Perspectives for social progress. Social investments have multiple benefits

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Link(s) zu Dokument(en):E-Medien Publikation
Veröffentlicht in:Sozialpolitik in Diskussion
Hauptverfasser: Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien (SchirmherrIn, Herausgebendes Organ), Buxbaum, Adi (HerausgeberIn)
Format: SerialVolume
Sprache:Deutsch
Veröffentlicht: AK Wien 2015
Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Table of contents
  • Preface (Kaske, Rudi)
  • Introduction (Buxbaum, Adi; Wöss, Josef)
  • Austerity has failed in Europe
  • Rays of hope on the way to a more social Europe?
  • Waiting for a paradigm shift
  • How will discursive and systemic contradictions be resolved?
  • Investing in the welfare state - examples
  • Can social policy in Europe be re-orientated and consistently embedded in the relevant institutions?
  • Bibliography
  • The costs of inaction (Schober, Christa; Rauscher, Olivia)
  • 1. Actions and their effects
  • 2. What are "costs of inaction"?
  • 3. How are costs of inaction measured and assessed?
  • 4. Problem areas of SROI and cost-benefit analyses
  • 5. Examples of SROI analyses
  • 6. Examples of cost-benefit analyses
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • On the economic necessity of a social investment state (Famira-Mühlberger, Ulrike)
  • 1. Economic effects of welfare policies
  • 2. Development of the social investment state
  • 3. Characteristics of a social investment state
  • 4. The economic logic of the social investment state
  • 5. The social investment state in Europe
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Social investment welfare state – growth, employment, and financial sustainability (Buxbaum, Adi; Pirklbauer, Sybille)
  • 1. Unemployment and social inequality in Europe are on the rise
  • 2. EU Commission: "New rhetoric" without a believable change in policy
  • 3. Chamber of Labour calculations show: "Yes, we can!"
  • 4. Insufficient funding of necessary investments - economic and social policy negligence
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • The success story of apprenticeships in public training centres (Hofbauer, Silvia; Kugi-Mazza, Edith; Sinowatz, Lisa)
  • 1. The precarious apprenticeship market and the role of the ÜBA framework
  • 2. Performance of the ÜBA system as regards participants and successful finishers
  • 3. Fiscal effects of the ÜBA system
  • 4. Unquantified positive budget effects of the ÜBA system
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • The positive effects of expanding all-day schooling in Austria (Kremzar, Kurt)
  • 1. Potential effects of expanding all-day schools
  • 2. Development of all-day schools in Austria
  • 3. Measures taken by the federal government since 2010
  • 4. All-day schools as an economic factor
  • 5. Economic benefit of investing in the expansion of all-day schools
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • 1,000 billion euros at stake (Wöss, Josef; Türk, Erik)
  • 1. Examining different labour market scenarios
  • 2. Current situation
  • 3. Europe in the year 2020
  • 4. Conclusions for social and economic policy
  • Bibliography
  • Authors
  • Main Findings at a Glance