Unemployment insurance in the Global South since 1950: Drivers of policy adoption

IF 1.5 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Global Social Policy Pub Date : 2021-10-08 DOI:10.1177/14680181211049654

Herbert Obinger, Carina Schmitt

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Until 1945, Western countries were the only ones to have introduced unemployment insurance programs. Since their adoption was extremely controversial, almost all Western nations introduced income support for the unemployed only in the wake of national emergencies such as war and economic depression. This article examines the determinants of program adoption in the Global South, which commenced after the Second World War. With the exception of military conflict, we find that the introduction of unemployment insurance was shaped by factors deviating from the driving forces of program adoption in the Western world. More specifically, we provide evidence that international factors such as war, the activities of the ILO and policy diffusion were more important than domestic factors.

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1950年以来全球南方的失业保险:政策采纳的驱动因素

直到1945年，西方国家是唯一引入失业保险计划的国家。由于它们的采用极具争议，几乎所有西方国家都是在战争和经济萧条等国家紧急情况发生后才为失业者提供收入支持的。本文考察了第二次世界大战后开始的全球南方项目采用的决定因素。除了军事冲突，我们发现失业保险的引入是由偏离西方世界采用计划的驱动力的因素形成的。更具体地说，我们提供的证据表明，战争、劳工组织的活动和政策传播等国际因素比国内因素更重要。

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Global Social Policy POLITICAL SCIENCE-

CiteScore

3.20

自引率

6.70%

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期刊介绍： Global Social Policy is a fully peer-reviewed journal that advances the understanding of the impact of globalisation processes upon social policy and social development on the one hand, and the impact of social policy upon globalisation processes on the other hand. The journal analyses the contributions of a range of national and international actors, both governmental and non-governmental, to global social policy and social development discourse and practice. Global Social Policy publishes scholarly policy-oriented articles and reports that focus on aspects of social policy and social and human development as broadly defined in the context of globalisation be it in contemporary or historical contexts.