Naslov
Crisis and Croatian welfare state: a new opportunity for welfare state retrenchment?

Autori
Dobrotić, Ivana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Challenges to European Welfare Systems

Urednik/ci
Schubert, Klaus ; Villota, Paloma de ; Kuhlmann, Johanna

Izdavač
Springer

Grad
New York (NY)

Godina
2016

Raspon stranica
301-324

ISBN
978-3-319-07679-9

Ključne riječi
Croatia, welfare state, crisis, pension system, labour market, health care, family policy, social assistance and eldercare

Sažetak
This chapter identifies the main challenges of Croatian welfare state related to changing socio- demographic trends, low employment and activity rates, high poverty rates and scarce public resources, as well as the reforms aimed to address them in the crisis period. Chapter starts with short overview of recent socio- demographic trends and the challenges they put in the front of Croatian welfare state. Thereafter, the severity of the crisis and main crisis-related reforms are addressed. The reforms in the main social policy areas (labour market, pensions, healthcare, family policy, social assistance and eldercare) are explored in more details afterwards, putting an additional focus on arguments behind the reforms and the way the welfare programs were (re)balanced and (re)orientated in the crisis period. The chapter focuses mainly on the developments between 2008 and 2013, however, in order to better capture ongoing trends and understand the reforms, when necessary a previous developments are briefly discussed.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Socijalne djelatnosti

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