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What works? Researching participants’ experiences of a social policy RCT through qualitative interviews Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll, Laura Tarkiainen
Increasingly, evidence-based policymaking, in the form of randomized control trials (RCTs) in particular, are advocated as a means for studying the effects of planned social policy measures. Additionally, a Finnish basic income experiment was conducted in 2017–2018 as an RCT as a means of exploring alternative policy solutions, which gained widespread national and international political, media and
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Cross-class solidarity in times of crisis: the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on support for redistribution Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Simone Tonelli, Eloisa Harris, Franziska Deeg
This study investigates how the economic crisis associated with the COVID-19 pandemic impacted support for social assistance in Germany. We formulate our expectations drawing from the classical political economy literature on self-interest and the burgeoning research on the role of solidarity. On the one hand, we hypothesize that only low-income individuals impacted economically by COVID-19, who can
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COVID-19 hits care homes: A cross-national study of mortality rates Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Margarita Estévez-Abe, Costanzo Ranci
The COVID-19 outbreak, which most severely impacted older citizens, served as a stress test for residential eldercare facilities. The mortality rates of care home residents varied widely across countries in 2020 before vaccinations became available. Why have some countries been better (or less) able to protect their older citizens in care homes? This article examines the role of specific characteristics
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Targeted transfers, a left-wing policy? The impact of left-wing governments and corporatism on transfers to low-income families (1982–2019) Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Dominic Durocher
In the last decades, several countries introduced new income-tested child benefits and targeted in-work tax credits to boost the income of low-income families. Inspired by the power resource theory, I postulate that left-wing governments tend to increase benefits to low-income families because their ideology favours redistribution and to consolidate the vote of low-income families, but that both right-
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Help or harm? Examining the effects of active labour market programmes on young adults’ employment quality and the role of social origin Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Veronika J Knize, Markus Wolf
Active labour market programmes (ALMPs) should help young adults who collect welfare benefits ‘get back on track’. Despite the recent proliferation of research on ALMPs, only scant attention has been paid to their employment quality effects. Aiming to fill this gap, this article evaluates the long-term effects of German ALMPs on young adults’ employment quality. We measure employment quality with two
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The politics of subnational social policy: Social consumption versus social investment in Austria Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Carmen Walenta-Bergmann, Tobias Wiß
Country comparisons, often suffering from unobserved heterogeneity and obscuring subnational variation, dominate the social policy literature. However, the subnational level is better suited to reduce the omitted variable bias. This article distinguishes between social consumption and social investment policies and investigates their determinants at the subnational level. Following the literature across
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Does the (socio-political) socialization context matter for paternal involvement? Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Thomas Eichhorn, Claudia Zerle-Elsäßer
Previous literature on paternal involvement emphasizes the influence of fathers’ socialization contexts, considering either welfare policies (Hipp and Leuze, 2015) or experiences with their own fathers (Brown et al., 2018; Parke, 1995). In this study, we combine those two branches of research and examine how fathers’ and their fathers’ (grandfathers’) socialization experiences (parental leave regulations
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The positive relationship between female employment and fertility rates: The role of family benefits expenditure and gender-role ideologies Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Daniel Dinale
This article interrogates the impacts of different types of family benefits expenditures on the positive relationship between female employment and fertility rates in developed welfare states. It does this by theorizing how these family benefits align with welfare state regimes’ preferences for different normative gender-role ideologies. Rather than treating family benefits as a monolith, this article
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Defamilization? Not for everyone. Unequal labour-market participation among informal caregivers in Europe Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Miriam Laschinski
Growing care dependencies among the elderly due to population ageing in Europe challenge the labour-market participation of informal caregivers. While familiarized care regimes incentivize family caregiving by providing many cash-for-care-benefits, resulting in reduced labour supply, defamiliarized care regimes allocate more public spending to care infrastructure, alleviating the care responsibilities
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Beyond trade-offs: Exploring the changing interplay of public and private welfare provision in old age and health in the historical long-run Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Alexander Horn, Sebastian Kohl
Modern welfare states compete with private providers of welfare in offering economic security. This is most evident in the case of pensions competing with life insurance and private pensions as well as of public health insurance competing with private insurance providers. The common view of this public–private relationship is one of a trade-off: longitudinally, political scientists describe how retrenchment
