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FINAL REMINDER
CLOSING DATE FOR REGISTRATION, MAY 30th 2000
What Future for Social Security?
Cross-national and multi-disciplinary perspectives
15-17 June 2000
University of Stirling
Keynote speakers
Professor Ann Shola Orloff, Northwestern University, USA
Women's Employment, Inequalities, and State Policies
Professor Winfried Schmähl, University of Bremen, Germany
'Multi-Pillar Schemes' and 'Individual Accounts': Concepts and Strategies in
Pension Policy
Professor Zsuzsa Ferge, Eötvös Lorand University, Hungary
Pure market contracts and messy social contracts in assuring security
Professor Olli Kangas, University of Turku, Finland
For better for worse: economic growth and the position of the poor
Other speakers:
Mike Adler (UK), Helen Bolderson (UK), Jonathan Bradshaw (UK), Giuliano
Bonoli (Switzerland), Francis G. Castles (Australia), John Dixon (UK),
Abraham Doron (Israel), Martin Evans (UK), Jørgen Goul Andersen (Denmark),
Paul Henman (Australia), Karl Hinrichs (Germany), Jon Kvist (Denmark), Lutz
Leisering (Germany), Deborah Mabbett (UK), Francois Merrien (Switzerland),
Jane Millar (UK), Luis Moreno (Spain), Mojca Novak (Slovenia), Einar Øverbye
(Norway), Bruno Palier (France), Heather Trickey (UK), Wim van Oorschot
(Netherlands)
Themes of the Conference
1. Changing Principles within Social Security
meanings and objectives of social security in the 21st Century; what future
for social insurance and the contributory principle?; rights and
responsibilities in modern welfare states; public and private forms of
social security; solidarity and social security; citizenship; social rights
and gender stratification.
2. Social Security and Welfare Reform
options for policy change in social security; constraints; institutions,
interests and ideas; adaptations to changing socio-economic contexts;
domestic and non-domestic pressures for change; social democracy, the 'third
way' and social security reform; institution building and institutional
change.
3. Policy Domains and Impacts of Change
pension reforms and intergenerational redistribution; family support;
activation programmes; labour market exit and entry schemes; lone parents
and social security; social and gender divisions; poverty and social
exclusion; sickness and disability benefits; social security and social
stratification.
For more information and booking form, please contact:
Prof Jochen Clasen
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Jochen Clasen
Department of Applied Social Science
University of Stirling
Stirling FK9 4LA
Scotland
Tel: +44 1786 467706
Fax: +44 1786 467689
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