Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Denmark

Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg

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“…The Danish welfare state is often described as being distinct from European counterparts (Martinsen, 2020: 123). Unemployment insurance in Denmark is voluntary.…”

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“…Under EU Regulation (EC) 883/2004, unemployment benefits can be exported from Denmark to another country for three months. Like the Netherlands, Danish institutions do not provide an extension (De Wispelaere et al, 2022: 22; Martinsen, 2020: 128). Denmark demands monthly reports from the competent institutions in the countries to which workers export their Danish unemployment benefits (Beskæftigelsesministeriet, 2018: 11).…”

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Free movement and access to social security in the EU: The challenge of exporting unemployment benefits

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2023

European Journal of Social Security

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The freedom of movement of EU workers and access to national welfare state systems has become a controversial topic among policymakers in recent years. To understand this, the article analyses the positions of Western European states towards the proposal of the European Commission to reform the European social security coordination. The structural problems of this reform and the current Regulation (EC) 883/2004 can be seen in the discussion on the export of unemployment benefits. Although Western European states have similar insurance-based and comprehensive unemployment systems, they have conflicting views on this issue. The article presents a comparative case study of Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany. Data was generated via expert interviews and policy documents and analysed through institutionalist approaches. By tracing the debates on the export of unemployment benefits, the article makes a more general argument about the debate on the free movement of workers and social security in the EU. It explains that policymakers’ main concern is not only the financial burden on their welfare systems, but also that the current Regulation (EC) 883/2004 and the reform proposal are incompatible with national monitoring and enforcement systems, which are designed to work best when the worker is in the Member State of last employment. This incompatibility of the coordination rules with national rules creates opposition among policymakers to the access of EU workers to national welfare systems.

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“…The Danish welfare state is often described as being distinct from European counterparts (Martinsen, 2020: 123). Unemployment insurance in Denmark is voluntary.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Free movement and access to social security in the EU: The challenge of exporting unemployment benefits

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2023

European Journal of Social Security

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“…As previously highlighted, a plurality opposes this status quo. Countries like Denmark have recently sought to establish a strong differentiation of social rights according to nationality and length of presence on the territory (Martinsen, 2020). Each time, they have faced strong opposition from the European Union: directives from the early 2000s explicitly prevent discrimination against not only E.U.…”

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Immigration and Support for Redistribution: Lessons from Europe

Cavaillé,

Van der Straeten

2023

Journal of Economic Literature

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Research shows that opposition to policies that redistribute across racial divides has affected the development of the American welfare state. Are similar dynamics at play in Western Europe? For many scholars, the answer is yes. In contrast, we argue that researchers’ understanding of the political economy of redistribution in diversifying European countries is too incomplete to reach a conclusion on this issue. First, existing evidence is inconsistent with the assumption—ubiquitous in this line of research—of a universal distaste for sharing resources with people who are culturally, ethnically, and racially different. Second, important historical and institutional differences between the United States and Europe preclude any straightforward transposition of the American experience to the European case. We discuss what we see as the most promising lines of inquiry going forward. (JEL D64, H23, J15, J68, K37, Z13)

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“…The employment rates and labor market attachment of ethnic minority groups vis-à-vis the Danish majority have been an issue of consistent and even heated debate both in narrow policy discourse and broader public debate for at least a decade (Bredgaard and Thomsen, 2018). Moreover, there has been a constituent focus on the restriction of social benefits for immigrants, which have drawn international attention and criticism (Martinsen, 2020).…”

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Does Ethnicity Affect Allocation of Unemployment-Related Benefits to Job Center Clients? A Survey-Experimental Study of Representative Bureaucracy in Denmark

Esmark¹,

LIENGAARD

2022

J. Soc. Pol.

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The role of street-level bureaucracy in social policy has been taken up by two relatively distinct streams of research, based on Lipsky’s foundational work (2010). One group of literature has focused on the organizational working conditions, practices and coping mechanisms of street-level bureaucrats, their impact on the implementation of political programs and reforms, and the scope for discretion in the face of political pressures and institutional demands (Brodkin and Marston, 2013; Jessen and Tufte, 2014; Breit et al., 2016; Van Berkel et al., 2017; van Berkel, 2020). Starting from a focus on interaction with clients and the direct impact of discretionary decisions ‘on people’s lives’ (Lipsky, 2010, 8), a second group of studies has focused more on differences in allocation of benefits caused by perceived ‘deservingness’ and discrimination among street-level bureaucrats (Altreiter and Leibetseder, 2014; Terum et al., 2018; Jilke and Tummers, 2018).

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Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Denmark

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Free movement and access to social security in the EU: The challenge of exporting unemployment benefits

Free movement and access to social security in the EU: The challenge of exporting unemployment benefits

Immigration and Support for Redistribution: Lessons from Europe

Does Ethnicity Affect Allocation of Unemployment-Related Benefits to Job Center Clients? A Survey-Experimental Study of Representative Bureaucracy in Denmark

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