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Mapping the distinct patterns of educational and social stratification in European countries Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Fiona Gogescu
This article analyses how educational and initial vocational training systems in Europe vary regarding the way in which they structure educational routes for pupils of different academic ability. The study uses cluster analysis to explore the degree of similarity between 25 European countries, including variables related to: stratification within compulsory education; vocational orientation; links
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Towards a Re-insurance union? Support to mitigate unemployment risks in an emergency as an EU response to preserve jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Francesco Corti, Robin Huguenot-Noël
Is the EU evolving towards a Re-Insurance Union? The creation of SURE, an EU financial tool to support national short-time work (STW) schemes in the midst of the pandemic, has revitalized debates on fiscal stabilizers as a means to counter economic downturns and protect jobs within the European Union. Drawing from document analyses and 17 interviews with EU and national stakeholders, this study explores
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A farewell to welfare? Conceptualising welfare populism, welfare chauvinism and welfare Euroscepticism Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Gianna M Eick, Benjamin Leruth
This conceptual article and special issue introduction argues for the importance of studying three policy paradigms surrounding welfare policy opposition. The first is welfare populism, the opposition to welfare policies that do not benefit the ‘common people’. The second is welfare chauvinism, the opposition to welfare policies for non-natives within a nation-state. The third is welfare Euroscepticism
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Building a wall around the welfare state, or around the country? Preferences for immigrant welfare inclusion and immigration policy openness in Europe Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Alexandre Afonso, Samir Mustafa Negash
Existing research on welfare chauvinism, which involves preferences about the inclusion or exclusion of immigrants in welfare programmes, often overlooks individual preferences regarding immigration policy openness (the number of immigrants allowed into a country). This article posits that these two dimensions should be considered together. The reason is that the implications of including or excluding
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A step too far: Employer perspectives on in-work conditionality Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Katy Jones, Calum Carson
This chapter explores employer perspectives on the extension of behavioural conditionality to working social security claimants (‘in-work conditionality’). As policymakers across Europe and other developed nations have pursued increasingly interventionist approaches to activating the unemployed through conditional welfare policies, the UK has gone a significant and ‘unprecedented’ step further by requiring
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Welfare Euroscepticism and socioeconomic status Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Gianna M Eick
While the European Union (EU) increasingly strengthens its social integration, opposition towards this process can also be observed, here defined as ‘welfare Euroscepticism’. To better understand this newly defined policy paradigm, this article aims to explain longstanding cleavages in both social policy and EU research: socioeconomic status (SES) divides. Contrary to the literature on public support
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Unravelling the relationship between employment, social transfers and income poverty: Policy and measurement Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 András Gábos, Barbara Binder, Réka Branyiczki, István György Tóth
Despite the rise in employment, consistently high EU-average poverty rates continue to generate debates about the factors that explain the level and changes in the relative poverty rate, both within and across countries. Assuming a strong negative correlation between poverty and employment, the article investigates the role of four mechanisms responsible for this blurred relationship. Using decomposition
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Shifts at the margin of European welfare states: How important is food aid in complementing inadequate minimum incomes? Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Karen Hermans, Bea Cantillon, Sarah Marchal
In recent decades, disappointing poverty trends and welfare state limitations in many European countries – including constraints on minimum income benefits – have paved the way for a larger role of the third sector. An interesting but controversial form of third-sector in-kind support is food aid provision. In Europe, food aid is, so far, a non-rights-based practice displaying worrisome discretionary
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Disciplinary welfare and the punitive turn in criminal justice: Parallel trends or communicating vessels? Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Peter Starke, Georg Wenzelburger
When it comes to the relationship between social policy and penal policy, existing scholarship often focuses on the penal–welfare tradeoff, according to which countries with large and generous welfare states tend to have lower incarceration rates and less harsh treatment of offenders. We know much less about the relationship between the punitive turn in criminal justice and the use of discipline within
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Treating nations like people: How responsibility attributions shape citizens’ fiscal solidarity with other EU countries Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Patrick Clasen
Scholars have so far not paid sufficient attention to the role of attributed responsibility of countries when they need to explain variations of European fiscal solidarity. Do citizens consider the responsibility of other countries when expressing solidarity with them? This article advances the argument that individuals apply similar heuristics to countries as to other individuals. When expressing
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Partisan preference divides regarding welfare chauvinism and welfare populism – Appealing only to radical right voters or beyond? Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Matthias Enggist, Silja Häusermann
