Activation and in-work poverty

Seikel, Daniel; Spannagel, Dorothee

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“…ALMPs represented a feasible solution to proactively help jobless people to re-enter the labour market (Eichhorst et al, 2008;Fossati, 2018;Seikel and Spannagel, 2018). This so-called 'activation turn' (Bonoli, 2010, p. 435) shifts away from providing passive welfare benefits in terms of cash transfers to unemployed people and focuses on instruments and policies aimed at their work (re-)insertion.…”

Section: The 'Activating' Welfare State: Between Enabling and Demanding Policiesmentioning

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“…Since the mid-1990s, European welfare policies in the domain of unemployment have undergone a major transformation, from mainly providing income for the jobless to actively stimulating them to (re-)enter the paid labour market (Taylor-Gooby, 2008). These activation policies are considered to be part of the welfare state retrenchment trend that started in the late 1970s in western democracies (Seikel and Spannagel, 2018). The concept of 'activation' generally refers to a mix of enabling policy measures as well as demanding elements, and is grounded in the idea of enhancing individuals' employability (Dingeldey, 2007;Eichhorst et al, 2008).…”

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“…The concept of 'activation' generally refers to a mix of enabling policy measures as well as demanding elements, and is grounded in the idea of enhancing individuals' employability (Dingeldey, 2007;Eichhorst et al, 2008). Over the last decades the demanding approach has achieved greater popularity among the European policy makers, who have increasingly implemented cuts of benefit levels and obligations for welfare recipients in order to receive their benefits (Dingeldey, 2007;Dwyer, 2004;Eichhorst et al, 2008;Knotz, 2018;Seikel and Spannagel, 2018). This rebalancing of rights and responsibilities for the benefit claimants (Giddens, 1998;Houtman, 1997) might be seen as a paradigm shift in the European welfare states.…”

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“First the Grub, then the Morals”? Disentangling the Self-Interest and Ideological Drivers of Attitudes Towards Demanding Activation Policies in Belgium

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Following the shift towards an activating role of the European welfare states, there is increasing scholarly interest in public support for demanding activation policies that impose obligations on welfare recipients. Borrowing the classical theoretical frameworks used in welfare attitudes research, we aim to disentangle the effect of self-interest and ideological beliefs on support for demanding activation. Using data from the Belgian National Election Study (2014), we find that support for demanding activation is strongly related to authoritarian dispositions, work ethic and rejection of egalitarianism. For the social-structural variables, we find direct as well as indirect (that is, mediated by the ideological dimensions) effects. Controlling for ideology, social categories that are potentially most affected by welfare obligations – i.e. those currently unemployed, with a previous experience of unemployment and low-income individuals – are more likely to oppose demanding policies, which can be interpreted as a self-interest effect. The effects of educational level, conversely, are primarily mediated and should be understood in terms of ideological preferences rather than self-interest. Our results indicate that, when analysing support for specific welfare policies, attention needs to be paid to the interplay between self-interest and ideological preferences.

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Section: The 'Activating' Welfare State: Between Enabling and Demanding Policiesmentioning

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“…The social protection system thus becomes integral to market making and a tool of hybrid forms of in-work and out-of-work modes of recommodification. Such patterns are also reflected in the rise in in-work poverty, particularly when associated with more demanding or coercive types of activation that push the unemployed to take up any job (Seikel and Spannagel, 2018). Again, available data since 2005 show that in-work poverty has been drifting up-wards in the EU, a pattern replicated in many, though not all, of the countries heavily impacted by the 2008 crisis ( Figure 6).…”

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Recommodification and the Welfare State in Re/Financialised Austerity Capitalism: Further Eroding Social Citizenship?

Dukelow

2020

Social Policy and Society

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This article reviews the recommodification of social policy in the context of financialised austerity capitalism and post-crisis welfare states. It sets out an understanding of recommodification as a multiple set of processes that involve the state in labour market-making, by shaping labour’s ‘saleability’. Under conditions of finance-dominated austerity capitalism, the article argues that recent dynamics of recommodification complicate the long established Piersonian observations. For Pierson, recommodification signifies how elements of the welfare state that shelter individuals from market pressures are dismantled and replaced with measures which buffer their labour market participation. This article examines ways in which recent policy trends in recommodification, whether by incentivising or coercive means, increase exposure to labour market risks and connect with the growing inequalities between capital and labour under post-crisis re/financialised austerity capitalism. This analysis is paired with a synoptic review of recent labour market trends and reforms across the European Union. As recommodification evolves, the insecurity it institutes raises fundamental questions about the underlying nature of social citizenship which are also addressed.

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“…For instance, they provide so called instruments (work first policies, employability, flexicurity, investing in people) that will allow individuals to find ways of adapting to changing economic and social conditions (Jepsen, Pascual, 2005). However, these activation policies that follows a 'workfare' approach will aggravate the problems, not reduce them (Seikel, 2017). Therefore, EU institutions -similar to their previous attempts -aim to bring together the individuals -rather than member states -on responding new economic changes and solving the social problems.…”

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The EU: Big on Big Things and Smaller on Smaller Things

Filiz

2017

Eur. j. soc. sci. educ. res.

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Welfare regime is composed of the social and economic policies that are adopted to protect and promote the economic and social well-being of its citizens. While neoliberal principles extend through globalization, welfare regimes have been suffering from this process since policies are developed with the emphasis on individual empowerment rather than collectively shared welfare. While spending a great deal of efforts not to lose its competitiveness, the European Union tries to create an alternative for the structure of its social policies. However, this attempt remains highly vulnerable due to the impact of capitalist economic system on development of EU social policy/model since the beginning of the EU integration process. This article analyzes the roots of underdeveloped social policy in EU history at three stages: explanation of underdevelopment of social Europe from several theoretical paradigms; examination of deep-rooted problems of European social policy within the dynamics of European integration; elaboration of EU modernization process; and clarification of this deficiency with the example of European Social Model deemed as a politically constructed project.

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Activation and in-work poverty

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“First the Grub, then the Morals”? Disentangling the Self-Interest and Ideological Drivers of Attitudes Towards Demanding Activation Policies in Belgium

“First the Grub, then the Morals”? Disentangling the Self-Interest and Ideological Drivers of Attitudes Towards Demanding Activation Policies in Belgium

Recommodification and the Welfare State in Re/Financialised Austerity Capitalism: Further Eroding Social Citizenship?

The EU: Big on Big Things and Smaller on Smaller Things

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