Chapter 3 /4 Flashcards
Guaranteed income supplement GIS
Provides extra money to OAS recipients who have little or no other income
EI
Social insurance type of income security program provides a level of income replacement to those workers who are temporarily out of work and meet strict eligibility conditions
Kelowna accord
2005 agreement between fed government and leaders of national aboriginal organizations
- improve education , employment , and living conditions for aboriginal peoples
Neoliberalism
Strongly favours free trade privitization minimal government intervention in business affairs reduced taxes and reduced public expenditure on social services
Old Age Security OAS
Basic pension to everyone over 65 who has lived in canada for a required length of time
-universal monetary benefit ,paid out by general revenue of the federal government
Universal child care benefit UCCB
1200 in 2006 claimed by parents for each child under 6
Conservative ideology ( anti-collectivist)
Freedom , individualism , and inevitability f inequality
- role of government including interference of the fre market economy should be limited and the role of private property and private enterprise should be paramount
Conservative / corporatist continental welfare states
- Germany Australia France
- income maintenance to uphold the status quo and maintain income difference between classes
- not concerned about eradicating poverty or creating more egalitarian society
Economic theory approaches
Keynesian economics, monetarism, and political economy
Gender based approaches to social welfare
Base son family and unpaid labour : the make bread winner regime and the individual earner carer regime
Individual earner carer regimes
Shared roles between men and women leading to equal rights
- both sexes have equal rights to social entitlements as earners and caregivers
- paid work in labour market and unpaid caregiving work have same benefit entitlements neutralizing gender differentiation with respect to social rights
- state central role in srvices and payments
Keynesians
Economic theory ,john Maynard Keynes intervention of governments in economies and the transformation of social policy
Liberal ideology (reluctant collectivist)
Pragmatism liberty individualism the inevitability of inequality and humanism
- you do what needs to be done
- competition and markets are tempered by a concern for people and the need for certain basic level of social security
Liberal Anglo-Saxon welfare regimes
Classical liberalism
-minimal government interference
Male bread winner regimes
Male privilege based on a division of labour between the sexes and resulting in unequal benefit entitlements .men seen as the family providers and thereby are entitled to benefits based on their labour force participation or their position as “ head of the household”