Welfare chauvinism and welfare populism as characteristic features of radical right parties’ welfare stances have become challenges to the welfare state. However, in order to understand how these claims may indeed affect welfare politics, it is essential to study whether welfare chauvinism and welfare populism attract voters beyond the radical right, especially among the mainstream right or even parts
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Agency, institutions, and welfare chauvinism: Tracing the exclusion of European Union migrant citizens from social assistance in Germany Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Dominic Afscharian, Cecilia Bruzelius, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
What explains welfare chauvinistic policy reform, that is, targeted exclusion of non-citizens from welfare? Existing research suggest that contextual factors like far-right party success, perceived immigration pressures, party ideologies and institutions could spur such reform, but the processes behind reforms remain understudied. This article draws on public policy literature to call attention the
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Is part-time employment a temporary ‘stepping stone’ or a lasting ‘mommy track’? Legislation and mothers’ transition to full-time employment in Germany Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Uta Brehm, Nadja Milewski
Research on reconciling family and employment debates if maternal part-time employment works as ‘stepping stone’ to full-time employment or as gateway to a long-term ‘mommy track’. We analyse how mothers’ transition from part-time to full-time employment is shaped by changing reconciliation legislations and how this is moderated by reconciliation-relevant factors like individual behaviours and macro
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Categorizing discourses of welfare chauvinism: Temporal, selective, functional and cultural dimensions Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Benjamin Leruth, Peter Taylor-Gooby, Adrienn Győry
Welfare chauvinism, that is, the exclusion of non-citizens who live permanently within a state from social benefits and services, has become a mainstream form of welfare policy opposition advocated by some political parties and members of the public. While existing studies have successfully cast a light on the roots and scope of these policies, welfare chauvinism effectively encompasses a wide range
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The ethnic penalty in welfare deservingness: A factorial survey experiment on welfare chauvinism in pension attitudes in Germany Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Elias Naumann, Marvin M Brinkmann, Katja Möhring
This study investigates whether pensioners with a foreign ethnic background are perceived as less deserving to receive a pension than are native pensioners. It focuses on Germany as an example with a strongly achievement-oriented social insurance system which closely links benefits to previous contributions. Hence, the system prevents a citizen from receiving benefits without having contributed. Our
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Varying effects of public pensions: Pension spending and old-age employment under different pension regimes Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Kun Lee
Socioeconomic consequences of pension reforms have often been discussed without careful consideration of institutional contexts, despite the fact that institutional designs of public pensions differ substantially across countries. This study argues that the outcomes of pension reforms vary depending on the institutional structure of public pensions, by showing that the associations between public pension
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Welfare chauvinism in times of crises: The impact of the radical right political discourse Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Rosan Haenraets, Femke Roosma
This article examines the impact of the radical right political discourse on welfare chauvinistic attitudes over time. Using data from two rounds of the European Social Survey (2008/09 and 2016/17), the Comparative Political Data Set and the Manifesto Project for 17 European countries, our analyses show that radical right mobilization and the salience of political rhetoric framed on cultural diversity
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Invisible social Europe? Linking citizens' awareness of European cohesion funds, individual power resources, and support for the EU. Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Marcello Natili,Stefano Ronchi,Francesco Visconti
In the twentieth century national social policies stabilized the European state systems, favouring domestic concordance and citizens' support to the nation-building process. Welfare institutions have historically served this key political function also in federal systems, where social citizenship has been used as a tool to foster unity. In contrast, even though the EU devotes a consistent part of its
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Priming or learning? The influence of pension policy information on individual preferences in Germany, Spain and the United States Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Juan J Fernández, Gema García-Albacete, Antonio M Jaime-Castillo, Jonas Radl
A promising approach to pension policy preferences focuses on the influence of policy related information. We advance this research programme by examining the impact of information about future pen...
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Explaining willingness to pay taxes: The role of income, education, ideology Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Olivier Jacques
While the drivers of preferences about tax progressivity and redistribution are well identified, the study of willingness to pay taxes remains underdeveloped. This article uses the 2016 ISSP on the...
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Psychological barriers to take-up of healthcare and child support benefits in the Netherlands Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Olaf Simonse, Marike Knoef, Lotte F Van Dillen, Wilco W Van Dijk, Eric Van Dijk
We empirically test an integral model for healthcare and child support benefits take-up using a probability sample of the Dutch population (N = 905). To examine how different psychological factors,...
