Social Sustainability in Ageing Welfare States

Edited by Maria Vaalavuo, Chief Researcher, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland, Kenneth Nelson, Professor of Social Policy, University of Oxford, UK and Kati Kuitto, Senior Researcher, Finnish Centre for Pensions, Finland

• ContentsPreface and acknowledgements xList of abbreviations xiIntroduction to Social Sustainability in Ageing Welfare States xiiiMaria Vaalavuo, Kati Kuitto and Kenneth Nelson1 Well-being and its distribution across age groups: an integralpart of social sustainability in ageing welfare states 1Joonas Uotinen, Maria Vaalavuo and Frank Martela2 Positive-sum solutions in the generational welfare state 23Jan Helmdag and Kenneth Nelson3 Child poverty and pro-elderly bias in social protectionspending 46Yekaterina Chzhen4 The fall in absolute intergenerational mobility: consequencesfor subjective well-being 65Toni Juuti and Ohto Kanninen5 Intergenerational support and late-life well-being 85Lore Van Herreweghe and Wim Van Lancker6 Inequalities in social care as barriers to social sustainability:towards care justice 108Minna Zechner and Lena Näre7 How to make extending working lives in ageing welfare statessocially sustainable 127Kati Kuitto and Kun Lee8 Social sustainability and the activation of workers with healthproblems 153Thomas Leoni9 Immigration: a necessity for economic sustainability, achallenge for social sustainability? 173Maria Vaalavuo and Shadia Rask10 The political perspective of social sustainability: age-basedrepresentation 194Mari S. Helliesen and Yvette Peters11 Integrated sustainability: what is it and what are itsimplications for social care in ageing welfare states? 216Paul Bridgen and Paula Saikkonen

‘How can the welfare state, in the face of climate change, sustainably foster the wellbeing of current and future generations in ageing societies? These extraordinary contributions make it compellingly clear that the old material benchmark of economic growth cum fair distribution no longer suffices. Whether we like it or not, we must expand our outlook on inclusive growth and open up to intergenerational fairness and environmental sustainability from the perspective of human capabilities and subjective wellbeing.’