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When hidden politics become visible: Administrative burden experiences of older adults and professionals in home care International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Maude Benoit, Patrik Marier
In the context of constraining services and support within public home care, this contribution analyses how older adults and home care workers experience and navigate administrative burdens. Relying on focus groups, interviews, and a survey conducted in the province of Québec (Canada), we demonstrate that older adults face an increasing number of administrative burdens designed to alter, delay, and
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Administrative burden in older adults: A look at SNAP International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Marian Negoita, Madeleine Levin, Anne Paprocki, Annelies Goger
An extensive literature has shown that the rules that govern access to social safety net programs create undue administrative burdens for citizens in accessing the programs. In this paper, we contribute to this literature by describing the experience of older adults with one US social safety net program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Our study gathered data from a total of 267 older
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Perceived burdens of interacting with public authorities: How does it influence citizens' state‐encounter behavior? International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Vibeke Lehmann Nielsen, Helle Ørsted Nielsen
Much research has shown that implementation behavior of frontline workers and the outcomes of public policies depend on encounters between frontline workers and citizens. However, relatively little is known about the agency of citizens in these encounters. This paper focuses on administrative burdens and psychological responses to stress as possible determinants of citizens' encounter behavior—defined
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Work–family and family–work conflict and negative attitudes toward having children: A multilevel cross‐national analysis International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Chaoxin Jiang, Cheng Ren, Shan Jiang
The relationship between work–family and family–work conflict and attitudes toward having children has been established; however, how it varies by different national cultural dimensions remains unclear. This study seeks to address this gap by examining the moderating effects of two cultural dimensions, individualism–collectivism and indulgence‐restraint, across a sample of 40 countries and regions
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Large families and poverty in Austria: What explains their disproportionate risk of experiencing income poverty? International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Karin Heitzmann, Astrid Pennerstorfer
In many countries, large families with three or more children have high income poverty rates. In this article, we aim to understand why this is the case by examining the relevance of family structure, socio‐economic characteristics, and welfare state transfers targeted at this family form. For our analyses, we use cross‐sectional data from three waves (2017–2019) of the Austrian European Union Statistics
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Bureaucratic sludge: Bureaucratic tasks and procedures leading to experiences of strain International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Rasmus Stenderup
In light of the recent conceptual debate about the administrative burdens framework, this article introduces the ‘bureaucratic sludge framework’ as a complementary theoretical approach for social policy and public administration research. The framework enable researchers to pursue novel research questions about for instance the interplay between administrative procedures, informal bureaucratic practices
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Support and employment preferences in online platform work: A cluster analysis of German‐speaking workers International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Dominik Klaus, Maddalena Lamura, Marcel Bilger, Barbara Haas
Online platform work is an emerging field of non‐standard employment. Up to now, there has been little knowledge of the perspective of online platform workers on social protection and regulation. We provide quantitative data (n = 1727) on their needs for support and on their employment status preferences. Given the heterogeneity of German‐speaking online platform workers, we have conducted a cluster
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Generosity of old‐age pensions for the self‐employed—A typology of European welfare states International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Julia Höppner
Research on pension generosity has so far used employees in standard employment as the reference point, ignoring nonstandard forms of employment such as the self‐employed. Moreover, as one of the major concepts of welfare state analysis, generosity has not been considered in research on the old‐age security of the self‐employed. Hence, there is a ‘missing link’ between the two strands in the literature
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Complex needs and ethical dilemmas—Care managers processing older clients to gerontological social work International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Riitta‐Liisa Kinni, Elisa Tiilikainen
In the times of neoliberal policies, care managers work as gatekeepers to different elder care services. In this study, we examined how care managers categorise older adults' life situations in relation to needs for gerontological social work. Our data consisted of focus group interviews with 19 care managers working in different parts of Finland and were analysed by category analysis. The results
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Hidden behind closed doors: Non‐standard employment, migrant women and gender regimes in Europe International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Chiara Giordano, Cinzia Meraviglia
Non‐standard employment (NSE) is well‐documented in the domestic sector in all European countries. The precariousness and poor working conditions of this sector reflect in a labour force composed by the most vulnerable layers of the labour market, namely, migrant women. This article analyses how and to what extent a macro‐level factor, that is, the gender regime (resulting from the interplay of gender
