A typology of activation incentives

Dinan, Shannon

doi:10.1111/spol.12456

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“…Providing lower social benefits is expected to reinforce incentives to increase job search intensity (Bonoli, 2010; see also Torfing, 1999;Dinan, 2019). Thus, the given amount of benefits is expected to play an important role in explaining the effects of different institutional states for reservation wages.…”

Section: Mechanisms Of Activationmentioning

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Social policy and labor supply: The impact of activating labor market institutions on reservation wages

Fuchs¹,

Prechsl²,

Wolbring³

2020

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Activation as a social policy that facilitates transitions into the labor market continues to influence modern welfare states until today. Taking the case of Germany, we study the relationship between embeddedness of benefit recipients in activating labor market institutions and individual labor supply. Using panel data, we estimate the effects of transitions between key institutional states with different degrees of activation on reservation wages. We show that reservation wages are sensitive to activation: The transition from gainful employment into unemployment benefit receipt leads to an average 3.2 percent decrease in reservation wages. The transition from gainful employment into welfare benefit receipt - an institutional state with far more rigorous activation - leads to a stronger decrease of 4.9 percent. Mediation analyses show that the income associated with different institutional states is the predominant mechanism that drives the effect on reservation wages. However, subjective social status also partly mediates the effect.

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Section: Mechanisms Of Activationmentioning

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Social policy and labor supply: The impact of activating labor market institutions on reservation wages

Fuchs¹,

Prechsl²,

Wolbring³

2020

Preprint

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“…Childcare belongs to family policy and is beyond the scope of our investigation, which is concerned specifically with active labour market policies, the set of instruments used to address and reduce unemployment (Nelson 2013). These labour market policies include various types of incentives for workers and employers, job subsidies, training programs, and employment services (Dinan 2019).…”

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“…Some of the individual programs have been modified or removed over time, but their general orientation did not change. Table 2 presents a classification of FDMT by activation incentives, according to the lever for labour‐market integration and enforcement mechanisms (Dinan 2019), to better identify spending patterns. Figures 6 and 7 present 2008‐2018 participant levels and expenditures, by activation type.…”

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Quebec’s resilient redistribution model: Activation policies in the 2010s

Dinan¹,

Noël²

2020

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Compared to the rest of Canada, Quebec has an ambitious and redistributive social model, which includes an elaborate set of Active Labour Market Policies (ALMP), with higher expenditures as a percentage of GDP, an encompassing coverage, and collaborative, multipartite governance arrangements. Since the 2008 recession, however, most OECD countries have implemented retrenchment measures, market enforcement, and individual action plans to their ALMP. Using provincial, federal, and OECD data and reports, this article maps the recent evolution of Quebec's ALMP in light of these trends. Quebec's model appears largely resilient, despite declining expenditures and modest concessions to conditionality in social assistance. Sommaire : Comparativement au reste du Canada, le Québec est doté d'un modèle social de redistribution ambitieux, qui comprend un ensemble détaillé de politiques actives du marché du travail (PAMT), offrant des dépenses accrues en pourcentage du PIB, une couverture généreuse, et des accords de gouvernance en partenariat multipartites. Depuis la récession économique de 2008, cependant, la plupart des pays de l'OCDE ont adopté des mesures d'austérité, renforcé le rôle du marché, et introduit des plans d'action individualisés dans leurs PAMT. À partir de données et de rapports des provinces, du gouvernement fédéral et de l'OCDE, cet article analyse l'évolution récente des PAMT du Québec à la lumière de ces tendances. Le modèle québécois semble se maintenir, malgré la réduction des dépenses et quelques concessions réintroduisant des conditions pour l'accès à l'aide sociale. Quebec has often been described as having a different social and welfare model compared to the rest of Canada, one that is more ambitious, costly, and redistributive. Quebec has encompassing and generous family policies (Godbout and St-Cerny 2008), an elaborate and multipartite framework for labour market policies (Wood 2018: 183), a relatively effective poverty reduction strategy (van den Berg et al. 2017), and a uniquely developed social economy sector (Arsenault 2018). The difference between Quebec's and

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“…A vast amount of literature has studied activation policies' objectives, mutual-obligation philosophy and implementation (for an overview see : Eichhorst, Grienberger-Zingerle, and Konle-Seidl 2008;Fromm and Cornelia 2008;Dinan 2019). Evidence on the effectiveness of those policies shows mixed results, with limited impact especially for the already long-term unemployed (Konle-Seidl and Eichhorst 2008;McGuinness, O'Connell, and Kelly 2014).…”

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What gets them going? The effects of activation policies on personal change processes of unemployed youth

Niyadurupola

Esposito

2021

Journal of Education and Work

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Activation policies are widely adopted to encourage labour market participation of unemployed youth, and yet they are poorly understood and monitored with regard to the causal mechanisms unfolding through their implementation. Activation schemes are often based on the carrot-andstick logic informed by microeconomic job search theory, but activation occurs through processes which are far more complex and comprises elements of career identity and capability development, among others. This paper is the first to provide an in-depth exploration of the processes of attitudinal and behavioural change experienced by unemployed youth over the course of their participation in different activation programmes. Seven phases of change emerged from the analysis, namely vocational availability, self-testing, self-knowledge, self-confidence, goal-orientation, vocational activity and perseverance. For each of these phases, we identify drivers of change from both within and outside the intervention sphere, and discuss them in their implications for research and practice.

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A typology of activation incentives

Cited by 20 publications

References 41 publications

Social policy and labor supply: The impact of activating labor market institutions on reservation wages

Social policy and labor supply: The impact of activating labor market institutions on reservation wages

Quebec’s resilient redistribution model: Activation policies in the 2010s

What gets them going? The effects of activation policies on personal change processes of unemployed youth

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