International Social Security Review

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Volume 71, issue 4, 2018

Introduction: Frontline delivery of welfare‐to‐work in different European contexts pp. 3-11

Rik van Berkel, Flemming Larsen and Dorte Caswell

A knowledge hierarchy in labour and welfare services? Evidence‐based and practice‐based knowledge in frontline service innovation pp. 13-32

Eric Breit, Knut Fossestøl and Eirin Pedersen

Co‐production and social innovation in street‐level employability services: Lessons from services with lone parents in Scotland pp. 33-50

Colin Lindsay, Sarah Pearson, Elaine Batty, Anne Marie Cullen and Will Eadson

Activating the most disadvantaged youth in Switzerland: Administratively too risky, politically too costly? pp. 51-70

Delia Pisoni

Organizational governance of activation policy: Transparency as an organizational ideal in a Swedish welfare agency pp. 71-89

Katarina Hollertz, Kerstin Jacobsson and Ida Seing

Does individualized employment support deliver what is promised? Findings from three European cities pp. 91-109

Deborah Rice, Vanesa Fuertes and Lara Monticelli

Gilbert, Neil. Never enough: Capitalism and the progressive spirit. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017.219 pp. ISBN 978‐01‐9936‐133‐5 pp. 111-114

Hedva Sarfati

Volume 71, issue 3, 2018

Foreword pp. 3-4

Hans‐Horst Konkolewsky

Introduction: Quantifying and reporting social security obligations pp. 5-12

Assia Billig, Simon Brimblecombe and Jean‐Claude Ménard

Measuring and reporting obligations of social security retirement systems: Actuarial perspectives pp. 13-25

Barbara D’Ambrogi‐Ola and Robert L. Brown

Discussing accrued‐to‐date liabilities pp. 27-48

Mitchell Wiener and Philip Stokoe

Measuring and reporting the actuarial obligations of the Canada Pension Plan pp. 49-71

Assia Billig and Jean‐Claude Ménard

Accounting for social benefits: The search for a past event pp. 73-80

Paul Mason

Towards a fair assessment of social security liabilities under pay‐as‐you‐go and partially funded schemes pp. 81-103

Anne Drouin, Pierre Plamondon and Cristina Lloret

Reporting the pension obligations of social security schemes: An EU perspective pp. 105-123

Costas Stavrakis

OECD. Preventing ageing unequally. Paris, Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development, 2017. 253 pp. ISBN 978‐92‐64‐27907‐0 pp. 125-127

Hedva Sarfati

Birnbaum, Simon; et al. The generational welfare contract: Justice, institutions and outcomes. Cheltenham, UK – Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.182 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐7847‐102‐7 pp. 129-131

Hedva Sarfati

Volume 71, issue 2, 2018

Introducing social protection in the Middle East and North Africa: Prospects for a new social contract? pp. 3-18

Markus Loewe and Rana Jawad

Universal social protection in Tunisia: Comparing the effectiveness and cost‐efficiency of food and energy subsidies with a proposed universal child allowance programme pp. 19-37

Mario Györi and Fabio Veras Soares

Can youth activation policies be central to social policies in MENA countries? pp. 39-56

Ghada Barsoum

What are the effects of cash transfers for refugees in the context of protracted displacement? Findings from Jordan pp. 57-77

Jessica Hagen‐Zanker, Martina Ulrichs and Rebecca Holmes

The rocky road to universal health coverage in Egypt: A political economy of health insurance reform from 2005–15 pp. 79-101

Sharif A. Ismail

The targeting effectiveness of Egypt’s Food Subsidy Programme: Reaching the poor? pp. 103-123

Walaa Talaat

OECD. A decade of social protection development in selected Asian countries, Paris, Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development, 2017. 76 pp. ISBN 978‐92‐64‐27225‐5 pp. 125-128

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Volume 71, issue 1, 2018

Linking taxation and social protection: Evidence on redistribution and poverty reduction in Ethiopia pp. 3-24

Kalle Hirvonen, Giulia Mascagni and Keetie Roelen

An actuarial balance sheet of the Swiss old‐age pension scheme pp. 25-49

Christoph Metzger

Towards an adequate and sustainable replacement rate in defined benefit pension systems: The case of Spain pp. 51-70

