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Rethinking The Old Age Income Security For All In Taiwan, Chih-Lung Huang
Rethinking The Old Age Income Security For All In Taiwan, Chih-Lung Huang
Chih-lung Huang
The National Pension Act of October 2008 completed a fragmentary framework for old age income security in Taiwan. Although coverage was universal, however, it was far from equal. Several different income security schemes were established, and the political process tended to lump together such contradictory institutional logics as insurance, assistance, and allowance. Advocates of an integrated universal insurance program see this piecemeal approach as a policy failure. Nonetheless, these advocates fail to take into account the fluid nature of structural social crises. This paper instead proposes a new, multi-layered division of citizen responsibility. This approach will allow citizens and the …
A Study Of Flexicurity Strategy In Netherlands And Denmark: The Institutional Life-Course Policy Approach, Chih-Lung Huang
A Study Of Flexicurity Strategy In Netherlands And Denmark: The Institutional Life-Course Policy Approach, Chih-Lung Huang
Chih-lung Huang
The flexicurity strategy in Netherlands and Denmark, i.e. flexible labour market and the reinforcement of social security institutions, successfully kept the unemployment rate from rising in the 1990s and has drawn attention from social policy scholars. Under the development of flexible labour market and destabilized employment pattern, the agenda of flexicurity strategy has been shifted to strengthen and facilitate the transitions in social security institutions. Drawing on institutional analysis on redistribution of time and income, this paper explores outcomes and development from recent flexicurity reforms. Results show that the working time in Netherlands and Denmark has been redistributed both vertically …