From Dependent to Independent Variable: A Critical Assessment of Operationalisations of ‘Welfare Stateness’ as Macro-Level Indicators in Multilevel Analyses

Kunißen, Katharina

doi:10.1007/s11205-018-1930-3

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“…Income replacement concerns an assessment of the degree to which benefits replace work income during periods of joblessness, and pertains to questions of 'what people get' from the welfare state. The validity of replacement rate indicators is continuously discussed in research (Danforth and Stephens, 2013;Ferrarini et al, 2013;Kunißen, 2019;Kvist et al, 2013;Scruggs, 2013;Wenzelburger et al, 2013).…”

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Towards a new consolidated framework for analysing benefit coverage

Nelson

Nieuwenhuis

2021

Journal of European Social Policy

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The conceptualisation and measurement of benefit coverage is muddled with considerable confusion. In this forum contribution, we propose a new consolidated framework for the analysis of benefit coverage. Three sequential steps in measurement are suggested, involving the calculation of coverage rates, eligibility rates and take-up rates in social protection. Each step of the analysis focuses on particular aspects of programme legislation and implementation, and together the new framework will substantially improve the possibilities of research to inform policymaking. We provide an empirical illustration of our approach based on Swedish data, and highlight how our new consolidated framework for analysing benefit coverage provides a reorientation of the research agenda on benefit coverage.

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Towards a new consolidated framework for analysing benefit coverage

Nelson

Nieuwenhuis

2021

Journal of European Social Policy

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“…Scholars have suggested many ways to operationalise the extent of public welfare provisionsometimes also referred to as welfare generosity or welfare effort-as a dependent or independent variable (Kunißen, 2018). Given that we are interested in how contexts with moregenerous benefit amounts influence individuals' job-search and ultimately their transition into a specific labour market segment, we use individual-level, survey-based benefit receipt information as a hitherto underused indicator of the extent of public welfare provision (De Deken & Clasen, 2011, 2013van Oorschot, 2013).…”

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Do generous unemployment benefits facilitate transition into more-secure labour market positions? Insights from a multilevel latent Markov model

Otto¹,

Lukac²

2021

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A large body of research suggests that generous welfare provisions for jobseekers create a disincentive to work. Other scholars argue that generous benefits can reduce unemployment by serving as a job-search subsidy. One caveat in this literature is that, when testing the two hypotheses, many scholars conceive of labour markets as homogeneous entities or they theoretically assume a certain insider/outsider divide. In this article, we claim that the employment effect of generous benefits varies between labour market segments. Analysing EU-SILC panel data of 27 European countries, we find that more-generous unemployment cash benefits enhance the transition from unemployment into more-secure work while discouraging transition into less-secure work in terms of temporal, economic and organisational security. Contrary to existing research, welfare generosity is measured by aggregated information on individual benefit receipt. Labour market segments are identified by latent class analysis and transitions between segments are estimated by Multilevel Latent Markov Models.

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“…We updated the original index scores with the most recently available data (2009) from the Multilinks Database (Keck and Saraceno 2012). The two indices utilize multiple indicators rather than a single indicator for each, which makes the results more trustworthy in differentiating between welfare states (Kunißen 2019). For the most part, policies rather than policy outcomes were included, since the latter are the result of many other factors combined and cannot be considered as direct indicators of the intention of the policymaker (Kurowska 2018).…”

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The Relationship between Familizing and Individualizing Policies and Mental Health in Parents in Europe

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Previous studies suggest the relative importance of the impact of childcare policies on mental health in parents. There have also been studies showing that welfare states have differing policy packages, consisting of a mixture of familizing and individualizing policy measures. This study builds on and extends this knowledge by carrying out a European comparison of the association between mental well health and family policies. We use Lohmann and Zagel’s familizing and individualizing policy indices to describe family policies. Our main interest is differences in mental health depending on the country, household, and individual-level characteristics. Therefore, we apply a multilevel model to 26 countries included in the 2013 wave of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey (N = 141,648). The analysis found that, in general, parents of children under 13 have better mental health than other adults. We found individualizing policy measures to be positively related to mental health in parents, while familizing policies had a negative relationship. No evidence was found for the combined presence of individualizing and familizing policies making a difference to mental health in parents. These results suggest that welfare states could help parents by promoting individualizing policies to make parenthood a less stressful experience.

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From Dependent to Independent Variable: A Critical Assessment of Operationalisations of ‘Welfare Stateness’ as Macro-Level Indicators in Multilevel Analyses

Cited by 17 publications

References 54 publications

Towards a new consolidated framework for analysing benefit coverage

Towards a new consolidated framework for analysing benefit coverage

Do generous unemployment benefits facilitate transition into more-secure labour market positions? Insights from a multilevel latent Markov model

The Relationship between Familizing and Individualizing Policies and Mental Health in Parents in Europe

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