Woran orientieren sich Einschätzungen zur Zumutbarkeit einer Beschäftigung? Befunde aus einer Vignettenbefragung

Osiander, Christopher; Senghaas, Monika

doi:10.1515/zsr-2020-0002

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“…While most of the studies use the amount of benefits as an outcome variable, Buss (2019) shows that respondents also vary their judgements regarding the harshness of sanctions and the conditions for benefit receipts according to the criteria identified by deservingness theory. Moreover, Osiander and Senghaas (2020) find that judgements of what is considered to be suitable employment depend, among other things, on the level of control that unemployed individuals have over their situation and on whether they have been unemployed in the past.…”

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Which Duration of Unemployment Benefits is Perceived as Being Just for Which Groups? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment in Germany

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Social Policy and Society

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Welfare states allocate and redistribute resources across different groups. For the social legitimacy of welfare states, public support of redistributive processes and outcomes is crucial. An important aspect in this context is the deservingness or non-deservingness of benefit recipients from the perspective of those who both financially contribute to the system and potentially benefit from it. We invited a random sample of the German labour force to participate in an online-survey. Using a factorial survey experiment, we described fictitious unemployed persons with different attributes and asked survey participants on the just maximum benefit duration for each particular case. Judgements regarding just benefit durations vary along the criteria of reciprocity, control, attitude and need: Respondents grant longer unemployment benefits to older jobseekers, as well as to jobseekers who became involuntarily unemployed, had stable employment careers, have to care for the elderly or are sole earners in the household.

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Which Duration of Unemployment Benefits is Perceived as Being Just for Which Groups? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment in Germany

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Stephan³

et al. 2022

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“…Eine besonders wichtige Rolle für die zugesprochene Höhe des Arbeitslosengeldes spielt dabei, ob Kinder im Haushalt vorhanden sind (Buss 2019 ; Hörstermann und Andreß 2015 ). Für die Arbeitslosenversicherung wurde gezeigt, dass Merkmale der Leistungsbeziehenden, wie beispielsweise das Alter, Urteile von Befragten über die Zumutbarkeit von Stellenangeboten beeinflussen (Osiander und Senghaas 2020 ). Unseres Wissens liegen bisher keine empirischen Befunde dazu vor, welche Bezugsdauern des Arbeitslosengeldes in Deutschland als angemessen angesehen werden.…”

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Längeres Arbeitslosengeld in der Krise? Covid-19 und die angemessene maximale Bezugsdauer

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ZusammenfassungDieser Beitrag untersucht die Frage, welche Bezugsdauern des Arbeitslosengeldes für welche Personengruppen als angemessen betrachtet werden und ob sich diese Einschätzungen während der Covid-19-Pandemie verändert haben. Längere Bezugsdauern können die Einkommenssituation der Betroffenen stabilisieren und die Suche nach einer qualifikationsadäquaten oder besser entlohnten Stelle unterstützen. Längere Zahlungen mindern aber auch den Druck zur Arbeitsaufnahme, wodurch die Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit zunimmt. Verändern Menschen Abwägungen zwischen individuellem Bedarf, Leistung und gesellschaftlicher Effizienz in der gesundheitlichen und ökonomischen Krise? Wir untersuchen mithilfe von Daten aus Onlinebefragungen im November 2019 und in der Krise im Mai 2020, welche Bezugsdauern (zumeist) Erwerbstätige für angemessen erachten. Dazu wurden den Teilnehmenden Vignetten mit Beschreibungen hypothetischer Arbeitsloser vorgelegt, deren Charakteristika zufällig variieren. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass dieselben Befragten vor und während der Krise sehr ähnliche Bezugsdauern für angemessen halten. Dabei beziehen sie bei der Bemessung der Bezugsdauer für Arbeitslose neben Beitragsprinzipien auch Kriterien der Bedürftigkeit mit ein. So beeinflussen Merkmale wie etwa das Alter der Arbeitslosen, ihr eigenes (Nicht‑)Verschulden, ihre Lebensleistungen oder die Länge ihrer Beitragszahlungen das Urteil, welche Dauer des Leistungsbezugs als angemessen angesehen wird.

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“…Moreover, within the group of unemployed—who are generally considered less deserving than the elderly—the perceived deservingness seems to increase with age. Several studies showed that the public would grant higher benefit levels or longer maximum benefit durations to older unemployed people than to younger ones and would link benefit receipt to fewer obligations than for the younger unemployed (Buss, 2019; Osiander et al, 2022; Osiander & Senghaas, 2020; Saunders, 2002). However, little is known so far about differentiations within the group of older unemployed persons.…”

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The perceived fair duration of unemployment benefits for older workers. The role of lifetime achievements in the labour market

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The welfare state regulates social policies and reallocates scarce resources. For the social legitimacy of the welfare state, it is important that the public supports the principles underlying this reallocation. This article examines the impact of different activities during the life course on public deservingness perceptions of older unemployed people. In a factorial survey experiment conducted among a random sample of individuals drawn from German administrative employment records, we examine the maximum duration of benefit receipt which is perceived as fair for older unemployed persons with different biographies. The results indicate strong public support for a nexus between previous contributions and benefit entitlements. Besides financial contributions to unemployment insurance, parenting and further training are considered to be ‘lifetime achievements’ which justify longer unemployment benefit receipt. We interpret these findings as an expression of a generalised form of reciprocity which guides perceptions of deservingness regarding older unemployed persons.

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Woran orientieren sich Einschätzungen zur Zumutbarkeit einer Beschäftigung? Befunde aus einer Vignettenbefragung

Cited by 5 publications

References 39 publications

Which Duration of Unemployment Benefits is Perceived as Being Just for Which Groups? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment in Germany

Which Duration of Unemployment Benefits is Perceived as Being Just for Which Groups? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment in Germany

Längeres Arbeitslosengeld in der Krise? Covid-19 und die angemessene maximale Bezugsdauer

The perceived fair duration of unemployment benefits for older workers. The role of lifetime achievements in the labour market

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