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Generosity's double‐edged sword: Unmasking the impact of raised social assistance rates in Norway International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Thomas Lorentzen, Espen Dahl
As long as welfare arrangements have been in existence, there has been a strong belief that high‐benefit generosity leads to welfare reliance. In this study, we investigate whether an increase in welfare generosity in Norway resulted in higher social assistance (SA) uptake and decreased engagement in paid work. By utilizing high‐quality administrative data and employing a difference‐in‐difference design
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Risk and protective factors in the training-employment trajectory of young adult migrants who have left the guardianship system International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Jorge Díaz-Esterri, Ángel De-Juanas, Rosa M. Goig-Martínez, Francisco Javier García-Castilla
In recent years, young people's economic and employment possibilities have been compromised, especially in the case of vulnerable populations such as unaccompanied foreign minors who migrate to Spain and enter the guardianship system. The aim of this study was to identify this group's most representative training trajectories, and determine the risk and protective factors involved in their insertion
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From welfare to work: The health and material well-being effects of long-term employment subsidies in Germany International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Nadja Bömmel, Mustafa Coban, Zein Kasrin, Maximilian Schiele, Claudia Wenzig, Joachim Wolff, Cordula Zabel
This paper analyses effects of subsidised, predominantly non-standard, employment within the German labour market programme ‘participation in the labour market’ for long-term welfare recipients on their health satisfaction, health-based quality of life, satisfaction with standard of living and households' actual ownership of important goods (e.g., car or new clothes) or the lack thereof due to financial
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Access to social rights under tension: The growing role of third‐party actors in dealing with the administrative burden and its implications International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Antoine Rode
The digital transformation in the public sector is a converging trend in many social protection systems. In France, it is being combined with the gradual closure of many government offices, particularly those responsible for managing social security benefits. This article focuses on one of the consequences of these developments. They lead to an increase in requests for support and help from individuals
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Capping welfare payments for workless families increases employment and economic inactivity: Evidence from the UK's benefit cap International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Aaron Reeves, Mark Fransham, Kitty Stewart, Mary Reader, Ruth Patrick
In this paper, we examine the labour market effects of lowering the UK's benefit cap in 2016. This policy limits the total amount a working‐age non‐disabled household with no‐one in employment can receive in social security. We treat the sharp reduction in this benefit cap as a natural experiment, comparing those at risk of being capped and those who were not before and after the cap was lowered. Drawing
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Shared residence and social security policy: A comparative analysis from 13 countries International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Mia Hakovirta, Daniel R. Meyer, Mari Haapanen
Increasingly, children live in both parents' homes equally after parental separation, but little is known about whether social security policy supports these shared-residence families. We propose that a determination of support for shared residence in various policies can be based on two criteria: whether both parents can receive benefits and whether the total amount received is greater than what would
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“Every day is a disaster”: Climate vulnerabilities and disaster subculture of jjokbang-chon in Seoul, Korea and its implications for social work International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Joonmo Kang
This ethnographic study examines the disaster subculture of impoverished urban poor communities regarding extreme weather disasters, through the case of jjokbang-chon, one of the most marginalized communities in Seoul, South Korea. The findings shed light on how jjokbang-chon residents make meaning of disasters, where a sense of normalcy surrounds extreme weather, developed in response to recurring
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“Do the right thing”: Immigrant perspectives of social worker support in the United States International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Abha Rai, Mary Lehman Held, Melody Huslage, Eliza Galvez, Yigermal Demissie Ayalew, Leia Siksay
Social workers play a distinctive role in serving all communities, especially immigrants. Heightened immigrant stress and deteriorating well-being have been reported amid recent anti-immigrant socio-political climate. Given the unique challenges of immigrants, they have distinct needs. In our study, we utilize data from a larger study including a sample of first- and second-generation immigrants, to
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Self-initiated moves during the formal eviction process: Findings from Swedish Register Data International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Ida Nilsson
A large body of research has demonstrated that evictions affect already vulnerable groups and are linked to a number of adverse outcomes. However, prior findings largely rely on enforced evictions processed through the legal system and it has been suggested that such an approach might underestimate the number of evictions. Using comprehensive Swedish individual-level register data from 2009 to 2012
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The two-child limit and child poverty in the United Kingdom International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Yekaterina Chzhen, Jonathan Bradshaw
The United Kingdom two-child policy was announced in 2015 and began to operate from April 2017. A mother claiming a range of means-tested benefits who had a third or subsequent child born after 6 April 2017 could not receive a child addition for them, while a new claimant with three or more children would now receive no more than a claimant with two children. Using data from nationally representative
