Social Security and the middle-class squeeze: fact and fiction about America's entitlement programs

2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (07) ◽  
pp. 43-4152-43-4152
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Middle Class Squeeze

Rising Profitability and the Middle Class Squeeze

2010 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward N. Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Middle Class Squeeze

scholarly journals ASPEK HUKUM KARTU INDONESIA SEHAT

Yuridika ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 499
Author(s):  
Zahry Vandawati ◽  
Hilda Yunita Sabrie ◽  
Widhayani Dian Pawestri ◽  
Rizki Amalia
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Financial Planning ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Security System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
The Government

Assurance is an important element in financial planning, but because of the low public awareness and myths that circulate in society around the insurance makes people reluctant to buy insurance products. Insurance is also known only for the upper middle class. On the other hand the realization of a prosperous society, one of which is assessed from the level of good public health. For that the government issued a compulsory social insurance in which the entire community on the mandate of the law shall be a participant of the program. Since 2011, the government has issued a regulation related to the National Social Security System and implemented through Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial (BPJS) in 2014. However, in the event it was due to political dynamics, the government under Jokowi leadership reissued Kartu Indonesia Sehat (KIS) A presidential regulation that functions the same as the existence of BPJS. This is what needs to be studied more deeply, because it is feared there will be overlapping roles and functions between BPJS and KIS them.

scholarly journals Middle-Income Groups in Kenya. Conflicting Realities Between Upward Mobility and Uncertainty

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter Neubert
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Democratic Development ◽  
The People ◽  
Empirical Social Science ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The One

For more than a decade scholars mostly from economy and development studies have described the rise of a newly emerging ‘middle class’ in the Global South including Africa. This has led to a ‘middle class narrative’ with the ‘middle class’ as the backbone of economic and democratic development. Especially with regard to the stability of the position of the people in the ‘middle’, empirical social science studies challenge the ‘middle class narrative’ and at their uncertainty and insecurity. This tension between upward mobility at the one hand uncertainty and instability at the other hand (the vulnerability-security nexus) and the options to cope with this challenge under the condition of limited provision of formal social security is the focus of this case study on Kenya. Instead of an analysis of inequality based on income, it is more helpful to start from the welfare mix and the role of social networks as main elements of provision of social security. Against this background, we identify different strategies of coping that go together with different sets of values and lifestyles, conceptualised as milieus, that are not determined by the socio-economic situation.

The End of Social Security as we know it – The Erosion of Status Protection in German Labour Market Policy

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
SILKE BOTHFELD ◽  
PEER ROSENTHAL
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Policy Regime ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Supporting Pillar

AbstractThe German labour market policy regime constitutes a reliable supporting pillar of the highly productive German employment system. Due to the most recent reforms, its core principle of status protection – a basic norm of the German middle-class-related model of social protection for the population of working age – is losing its formative character. Our analysis focuses on three separate policy principles that form the guiding logic of status centredness, namely the equivalence in security provision, the mechanisms that protect the socio-economic status in the event of unemployment, and the tripartite mode of funding. We argue that the ‘Hartz Reforms’ have reinforced the logic of the legal modifications since the mid-1990s, cumulating now in a shift away from the middle-class-oriented status-centred approach of social security provision.

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