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Does it pay to say ‘I do’? Marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Michael Christl, Silvia De Poli, Viginta Ivaškaitė-Tamošiūnė
We analyse the different fiscal treatment of married and cohabiting couples across all EU Member States using microsimulation methods. Our article highlights important differences across EU countri...
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Perceptions and realities: Explaining welfare chauvinism in Europe Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 David Andreas Bell, Marko Valenta, Zan Strabac
Welfare chauvinism is largely understood as the view that the benefits of the welfare state should primarily be given to the native population, and not shared with the immigrant populations. Using ...
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Delegating migration control to local welfare actors: Reporting obligations in practice Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Cecilia Bruzelius, Nora Ratzmann, Lea Reiss
Most research on the social policy–migration control link focuses on indirect control, that is, denying access to welfare. This article instead draws attention to how welfare institutions are made ...
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Rent price control – yet another great equalizer of economic inequalities? Evidence from a century of historical data Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Konstantin A Kholodilin, Sebastian Kohl
The long-run U-shaped patterns of economic inequality are standardly explained by basic economic trends (Piketty’s r > g), taxation policies or ‘great levellers’ such as catastrophes. This article ...
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Gendered employment patterns: Women’s labour market outcomes across 24 countries Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Helen Kowalewska
An accepted framework for ‘gendering’ the analysis of welfare regimes compares countries by degrees of ‘defamilialization’ or how far their family policies support or undermine women’s employment p...
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Gendered labour market patterns across Europe: Does family policy mitigate feminization of outsiders? Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Hyojin Seo
Studies have shown positive impact of family policies on women’s labour market participation over the last decades. How, then, does it influence the types of jobs women obtain when they (re-)enter ...
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An illiberal welfare state emerging? Welfare efforts and trajectories under democratic backsliding in Hungary and Turkey Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Dorottya Szikra, Kerem Gabriel Öktem
Mainstream western-centric welfare state research has mostly confined itself to studying social policy in consolidated democracies and tends to assume a synergy between democracy and the welfare st...
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Can a federal minimum wage alleviate poverty and income inequality? Ex-post and simulation evidence from Germany Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Teresa Backhaus, Kai-Uwe Müller
Minimum wages are increasingly discussed as an instrument against (in-work) poverty and income inequality in Europe. Just recently the German government opted for a substantial ad-hoc increase of t...
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Attitudes toward healthcare performance in Europe, 2002–2017: How absolute and relative measures can reveal different patterns Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Iris Moolla, Paul Lambert
Citizens’ attitudes towards their national healthcare are important indicators of satisfaction and of political perspectives. In this article we summarise individual and national level patterns in ...
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Weathering the storm together: Does unemployment insurance help couples avoid divorce? Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Dorian Kessler, Debra Hevenstone, Leen Vandecasteele, Samin Sepahniya
This study examines whether unemployment insurance benefit generosity impacts divorce, drawing on full population administrative data and a Swiss reform that reduced unemployment insurance maximum ...
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Comparative mainstreaming? Mapping the uses of the comparative method in social policy, sociology and political science since the 1970s Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Emanuele Ferragina, Christopher Deeming
This article maps the development and uses of the comparative method in academic research since the 1970s. It is based on an original database that we constructed for our review of 12,483 articles ...
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What distinguishes radical right welfare chauvinism? Excluding different migrant groups from the welfare state Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Juliana Chueri
Literature posits that mainstream right-wing parties have adopted restrictive positions on immigrants’ entitlements to social rights to avoid losing votes to populist radical right-wing parties (PR...
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Nice work if you can get it: Labour market pathways of Belgian service voucher workers Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Dries Lens, Ive Marx, Jarmila Oslejová, Ninke Mussche
Seen as an alternative to precarious, informal work or no job at all, several European countries have started to use tax money to boost the demand for domestic services. This article asks whether t...
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Explaining public support for demanding activation of the unemployed: The role of subjective risk perceptions and stereotypes about the unemployed Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Federica Rossetti, Bart Meuleman, Sharon Baute
In recent decades, European welfare states have adopted demanding active labour market policies (ALMPs), aimed at increasing labour market participation through imposing stricter work-related oblig...
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The welfare state and support for environmental action in Europe Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Anne-Marie Parth, Tim Vlandas
How do welfare state policies affect the political support for environmental action of economically vulnerable social groups? Two competing hypotheses can be delineated. On the one hand, a synergy ...
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Needs or obligations? The influence of childcare infrastructure and support norms on grandparents’ labour market participation Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Ariane Bertogg
This study investigates how institutional and normative characteristics affect grandparents’ labour market participation. Previous studies indicate that providing regular grandchild care reduces la...