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How large families fare in Germany: Examining child poverty risks and policy solutions International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Stephan Köppe, Megan Curran, Iñigo Aldama
Historically, researchers and policymakers alike recognized the risk of poverty among large families, but family size is often neglected in the contemporary literature. This article revives an examination of the connections between family size and poverty risk for children with a focus on Germany. We take a child-centered perspective by analyzing a sample of 13–14 year-old children from the National
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Escaping the trap of temporary employment: Precariousness among young people before and after Spain's 2021 labour market reform act International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Joan M. Verd, Alejandro Godino, Alejandro González-Heras, Joan Rodríguez-Soler
Temporary employment has been the core dimension of employment precariousness in Spain for decades. In December 2021, a labour market reform aimed at reducing the use of fixed-term contracts, which especially affected young people, was passed. This article compares the situation of young workers before and after this labour market reform, with the objective of identifying internal differences among
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“They need more programs for the kids:” Low-income mothers' views of government amidst economic precarity and burdensome programs International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Carolyn Y. Barnes, Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Jill Hoiting
Policy feedback scholars argue that experiences with government shape political participation. Administrative burden scholars posit that burdensome bureaucratic encounters deter political participation. Related quantitative studies take a top-down, deductive approach and test effects of single policies, yet people engage multiple programs, and all policies may not be equally salient in how they view
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Can increased support to foster care families reduce the number of moves for children in out-of-home care? Evidence from Norway International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Norunn Hornset, Bård Smedsvik
Norwegian youth in out-of-home care move three times as frequently as their peers. Such placement instability is linked to negative outcomes in terms of social attachment, well-being, educational achievements, health, and future opportunities. Norway implemented a new child welfare service reform in 2022 that increased the municipalities responsibilities for out-of-home care. The “incentive package”
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Ecosocial work among social welfare professionals in Finland: Key learnings for future practice International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Taija Nöjd, Sirpa Kannasoja, Petteri Niemi, Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö, Kati Närhi
An ecosocial approach implies integrating social and ecological sustainability on all levels of social work practice (Boetto, British Journal of Social Work, 2017:47(1), 48–67). This survey study explored the frequency of ecosocial work practices in Finnish social work and the factors that enable or hinder adopting ecosocial work in social work practice. The study found that ecosocial work practices
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Loans for welfare benefit recipients: Evidence from the Sample of Integrated Welfare Benefit Biographies (SIG) 2007–2020 International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Sandra Dummert, Philipp Grunau, Katrin Hohmeyer, Torsten Lietzmann
The Sample of Integrated Welfare Benefit Biographies (SIG) provides comprehensive administrative data on the labour market participation, household composition and financial situation of welfare benefit recipients and their household members in Germany between 2007 and 2020. The SIG data enables research on the dynamics of welfare receipt and labour market participation of welfare recipients. The aim
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“That's where the hunt for the correction begins”: Experiences of administrative errors as sites of administrative burden International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Roni Holler, Noam Tarshish, Efrat Kaplan
To err is human, and as such, administrative errors are an inevitable component of current and future welfare state bureaucracy. Hitherto, while studies on administrative burden have shown us that routine interactions with welfare bureaucracy are often burdensome, very little is known about the nature of these interactions when something goes wrong. Most social policy and public administration scholarship
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The concept of generational contract: A systematic literature review International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Minna Zechner, Tiina Sihto
Major societal changes, such as the ongoing climate crisis, and the population ageing, affect the relations between generations within societies. The concept of generational contract is widely used to study these relations. However, the concept is rarely clearly defined, and the contents and terms of the contract, as well as the parties involved remain unclear. This article provides a systematic literature
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Intergenerational transmission or local labour market context? A comparative analysis of the formation of work value patterns in 65 European regions International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Felix Hörisch, Julia Weiss
This article analyses the driving factors behind the formation of individual work values in European welfare states. By comparing relative preferences for extrinsic and intrinsic work values, we shed light on the discussion of the effects of intergenerational transmission and the structuring effects of labour market policies and regional opportunity structures on the formation of work values. Therefore
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Do individualised projects help integrate the long-term unemployed and disadvantaged people? Lessons from the Czech Republic International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Ondřej Hora, Tomáš Sirovátka