Juan José Alonso Fernández, José Enrique Devesa Carpio, Mar Devesa Carpio, Inmaculada Domínguez Fabián, Borja Encinas Goenechea and Robert Meneu Gaya

Analysis of the implementation of a social protection initiative to admit the poorest of the poor to mutual health funds in Burkina Faso pp. 71-91

Kadio Kadidiatou, Kafando Yamba, Ouédraogo Aboubacar and Valéry Ridde

Taylor‐Gooby, P., Leruth, B. and Chung, H. (eds). After austerity – Welfare state transformation in Europe after the Great Recession. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 2017. 229 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐879026‐6 pp. 93-96

Hedva Sarfati

Volume 70, issue 4, 2017

Foreword pp. 3-4

Hans‐Horst Konkolewsky

Introduction: Reflecting on the human right to social security pp. 5-12

Katja Hujo, Christina Behrendt and Roddy McKinnon

Ensuring inclusion and combatting discrimination in social protection programmes: The role of human rights standards pp. 13-43

Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona

Social protection and persons with disabilities pp. 45-65

Catalina Devandas Aguilar

Approaches to social protection for informal workers: Aligning productivist and human rights‐based approaches pp. 67-85

Laura Alfers, Francie Lund and Rachel Moussié

The rights‐based approach to care policies: Latin American experience pp. 87-103

Valeria Esquivel

The politics of rights‐based, transformative social policy in South and Southeast Asia pp. 105-126

Gabriele Koehler

Mukul G. Asher and Fukunari Kimura (eds). Strengthening social protection in East Asia (ERIA Studies in Development Economics). London, Routledge, 2015. 258 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐138‐81714‐2 pp. 127-129

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Volume 70, issue 3, 2017

Does trust increase willingness to pay higher taxes to help the needy? pp. 3-30

Nazim Habibov, Alex Cheung and Alena Auchynnikava

Global–regional interaction to extend access to social protection for migrant workers: Insights from ASEAN and MERCOSUR pp. 31-52

Elisa Fornalé

The ABCs of nonfinancial defined contribution (NDC) schemes pp. 53-77

Robert Holzmann

A “Swedish” actuarial balance for a notional defined contribution pension scheme with disability and minimum pension benefits pp. 79-104

Juan M. Pérez‐Salamero González, Manuel Ventura‐Marco and Carlos Vidal‐Meliá

Volume 70, issue 2, 2017

Electronic payment mechanisms in social security: Extending the reach of benefit and contribution transactions pp. 3-30

Paul Waller

Work/life balance policy in Germany: Promoting equal partnership in families pp. 31-55

Willem Adema, Chris Clarke, Valerie Frey, Angela Greulich, Hyunsook Kim, Pia Rattenhuber and Olivier Thévenon

The gender gap in pensions in Latin America pp. 57-85

Veronica Amarante, Maira Colacce and Pilar Manzi

Developing a compliance‐based approach to address error, evasion and fraud in social security systems pp. 87-107

Luana Goveia and Anahí Sosa

Pension reforms in EU11 countries: An evaluation of post‐socialist pension policies pp. 109-128

Stefan Domonkos and Andras Simonovits

Martin Heidenreich (ed.). Exploring inequality in Europe – Diverging income and employment opportunities in the crisis, Cheltenham, Elgar, 2016. 250 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐7847‐665‐7 pp. 129-133

Hedva Sarfati

Volume 70, issue 1, 2017

The social security number: A small device underpinning big systems pp. 3-17

Paul‐Anthelme Adèle

Survivors' pensions and their impact on the Brazilian labour market pp. 19-48

Rogerio Nagamine Costanzi, Graziela Ansiliero and Julimar Da Silva Bichara

Worldview: An introduction to social security in Georgia pp. 49-50

Roddy McKinnon

The evolution of the Georgian social protection system since independence: An unclear future despite recent expansion pp. 51-77

Dimitri Gugushvili

The challenge of pension reform in Georgia: Non‐contributory pensions and elderly poverty pp. 79-108

Tamila Nutsubidze and Khatuna Nutsubidze

OECD. Pensions at a glance 2015: OECD and G20 indicators. Paris, Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development. 2015. 374 pp. ISBN 978‐92‐64‐24063‐6 pp. 109-113

Hedva Sarfati