European Union Constraints on Regional Social Policy Making: The Pioneering Case of Flemish Care Insurance and its General Consequences
In: Regional & federal studies, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 353-373
ISSN: 1743-9434
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In: Regional & federal studies, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 353-373
ISSN: 1743-9434
In: Journal of European social policy, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 208-210
ISSN: 1461-7269
In: Journal of European social policy, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 208-210
ISSN: 0958-9287
In: Regional and federal studies, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 353-374
ISSN: 1359-7566
In: Journal of European social policy, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 287-288
ISSN: 1461-7269
In: Journal of European social policy, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 287
ISSN: 0958-9287
In: Sociology compass, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 77-91
ISSN: 1751-9020
AbstractThe enlargement of the European Union (EU) has stirred discussion about the relevance of the traditional EU poverty indicator which measures poverty in relative and national terms. As a result of diverging living conditions of the poor in the old and new member states, some authors have argued in favour of alternative poverty measures. One line of thought is that the reference groups people use for evaluating their living standard have Europeanised and that a poverty measure should incorporate this evolution. Bowing on the rich literature on the conceptualisation of poverty and reference group theory, we argue that a distinction must be made between privately oriented reference groups and publicly oriented reference groups. Although research has mainly focused on the former type of reference groups, only the latter offers a norm to define the poverty threshold. We conclude with a research proposal to construct poverty lines driven by publicly oriented reference groups.
In: Tijdschrift voor Sociologie; Causaliteit, Band 27, Heft 4
ISSN: 0777-883X
In: West European politics, Band 29, Heft 5, S. 1034-1056
ISSN: 1743-9655
In: West European politics, Band 29, Heft 5, S. 1034-1056
ISSN: 0140-2382
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