Title: Paying the jobless : a comparison of unemployment benefit policies in Great Britain and Germany /
Authors: Clasen, Jochen.
Publisher: Avebury,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Unemployment insurance Great Britain.; Unemployment insurance Germany
Contents: 1. Unemployment benefits and comparative social policy -- 2. Unemployment and social security -- 3. The origin and development of benefit regimes in Great Britain and Germany -- 4. Unemployment benefits at a time of a perceived shortage of labour: the second half of the 1960s -- 5. Unemployment benefits under economic constraints: the mid 1970s -- 6. Benefit changes and the crisis in the welfare state: the first half of the 1980s -- 7. Benefit changes under established conservative hegemonies: the second half of the 1980s -- 8. The role of policy legacies and institutions -- App. A: Outcomes of General Elections 1964 -- 1987 -- App. B: Germany: additional tables.