Labour Market Challenges and the Role of Social Investment

Zimmermann, Katharina; Chung, Heejung; Heuer, Jan‐Ocko

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“…We argue that these positive effects could be particularly important for welfare chauvinist attitudes, as immigrants in North-Western Europe are often imagined as being non-integrated in society. Notably, low female workforce participation rates are often symbolic indicators of non-integration (Zimmerman et al, 2018). In order to strengthen integration, Denmark, for example, passed a law in 2018, which made 25 hours of public childcare attendance compulsory for children of immigrant parents with limited language skills living in so-called ghetto areas.…”

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Welfare chauvinism across benefits and services

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2021

Journal of European Social Policy

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The article theorises how covering social risks through cash transfers and in-kind services shapes public attitudes towards including/excluding immigrants from these programmes in Western European destination countries. The argument is that public attitudes are more restrictive of granting immigrants access to benefits than to services. This hypothesis is tested across ten social protection programmes using original survey data collected in Denmark, Germany and the UK in 2019. Across the three countries, representing respectively a social democratic, conservative and liberal welfare regime context, the article finds that the public does indeed have a preference for easier access for in-kind services than for cash benefits. The article also finds these results to be stable across programmes covering the same social risks; the examples are child benefits and childcare. The results are even stable across left-wing, mainstream and radical right-wing voters; with the partial exception of radical right-wing voters in the UK. Finally, the article finds only a moderate association between individual characteristics and attitudinal variation across cash benefits and in-kind services.

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Welfare chauvinism across benefits and services

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Larsen

2021

Journal of European Social Policy

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“…At the economic level, the competitive pressures from an increasingly globalized world exert pressure on the capacity of government to fund a high level of provision, and make decisions over priorities harder. At the same time, these changes, alongside the changes in the nature of the labor market, increase demand for education and life‐long learning (Zimmerman, Chung, & Heuer, ). At the social level, demographic shifts exacerbate spending demands from traditional health and social care services and pensions, and the increasing number of women in the labor market expands the demand for care (Chung, Filipovič Hrast, & Rakar, ).…”

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Political legitimacy and welfare state futures: Introduction

2018

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Welfare attitudes are pivotal in understanding the preferences and demands of citizens to help shape future policy reforms in welfare states. Accordingly, and due to the availability of large scale comparative survey data on attitudes, large numbers of studies of welfare attitudes have emerged during the past few decades. However, some limitations still exist in the field, such as the background assumptions informing the questionnaire design and top-down framing of issues, the population represented, and, lastly, limitations in teasing out the causal mechanisms of relationships, especially pertaining to that of policy reform. This regional issue brings together articles that address some of these issues and others in welfare attitude research to provide some guidance for future studies. This article first summarizes the existing studies on welfare attitudes to identify some of the key limitations, and introduces the five articles in this issue. It concludes with some suggestions for future studies in welfare attitudes.

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“…This linked employability, education, training, opportunity, and individual responsibility. The core idea is that it is low skills, poor labor market opportunities, and working conditions that generate unemployment and poverty, and that these issues can be tackled in the longer term through better training and a restructuring of education (see also Zimmerman, Chung, & Heuer, ). Better opportunities will instill a stronger sense of responsibility into individuals, and reduce welfare dependency, linking together a moral and a practical discourse.…”

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The contribution of deliberative forums to studying welfare state attitudes: A United Kingdom study

2018

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This article introduces democratic forums as a method of studying attitudes towards the welfare state, and sets out briefly its strengths and weaknesses in comparison with existing methods. This is done by reporting the findings of a 2015 two-day forum based in the United Kingdom, in which the future of the welfare state was discussed by a largely representative sample of participants. The results show that participants linked both moral and economic arguments to come to two major framings that could encompass the debates surrounding the future of welfare states. One focuses on the inefficiencies of the welfare state, which found that welfare resources were largely misdirected and unsustainable. The other focuses on the possibilities for improving it via social investment, for example providing individuals with better training and education opportunities. The democratic forum method is helpful in allowing researchers to investigate the conceptual framings people use when thinking about the welfare state, and to see how people link different concepts and justifications together to argue their position. We argue that such framing can be distinct from that used and understood by policymakers and academics, and those applied in the more commonly used large scale surveys.

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Labour Market Challenges and the Role of Social Investment

Cited by 4 publications

References 20 publications

Welfare chauvinism across benefits and services

Welfare chauvinism across benefits and services

Political legitimacy and welfare state futures: Introduction

The contribution of deliberative forums to studying welfare state attitudes: A United Kingdom study

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