This article evaluates a national project for the integration of long-term unemployed and disadvantaged groups of jobseekers implemented in the Czech Republic since 2019. It discusses how individual work and active labour market policy measures for these groups have changed, and what the outcomes were. We combined a quantitative evaluation of the targeting and outcomes of the measures with a qualitative
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A scoping review of gambling policy research in Europe International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Niccolò Aimo, Matteo Bassoli, Virve Marionneau
In Europe, gambling policy is conditioned by different administrative levels, including national authorities and the EU, as well as institutions of the European Economic Area (EEA). The legal framework of the EU/EEA requires Member States to pursue evidence-based policy. The current scoping review focuses on what kind of policy research is available on gambling in the European context to support evidence-based
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Automating social assistance: Exploring the use of robotic process automation in the Swedish personal social services International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Nora Germundsson, Hugo Stranz
Many European countries employ Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in the administration of public benefits. However, there is limited understanding of how RPA is applied at the client level. This article investigates the utilization and impact of RPA use on social assistance (SA) distribution in Sweden, drawing on a sample of 800 SA applications in four Swedish municipalities. The results show that RPA
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Poverty and inequality impact of COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh province, Afghanistan International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Baqir Khawari, Selamah Abdullah Yusof
Poverty was already a main problem in Afghanistan even before, but it has exacerbated due to the pandemic. However, the actual impact of the pandemic on households had not been investigated. This study provides such analysis using data obtained from a strictly random survey of 1060 households in the capital of Balkh, the fourth most populated province in Afghanistan. Using headcount ratio and poverty
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The ideological roots of the activation paradigm: How justice preferences and unemployment attributions shape public support for demanding activation policies International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Arno Van Hootegem, Federica Rossetti, Koen Abts, Bart Meuleman
Research either focused on self-interest or left–right ideology to explain support for demanding active labour market policies (ALMPs). This article focuses instead on how attitudes towards these policies are rooted in the underlying policy paradigm. We link attitudes towards ALMPs to two pillars of the activation paradigm: distributive justice and unemployment attributions. Structural equational modeling
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From self-care to compassion resilience: Extending the model of protective factors for humanitarian practitioners International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Julie Richards, Guy Shrayer
Humanitarian practitioners, specifically emergency aid and relief workers, disaster responders, social workers, and crisis clinicians, are at elevated risk of experiencing trauma as a result of their professions. Approaches for responding to the silent pandemic of reactive traumatic stress, including secondary traumatic stress and vicarious traumatization among humanitarian practitioners continue to
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Exploring the association between educational aspirations and intentions to migrate among youth in Central Mexico by gender International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Flavio F. Marsiglia, Ana Paola Campos, Shiyou Wu, Bertha L. Nuño-Gutiérrez, Hilda García-Pérez, Jennifer E. Glick
We assessed the association between educational aspirations and the intention to migrate among 1446 adolescents aged 11–17 years, living in semi-urban/rural communities in Jalisco, Mexico. Analyses rely on survey data from the Family Migration and Early Life Outcomes study. The outcome variable was the intention to migrate, a three-category variable coded as no intention to migrate, intention to migrate
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Behavioral health literacy: A new construct to improve outcomes among incarcerated individuals International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Carrie Pettus, Stephanie C. Kennedy, Tanya Renn, Stephen Tripodi, Lauren Herod, Danielle Rudes, Faye S. Taxman
In the United States, nearly 13 million adults are incarcerated in prisons and jails annually with significant negative public health consequences. Incarcerated individuals have disproportionate rates of behavioral health disorders (BHDs); untreated BHD symptoms bring people into incarceration settings and are associated with re-arrest after release. Although lack of treatment motivation is often used
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Representation of visible minorities in Canada's public service: Slow but significant progression International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Joyce Opare-Addo
This study examined the representation of visible minority (VM) employees in Canada's public service to clarify the extent to which Canada's Employment Equity Act (EEA) for diversity and equity management has influenced VM employment outcomes, with a focus on executive (leadership) and professional representation. Data from EEA annual reports (1997–2020) were analysed, and the results for VMs in the
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Income-poor, asset-rich? The role of homeownership in shaping the welfare position of the elderly International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-06-04 Edyta Marcinkiewicz, Filip Chybalski
The study explores the distribution of elderly households in terms of combinations of different levels of income and wealth and relates to the typically greater homeownership rates in this group than in the younger generation. Using microdata from the Luxembourg Wealth Study for 12 countries it demonstrates that ‘income-poor, asset-rich’ elderly households are a quite marginal category. However, the
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Who's minding the children: Gender equity in the first 2 years of the pandemic International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-06-04 Joseph Marlo, Marc A. Scott, Sharon L. Weinberg
