Conflict and consensus in social policy development

Väisänen, Ilkka

doi:10.1111/j.1475-6765.1992.tb00315.x

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“…6 In the index of net benefit replacement rates shown in Figure 1, sickness cash benefits in the United States are coded zero. 7 These peculiarities of work-accident insurance are often related to the way in which social insurance entitlements impede the functioning of market principles, where worker's compensation serves broader political interests and is less politically contested than other insurance schemes (Väisänen, 1992;Carroll, 1999;Kangas, 2000). 8 The flat-rate unemployment allowance was replaced in 2001 by a basic unemployment benefit.…”

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Mechanisms of poverty alleviation: anti-poverty effects of non-means-tested and means-tested benefits in five welfare states

Nelson

2004

Journal of European Social Policy

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Substantial cross-national differences in poverty alleviation are well documented. But the extent to which different parts of the social transfer system account for this variation is still relatively unexamined. This paper analyses the redistributive effects of specific social policy institutions in a comparative perspective. The main question is to what extent non-means-tested entitlements and means-tested benefits reduce relative economic poverty in different institutional settings. It is shown that the structure of non-means-tested benefits is more important than that of meanstested benefits in explaining differences in poverty alleviation across countries. The paper also presents a new method for estimating the anti-poverty effects of separate parts of the social transfer system. This method decomposes the anti-poverty effects of a set of social transfers into independent and combined effects, which produces more valid results than prevalent methods used to assess the impact of a particular transfer on poverty. The countries included in this study are Canada, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. The empirical analyses are based on data from the Social Citizenship Indicators Programme (SCIP) and Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) describing the situation in the mid-1990s.

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Mechanisms of poverty alleviation: anti-poverty effects of non-means-tested and means-tested benefits in five welfare states

Nelson

2004

Journal of European Social Policy

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“…Work accident insurance was however missing in only one country, the USA. In contrast, unemployment insurance, generally the insurance programme to appear latest of those considered here (Carroll 1999;Väisänen 1992), was lacking in half of the countries, namely Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the USA. In 1950, however, old age pension, unemployment insurance and work accident insurance had been introduced in all of them, while sickness insurance was still not introduced in three of the countries, Canada, Finland and the USA.…”

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Modernization, globalization and the welfare state: a comparative analysis of old and new convergence of social insurance since 1930

Montanari

2001

British Journal of Sociology

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Convergence of policies and institutions across countries has been a recurrent theme within social sciences. 'Old' and 'new' convergence hypotheses have been associated with changing concepts and catchwords, such as modernization, logic of industrialism, post-industrialism, post-Fordism and globalization, but share some underlying theoretical perspectives. The purpose of this paper is to analyse tendencies towards convergence of social insurance systems in 18 OECD countries between 1930 and 1990, a period which has seen our sample of countries develop from predominantly agricultural societies to industrial or post-industrial market democracies. Data from the Social Citizenship Indicator Program (SCIP) are used to examine the development of institutional variables within the various national social insurance systems. Sub-samples of larger and smaller countries are examined separately, in order to test the open-economy hypothesis that smaller countries, being more exposed to international pressures than larger ones, could be expected to show higher degrees of social protection and also more convergence. Hypotheses on differentiated institutional barriers against pressures from the processes of transnationalization of the economy, as well as possible convergence effects of the supra-national policy making within the European Union, are discussed in the last section.

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Despite their obvious role in the social security systems of welfare states, work-injury programmes have not received much attention in the literature and their place in the debate on commodification and welfare state regimes is very limited (an exception is Väisänen, 1992). This article seeks to contribute to our knowledge of welfare states and welfare state regimes by undertaking a comparative analysis of work-injury programmes.

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Decommodification and beyond: A Comparative Analysis of Work-Injury Programmes

Gal

2004

Journal of European Social Policy

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This article examines work-injury programmes in different welfare states. The article’s goals are to provide a better understanding of these programmes and to further develop concepts for comparison between welfare states. Work-injury programmes are a component in the social security systems of most countries throughout the world. Nevertheless, cross-national comparative research into this field of social protection has been very limited. This article undertakes a quantitative comparison of work-injury programmes in 10 different welfare states, which represent various types of welfare regimes. Decommodification and self-development are the two key concepts that serve as a basis for the comparison and indexes measuring these two concepts are constructed. The findings of the study indicate that social-democratic welfare states, followed by Australia and Israel, have workinjury programmes with the greatest potential for decommodification and self-development. By contrast, work-injury programmes in liberal welfare states such as Britain and the United States have a low decommodifying and self-development potential.

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Conflict and consensus in social policy development

Cited by 31 publications

References 32 publications

Mechanisms of poverty alleviation: anti-poverty effects of non-means-tested and means-tested benefits in five welfare states

Mechanisms of poverty alleviation: anti-poverty effects of non-means-tested and means-tested benefits in five welfare states

Modernization, globalization and the welfare state: a comparative analysis of old and new convergence of social insurance since 1930

Decommodification and beyond: A Comparative Analysis of Work-Injury Programmes

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