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Worldwide problems related to inflation, growing economic interdependence, and shifting demographic structures are requiring that social welfare policies be scrutinized and reorganized. In response to these problems, the 1970s and 1980s have witnessed much legislative and market based redistributive activity in Western Europe and the United States, particularly in the areas of health, family maintenance, and pension provision. In all areas of social welfare, legislative and market-based strategies are reconsidering the “artificial separation between ‘public’ and ‘private’” (Rainwater & Rein, 1983, p. 112).
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O’Rand, A.M. (1988). Convergence, Institutionalization, and Bifurcation: Gender and the Pension Acquisition Process. In: Maddox, G.L., Lawton, M.P. (eds) Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-38443-5_5
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