The wholesale changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic to men and women's paid work arrangements and work–family balance provide a natural experiment for testing the common elements of two theories, needs exposure (Schafer et al. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue Canadienne De Sociologie, 57(4);2020:523–549) and parental proximity (Sullivan et al. Family Theory & Review, 2018;10(1):263–279)
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Care work in different arenas: Working conditions in Swedish eldercare and disability services International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Sara Erlandsson, Marta Szebehely
Care work is shaped by the context in which it is carried out. This study explored the context, content, conditions and consequences of work in two fields of social care in Sweden: eldercare and disability services. Policy documents and statistical sources were used to analyse the context. Job content, working conditions and consequences of work were analysed using survey data collected in 2015 and
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Poverty in Europe: How long-term poverty developed following the financial crisis and what drives it International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-05-21 Axel Franzen, Sebastian Bahr
The purpose of this paper is to provide an update on the development of the long-term relative poverty rate in Europe. We use European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions data (EU-SILC) for 26 European countries between 2009 and 2018. In addition to describing the development of long-term poverty, we also analyse the drivers of poverty on the country level via fixed effects panel regression
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Epistemic justice in international social work research: Postcolonial theory and analytic strategies International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Claire Willey-Sthapit
Scholars have long grappled with the ways in which unequal power relations influence the creation and circulation of international social work knowledge. I outline a robust postcolonial theoretical framework to elucidate complexities of global knowledge and power and extend possibilities for considering such questions of epistemic justice. Drawing on my own research with service providers in Nepal
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Reducing sex work by targeting ‘vulnerable’ sex workers: A post-structural analysis of policies regulating Danish exit programmes directed at people involved in sex work International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Henrik Karlsson
Despite the increased popularity of exit programmes targeting people involved in sex work, the research community has yet not critically scrutinised policies that regulate these programmes. This study aimed to start filling this research gap by studying the example of Denmark, a country that has implemented exit programmes although sex work remains partly decriminalised since 1999. In specific, this
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A behavioural livelihoods approach to address psychosocial constraints to empowerment International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Amanda Lenhardt, Vidya Diwakar, Emmanuel Tumusiime, Joseph Simbaya, Arthur Monze Moonga
Little is known about psychosocial or ‘internal’ behaviours that can perpetuate chronic poverty and how to alleviate them in development programmes. This paper presents a conceptual and evaluation framework examining the relationship between a person's psychosocial behaviours, empowerment and economic wellbeing. The framework shows empowerment is enabled or limited by internal behaviours – including
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How culture influences the strengthening of market principles in conservative welfare states: The case of long-term care policy International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Thurid Eggers, Christopher Grages, Birgit Pfau-Effinger
How much, and in what ways, do cultural ideas contribute to understanding cross-national differences in the extent of long-term care (LTC) policy marketisation? We argue that differences in cultural ideas in the political sphere about ‘ideal’ ways of organising the provision of care shed light on these differences, relatively independently of the governing parties' positions on the left/right spectrum
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Dimensions of controversy: Investigating the structure of public support for universal basic income in the Netherlands International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Erwin Gielens, Femke Roosma, Peter Achterberg
As interest in universal basic income (UBI) policy has peaked in recent years, the study of public support for such a policy is rapidly developing. While recent studies recognise the multidimensionality of the UBI proposal, we still know little about to what extent support for UBI is unambiguously supported or rejected. We show that the public holds distinct but related opinions towards three dimensions
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Exploring the displacement induced changes in social convoys and support for older women in displacement (OWD) in Abuja, Nigeria International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Prince Chiagozie Ekoh, Ejimakaraonye Chukwuemeka
The world is witnessing a dramatic increase in displaced persons in Africa, Asia, South America, and, most recently, Europe. Within this population of violence-induced displacement are older women, a group that is mostly unseen because research and relief initiatives primarily target younger women and children. This study aimed to explore the changes in the convoys and support for older women in displacement
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Careless hospitality: Family reunification in Ireland involving children and young people of international protection background International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Karen Smith, Muireann Ní Raghallaigh, Derina Johnson
This article examines policy and provision in relation to family reunification for persons with international protection status in Ireland through the lens of hospitality. The particular focus is on reunification involving children and young people, including former unaccompanied minors. Drawing on interviews and focus groups with sponsors, reunited family members and service providers, the article
