摘要:

Drawing on a purposive sample of 25 interviews supplemented by secondary source material, this comparative study explores the options available to elderly immigrants in two quite similar countries to achieve social security in their old age. The focus is the culturally determined perspectives and practices of aging Italian‐born and Indian‐born immigrants in the context of public and private sector social welfare policies and provisions in Australia and Canada. Government transfers, occupational superannuation, tax‐deductible personal savings, housing, and formal and informal supports are discussed. What is important to the sense of social security of the older people and how well‐off or disadvantaged they seem to be are among the questions raised. The design affords an opportunity to test the complex combination of cross‐national and cross‐cultural comparison. In the certainty that the income deficiencies of today's elderly immigrants cannot be remedied easily or quickly enough to benefit those affected, intervention strategies can be aimed at expanding ethno‐specific community supports and quality residential care; such a direction is supported by assessment of service availability in relation to estimates of aging among particular foreign‐born immigrant groups. Suggestions are made for future research at the levels of theory

ISSN:1541-132X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1541-1338.1993.tb00515.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

In defining atypical work, this paper encompasses part‐time work, casual and temporary work, outwork/homework/telework and small self‐employment. All three national social security systems are very selective and inflexible in protecting these forms of work as they are modeled according to the dominant pattern of full‐time, continuous employment. As atypical work is women's work, it is also regulated by social security benefits for the other part of women's work—domestic work. Family benefits have a very ambiguous function. They provide some means to escape from private dependency and they sometimes even recognize domestic work as insured normal labor market work. On the other side, they were also intended to subsidize the low wages of marginal work and allow only for a small amount of paid work, especially atypical work, while on benefit. Thus, they also structured and sustained the segmentation of labor market work and domest

ISSN:1541-132X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1541-1338.1993.tb00516.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This paper examines the national provident funds (NPFs) that operate in 23 developing countries which seek to provide their members with basic social security protection by means of compulsory savings (see Appendix). It explores how the juxtaposition of economic, social and social security objectives has made NPFs generally resilient to fundamental change and has, in some instances, resulted in the evolution of a social security hybrid—neither a pure compulsory savings scheme nor a social insurance syste

ISSN:1541-132X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1541-1338.1993.tb00517.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:1541-132X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1541-1338.1993.tb00518.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY