Protecting Livelihoods A Global Comparison of Social Law Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis

• Other Authors: Becker, Ulrich (Editor), Seemann, Anika (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Baden-Baden 2022
• Series: Studien aus dem Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik Band 77
• Subjects: LNT; access to social protection, Australia, Brazil, China, compensation, coronavirus, Czech Republic, Denmark England, job retention, Mexico, short time work benefit, supporting the economy, the self-employed, welfare state, social compensation, short-time work, vulnerability, self-employment, precarious work, social policy
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book offers a legal analysis of the social protection measures taken by welfare states across the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic. The twenty-one country studies in this book set out in detail how the social law measures adopted during the pandemic interacted with existing welfare state inst...