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Social work in space: Expanding policy and practice into the cosmos International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Marissa E. Yingling
As private interests expand in space, what is the significance, if any, to social work? To answer this question, I present several implications of contemporary human activities in space and assess their relevance to environmental and ecological justice. Specifically, I evaluate the connection between the profession and the commercialization and exploitation of space resources, human-generated cosmic
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Exploring care leavers' agency in achieving entry into the world of work: A cross-national study in six countries International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Helena Johansson, Yvonne Sjöblom, Ingrid Höjer, Robbie Gilligan, Laura Arnau-Sabatés, Hana Pazlarová, Veerle Soyez, Jill Stoddart
This article draws attention to the relevance of young care leavers' exercise of agency as one possible key ingredient in overcoming barriers to engagement in work. Several previous studies show difficulties in entering adult life, both in relation to higher and further education as well as entrance into work life. The article analyses interviews with young adults from six countries, who have spent
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Poor labour market prospects due to intensive caregiving? Childcare and eldercare among welfare recipients in Germany International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Silke Hamann, Gabriele Wydra-Somaggio
Despite the favourable economic situation in Germany over the last decade, the number of welfare recipients (~5 million) remained at a persistently high level. One factor limiting individuals' abilities to exit welfare dependency into employment is informal care. This article analyses two aspects of informal care: childcare, considering the number of caregivers in a given family constellation, and
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Experience of guilt in court hearings—Comparing rape, assault and fraud cases International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Maritha Jacobsson
Feelings of guilt often occur when people are subjected to crime. In this study, guilt is defined as a moral and emotional category, as opposed to the legal guilt. The aim of this study was to investigate how crime victims related to feelings of guilt in the court process. Interviews with plaintiffs in rape cases (10) have been compared to interviews with plaintiffs in assault (10) and fraud cases
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Cultural–legal brokering and gender: A study of refugee-serving institutions upon resettlement International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Odessa Gonzalez Benson, Leila Asadi, Ana Paula Pimentel Walker, Mieko Yoshihama
Increased academic attention to the intersections of refugee studies and gender studies has focused on the lives and trajectories of refugee women. In this study, we examine resettlement institutions involved with refugee women, drawing upon critical scholarship on “brokerage.” Brokers reproduce and impose the powers of the state, but also negotiate with and resist the state. We draw from interviews
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Feelings of being socially excluded: A matter of education, labour market situation, income, deprivation, or other things? International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Hans-Tore Hansen
This article aims (1) to investigate whether immigrants in the Norwegian population and their descendants differ in their feelings of being socially excluded from society compared with others born in Norway (‘natives’), and (2) to test empirically whether these differences reflect differences in human and economic capital (i.e., education, work, income, and material deprivation) and factors related
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Trends in informal and formal home help use among older adults with disabilities in Japan: From 1999 to 2017 International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Hidehiro Sugisawa, Yoko Sugihara, Erika Kobayashi, Taro Fukaya, Jersey Liang
We examined trends and differences in home help (HH) use between 1999 and 2017 regarding living arrangements, gender, income and disability levels relating to the changes in Japan's long-term care policy. HH is the help provided for activities of daily living to older adults with disabilities. We classified it into four types: only informal, informal and formal, only formal and neither and measured
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De-gendering parents: Gender inclusion and standardised language in screen-level bureaucracy International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Frida Höglund, Marie Flinkfeldt
Swedish welfare organisations have a long history of promoting gender equality and inclusivity, involving implementation of more gender-inclusive language (e.g., non-gendered terminology). This study analysed the use of non/gendered expressions at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, as state policy is realised in conjunction with personalised service in textual interaction in screen-level bureaucracy
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Predictors of burnout for immigrant mental health professionals in the United States International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Isabel C. Farrell, Dareen Basma, Amanda C. DeDiego, Rakesh K. Maurya, Kara M. Hurt-Avila
Mental health professionals who identify as immigrants encounter personal and professional barriers that can impact overall wellbeing. The current study conducted a survey of 108 licensed mental health professionals who identify as immigrants practicing in the United States. The survey included demographics as well as assessments of burnout, social support, and migratory grief and loss. The results
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Better job prospects or an imperative to ‘just work’? A cross-national study on social investment and women's employment International Journal of Social Welfare (IF 1.717) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Ijin Hong, Ji Young Kang, Jieun Lee
Social investment policies advocate for more and better jobs by supporting families' work-life balance and investing in human capital. But do they really help to boost employment prospects for women? Earlier literature suggests a positive relationship, but not enough attention has been paid to the type of employment, or to who the actual beneficiaries of these measures are. This article combines ISSP