfeld -- 3.4 Skills, gender equality and the distributional impact of female -- labour market participation in the three worlds of welfare -- capitalism -- Bea Cantillon, Joris Ghysels, Ninke Mussche and -- Rudi van Dam -- 3.5 What determines work resumption from long sickness spells? -- - an analysis of six countries -- Edward Palmer andAli Tasiran -- 3.6 Demographic change and partial funding: is the Swedish -- pension reform a role model for Germany? -- Jochen Jagob and Werner Sesselmeier -- List of contributors.