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Title: | Welfare Cuts and Insecurity under the Rule of Austerity: the Impact of the Crisis on Portuguese Social Services | Authors: | Hespanha, Pedro Portugal, Sílvia |
Keywords: | Social services; Crisis; Austerity; Privatization; Citizens alternatives; Servicios sociales; Crisis; Austeridad; Privatización; Alternativas ciudadanas | Issue Date: | 2015 | Publisher: | Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law | Project: | MINECO-CSO2011-23252 | metadata.degois.publication.title: | Oñati Socio-Legal Series | metadata.degois.publication.volume: | 5 | metadata.degois.publication.issue: | 4 | metadata.degois.publication.location: | Gipuzkoa | Abstract: | This paper discusses the impact of austerity on social services in Portugal. The highly complex process of changes to public services launched by anti-crisis programmes needs to be analysed from different perspectives. On the supply side, the impacts are associated with reducing expenditure in social areas in different ways: reducing benefits by axing services, cutting staff costs, dismissing public sector workers and centralizing procurement; privatizing public management; blind cuts to the current expenses budget. On the demand side, the impacts are associated with reductions to the disposable income of families by cutting entitlements to healthcare, education, housing, social security and other benefits, cutting public sector pay, taxing pensions, and introducing or increasing restrictions on access to public services. Este artículo analiza el impacto de la austeridad en los servicios sociales de Portugal. El proceso de cambio en las políticas públicas tan complejo que se produjo como consecuencia de los programas anti-crisis requieren un análisis desde diferentes perspectivas. En el lado de la oferta, los impactos se asocian con la reducción del gasto social de diferentes formas: reduciendo beneficios por el recorte en servicios, recortando los costes de personal, despidiendo a trabajadores del sector público y centralizando las adquisiciones; privatizando la gestión pública; recortes ocultos en el presupuesto de gastos vigente. En el lado de la demanda, los impactos se asocian con la reducción de la renta de las familias mediante la reducción de derechos sanitarios, educación, vivienda, seguridad social y otros beneficios, recortando los salarios del sector público, gravando las pensiones e introduciendo o aumentando las restricciones en el acceso a servicios públicos. |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/41950 | ISSN: | 2079-5971 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | I&D CES - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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