Social Security, Happiness and Well-Being

Beschrijving

br Among the many explicit objectives of social security systems, there is the general aspiration to improve welfare, well-being or even the happiness of populations. Such grandiose objectives are rarely made explicit. With evidence that more economic growth does not necessarily equate with higher levels of well-being in society, there has developed an interest in the contribution to welfare that might be made by distribution and redistribution.brbr brbr Social security is the major vehicle for redistributing financial resources in society. This volume collects together essays which reflect both theoretically and empirically on the relationship between happiness and social security.brbr brbr This book addresses the following questionsbrbr Does welfare state effort enhance happinessbrbr Why might social security enhance happinessbrbr How might it be reformed to make more impact on well-beingbrbr How does income and health impact on well-beingbrbr How does income improve the well-being of widowsbrbr Does well-being influence employment probabilitiesbrbr How is the well-being of children related to other factors in societybrbr brbr Contributorsbrbr Signe Hald Andersen, Eric Bonsang, Jonathan Bradshaw, Hartley Dean, Angela Fontes, Karen C. Holden, Bill Jordan, Jeungkun Kim, Stijn Rottiers, Kolbeinn Stefansson.brbr br