Activating life course policy: Social assistance and health insurance in Germany

Uwe Schwarze, Renate Niedermeier and Petra Buhr

No 06/2003, Working papers of the ZeS from University of Bremen, Centre for Social Policy Research (ZeS)

Abstract: This paper builds on results from the Special Collaborative Centre 186 'Status Passages and Risks in the Life Course' at the University of Bremen and deals with changes in the principles of regulation and intervention within two different institutions of the welfare state: Social Assistance and Health Insurance. The empirical findings are based on expert interviews conducted at two points in time in the 1990s. We find that the traditionally differing structural principles of both systems have been supplemented with new principles of regulation and strategies of intervention in the observation period. Examples are a loss in importance of passive monetary transfers and a new emphasis on personal aid as well as orientation on 'time and action'. Thus Social Assistance and Health Insurance obviously converge towards a new model of intervention which we can call 'activating life course policy'.

Date: 2003
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