Disability benefits, welfare reform and employment policy  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Colin Lindsay and Donald Houston. 
 - New York :  Palgrave Macmillan,  2013. 
 - xv, 244 p. :  ill., maps. 
 - Work and welfare in Europe .
 - Work and welfare in Europe. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Fit for work? : representations and explanations of the disability benefits : crisis in the UK and beyond / Colin Lindsay and Donald Houston -- Disability benefits in the UK : an issue health or jobs? / Christina Beatty and Steve Fothergill -- A history of work-disability / John Macnicol -- Are incapacity benefit claimants beyond employment? : exploring issues of employability / Anne Green and Ian Shuttleworth -- Redefining "fit for work" : welfare reform and the introduction of employment support allowance / Helen Barnes and Paul Sissons -- A health problem? health and employability in the UK labour market / Jon Warren, Kayleigh Garthwaite and Clare Bambra -- The interaction of health, labour market conditions and long-term sickness benefit claims in a post-industrial city : a Glasgow case study / David Webster, Judith Brown, Ewan B. Macdonald and Ivan Turok -- The impact of the UK's disability benefit reforms / Christina Beatty, Steve Fothergill and Donald Houston -- Germany : attempting to activate the long-term unemployed with reduced working capacity / Martin Brussig and Matthias Knuth -- Incapacity benefits : change and continuity in the Swedish welfare state / Rickard Ulmestig -- From dutch disease to Dutch fitness? : two decades of disability crisis in the Netherlands / Rik van Berkel -- New Zealand's reform of sickness benefit and invalid's benefit / Neil Lunt and Daniel Horsfall -- Fit for purpose? : lessons for policies to address the disability benefits / Donald Houston and Colin Lindsay. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Disability insurance--Europe.<br/>People with disabilities--Employment--Europe.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Europe--Social policy.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD7105.25.E85  / D57 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>368.38/60941