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Indicators of familialism and defamilialization in long-term care: A theoretical overview and introduction of macro-level indicators Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Ellen Verbakel, Karen Glaser, Yasmina Amzour, Martina Brandt, Marjolein Broese van Groenou
Many countries have been working on revising their long-term care (LTC) policies to meet the increasing demand for care. Generally, little attention is paid to the potential (unintended) consequenc...
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Family as a redistributive principle of welfare states: An international comparison Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Patricia Frericks, Martin Gurín
Redistribution is one of the main characteristics of the welfare state, and welfare state research has dealt intensely with various facets of it. The main focus in analysing redistribution is on th...
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SOS incomes: simulated effects of COVID-19 and emergency benefits on individual and household income distribution in Italy Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Giovanni Gallo, Michele Raitano
Using a static microsimulation model based on a link between survey and administrative data, this article investigates the effects of the pandemic on income distribution in Italy in 2020. The analy...
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The wage and career consequences of temporary employment in Europe: Analysing the theories and synthesizing the evidence Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Jonathan P Latner, Nicole Saks
In Europe, the consequences of temporary employment are at the centre of a social policy debate about whether there is a trade-off between efficiency and equity when deregulating labour markets. Ho...
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Sometimes needs change minds: Interests and values as determinants of attitudes towards state support for the self-employed during the COVID-19 crisis Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Giuliano Bonoli, Flavia Fossati, Mia Gandenberger, Carlo Michael Knotz
This contribution investigates public attitudes toward providing financial help to the self-employed, a less well-researched area in the otherwise vibrant literature on welfare state attitudes. We ...
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Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Adrián Hernández, Fidel Picos, Sara Riscado
Minimum income schemes aim at providing citizens with a minimum living standard. In some EU countries, their regulation and provision takes place at the subnational level. This is the case in Spain...
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Higher education in welfare regimes: Three worlds of post-Soviet transition Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Sergey Malinovskiy, Ekaterina Shibanova
Higher education has generally been excluded from the welfare discourse, especially in transition countries. This article addresses existing research gaps by applying the ideas of decommodification...
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Activation: a thematic and conceptual review Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Jochen Clasen, Clara Mascaro
Activation as a social policy topic has been investigated since the late 1990s and continues to be popular in academic analysis and discourse. In this review, we highlight the wide range of researc...
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Learning losses and educational inequalities in Europe: Mapping the potential consequences of the COVID-19 crisis Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-05-29 Zsuzsa Blaskó, Patricia da Costa, Sylke V Schnepf
It is widely discussed that the pandemic has impacted educational inequalities across the world. However, in contrast to data on health or unemployment, data on education outcomes are not timely. H...
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The persistence of legal uncertainty on EU citizens’ access to social benefits in Germany Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Angie Gago, Constantin Hruschka
Legal uncertainty may hinder the effective implementation of public policies. Still, the political and legal dynamics that underpin its persistence are underexplored. This article proposes that legal uncertainty is more likely to persist in multi-level political and legal systems where actors with authority on the same issue hold different interpretations of rules. Also, it suggests that, under these
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English ‘iron rod’ welfare versus Italian ‘colander’ welfare: understanding the intra-European mobility strategies of unaccompanied young migrants and refugees Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Jennifer Allsopp
The experiences of unaccompanied young migrants and refugees challenge the idea of a common European asylum policy but also show that traditional welfare typologies used to account for differences in welfare across states fail to account for the lived experiences of this group. They do not consider the shifting categorizations of young migrants in institutional terms, nor how the stratification of
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The welfare state in really hard times: Political trust and satisfaction with the German healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Marius R Busemeyer
The COVID-19 pandemic represents an enormous challenge for healthcare systems around the globe. Using original panel survey data for the case of Germany, this article studies how specific trust in the healthcare system to cope with this crisis has evolved during the course of the pandemic and whether this specific form of trust is associated with general political trust. The article finds strong evidence
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Determinants of (in-)voluntary retirement: A systematic literature review Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Philipp Stiemke, Moritz Hess
Involuntary retirement transitions have a variety of negative consequences for individuals and society as they can lead to poorer health or lower wellbeing. Therefore, it is of high relevance to better understand the factors influencing the voluntariness of retirement transitions. A systematic literature review was conducted to identify the known determinants of the voluntariness of retirement. Our