Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1017/s0047279423000326
Noam Tarshish, J. Gal, R. Holler, Avishai Benish, M. Dahan
Passported benefits are additional benefits provided to individual or households based on a previous eligibility to a “primary” social security benefit. Although passported benefits should be easier to claim, in reality the claiming process is often cumbersome and results in low take-up. Drawing on an Israeli case study, we offer a conceptual framework to categorize and analyse the varieties of passported benefits along five dimensions: the eligibility role of primary cash benefits; automation level; legal status; type of service delivery; and the degree of decentralization. The administrative burden literature is employed to make sense of the paradox of passported benefits becoming a site for administrative burden. Using our conceptual framework and drawing on interviews with officials and claimants, we demonstrate why some passported benefits are more user-friendly while others tend to become administratively burdensome.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-20DOI: 10.1017/s0047279423000284
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Pub Date : 2023-06-20DOI: 10.1017/s0047279423000168
C. Deeming
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Pub Date : 2023-06-20DOI: 10.1017/s0047279423000296
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Pub Date : 2023-06-20DOI: 10.1017/s0047279423000314
Vincent Chandler, M. Dilmaghani
Since 1997, the Canadian province of Quebec has put in place a heavily subsidized universal childcare program for all children under the school age. The present paper examines how the level of competition among individual providers associates with the quality of childcare in Quebec. The quality of childcare is measured by the number of violations and penalties recorded in the inspections conducted by the Quebec Ministry of Family Affairs. The analysis indicates that the intensity of parental competition for daycare spots, as opposed to childcare centres’ competition to attract parents, negatively associates with the quality of childcare. Critically, this association is mainly driven by less affluent neighbourhoods. In addition, these associations are found to be stronger for more serious violations. The policy implications for both childcare quality and childcare equality are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-20DOI: 10.1017/s0047279423000181
D. Piachaud
demics exploring the literature on this topic: who will find all the main contributions to the debate irrespective of authors’ ideological or theoretical approach to the question. The book will also be useful as a textbook for courses on “Social Europe”, as the structure along nine questions makes for an engaging approach, and each chapter ends with a useful list of further readings and questions for debates or essays. Amandine Crespy has decided not to organize her manuscript chronologically. That has been the right decision, as the current structure gives the book much more analytical power. Still, throughout the book it becomes clear that the current state of the European social question is the result of a number of critical junctures, moments or periods during which the relationship between European integration and social protection could have taken a different course. Besides the ‘original sin’ during the negotiations of the Rome Treaties in the s to allocate market-making and market-correcting policies to different levels of government, these include the neoliberal revolution of the -s, the failure to qualitatively strengthen Social Europe during the heydays of European social democracy in the s before the enlargement of the EU to central and eastern Europe, and the response to the global financial and euro crisis. In the final chapter, Crespy reflects upon the current juncture. How will Brexit, covid- and the climate transition – and today one may add the war in Ukraine – affect the European social question? While in response to these challenges the EU has certainly taken unprecedented decisions at an unprecedented pace, Crespy argues that the EU is still not fit for purpose to tackle the social challenges of the st century. This, she argues, requires that new (social) policy innovations are not just fabricated through technocratic and/or executive politics. Instead, responding to the European social question in an effective, legitimate and sustainable way can only be done by undertaking substantial democratizing steps. But there is little evidence that today, like in the th century, elites are convinced that this is necessary to preserve the system, or that new powerful progressive forces are forming that can extort these changes.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-20DOI: 10.1017/s004727942300017x
Ferdi De Ville
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Pub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.1017/s0047279423000338
Bård Smedsvik, Roberto Iacono
Since the early years of activation and workfare in the 1990s, the use of welfare conditionality and benefit sanctions has been proposed among the necessary solutions to ensure the efficiency of welfare policy by reinforcing individual economic incentives. Using rich administrative registers from Norway, we produce micro-level quantitative evidence on compulsory activation for young recipients of social assistance. The empirical challenge is that activation through the threat of benefit sanctions is not a feature that unambiguously emerges from observational data, except for when sanctions indeed take place and benefits are reduced. To overcome this barrier, we introduce a novel methodology to identify individual-level effects of activation on young welfare recipients, exploiting municipal variation in the introduction of compulsory activation. More precisely, we study whether individuals who are residents in municipalities that have introduced compulsory activation display a stronger relationship between their labor market status (activation) and their benefit size (because sanctions being in place) compared to individuals residing in municipalities where activation has not been made compulsory. Our results show that there is no different relationship between social assistance benefits and passive labor market status for individuals living in municipalities that practice activation compared with individuals residing in municipalities in which activation is not yet mandatory. In other words, there is no visible effect of sanctions for passive recipients.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.1017/s004727942300034x
H. Hansen, Cecilie Basberg Neumann
The central idea in trust-reform is to improve service delivery by granting professional autonomy and acknowledging the experiential knowledge of professionals. In this article, we study trust-reform bottom-up from the perspective of frontline care workers. Our aim is to discuss the challenges for care work and care workers who have been organised in self-managing teams, paying particular attention to the organising of the daily work in the teams. This study draws on data from four months of fieldwork in Norwegian municipal home care services for older people. The article sheds light on some problematic aspects in trust-reform regarding the relationship between frontline workers’ autonomy and responsibility on the one hand and the lack of authority and managerial support on the other hand. The study demonstrates that trust-reforms within public service delivery can be experienced as delegation of logistical tasks and enhanced responsibility instead of delegation of the authority that is necessary for professional care work to be performed. As such, trust-reforms risk obstructing rather than advancing their declared intentions of strengthening professional agency in care work, and rather than distributing management tasks, trust-reforms need to strengthen the management function in order to succeed.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-08DOI: 10.1017/s004727942300020x
Ł. Jurek
Retirement timing is an issue of great political importance these days. Policy-makers develop various initiatives encouraging workers to postpone retirement beyond the statutory retirement age. This effort brings, however, just minimal outcomes. Although increasing opportunities and abilities to work in old age, in some countries people tend to retire as soon as it is possible. In economic terms, they make suboptimal (irrational) decisions.
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