International Journal of Social Welfare最新文献

{"title":"Disability counts: How well do countries address disability in their care-leaving population?","authors":"Leah P. Cheatham,&nbsp;Claire Baker,&nbsp;Ingri H. B. Bennwik,&nbsp;Kathy Ellem,&nbsp;Berni Kelly,&nbsp;Inger Oterholm,&nbsp;Jemma Venables,&nbsp;Melissa L. Villodas","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.70078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.70078","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Disabled youth are over-represented among care-leavers transitioning into adulthood. However, the experiences and needs of disabled care-leavers are not well understood—largely due to inconsistencies in definition and data collection practices. Applying the lens of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD, 2007), this paper examines the strengths and limitations of existing definitions and data collection practices regarding disabled care-leavers in four countries: Norway, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States. While each country has made progress toward meeting the needs of disabled care-leavers, careful identification of this group has been overlooked to varying degrees within their policy frameworks, limiting evaluation and planning efforts within and across countries. Implications of current definition and data approaches are considered, and recommendations to improve and better coordinate data collection efforts are offered to promote advocacy for the well-being of disabled care-leavers internationally.</p>","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148237428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Disability counts: How well do countries address disability in their care-leaving population?","authors":"Leah P. Cheatham,&nbsp;Claire Baker,&nbsp;Ingri H. B. Bennwik,&nbsp;Kathy Ellem,&nbsp;Berni Kelly,&nbsp;Inger Oterholm,&nbsp;Jemma Venables,&nbsp;Melissa L. Villodas","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.70078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.70078","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Disabled youth are over-represented among care-leavers transitioning into adulthood. However, the experiences and needs of disabled care-leavers are not well understood—largely due to inconsistencies in definition and data collection practices. Applying the lens of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD, 2007), this paper examines the strengths and limitations of existing definitions and data collection practices regarding disabled care-leavers in four countries: Norway, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States. While each country has made progress toward meeting the needs of disabled care-leavers, careful identification of this group has been overlooked to varying degrees within their policy frameworks, limiting evaluation and planning efforts within and across countries. Implications of current definition and data approaches are considered, and recommendations to improve and better coordinate data collection efforts are offered to promote advocacy for the well-being of disabled care-leavers internationally.</p>","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148237429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From social investment to sustainable welfare: Ecological crisis, global justice, and the work-welfare nexus","authors":"Francesco Laruffa,&nbsp;Robin Schulze Waltrup,&nbsp;Alexandra Kaasch","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.70082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.70082","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Social investment is one of the dominant approaches to welfare reform worldwide. Highlighting the positive contribution of social policy to the economy, social investment constitutes a valuable alternative to austerity. In this research note, we argue that—despite its merits—social investment is problematic from an ecological and global justice perspective, as it remains tied to the capitalist regime of overproduction and overconsumption that causes the transgression of planetary boundaries and the exploitation of the global South. Against this backdrop, we propose “sustainable welfare” as an alternative framework for social policy reform. Rejecting productivism, the sustainable welfare paradigm embraces a post-capitalist socioeconomic system, which puts the care for people and planet center stage.</p>","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijsw.70082","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148237648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From social investment to sustainable welfare: Ecological crisis, global justice, and the work-welfare nexus","authors":"Francesco Laruffa,&nbsp;Robin Schulze Waltrup,&nbsp;Alexandra Kaasch","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.70082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.70082","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Social investment is one of the dominant approaches to welfare reform worldwide. Highlighting the positive contribution of social policy to the economy, social investment constitutes a valuable alternative to austerity. In this research note, we argue that—despite its merits—social investment is problematic from an ecological and global justice perspective, as it remains tied to the capitalist regime of overproduction and overconsumption that causes the transgression of planetary boundaries and the exploitation of the global South. Against this backdrop, we propose “sustainable welfare” as an alternative framework for social policy reform. Rejecting productivism, the sustainable welfare paradigm embraces a post-capitalist socioeconomic system, which puts the care for people and planet center stage.</p>","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijsw.70082","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148237427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Grandchild caregiving in Hong Kong and implications for intergenerational relationships","authors":"Chak Kwan Chan,&nbsp;Kong Sang Lou,&nbsp;Florence Meng Soi Fong,&nbsp;Ka Chung Kwong","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.70080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.70080","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study draws on perspectives from social exchange theory and Chinese filial piety to assess the validity of these frameworks in explaining grandchildren's caregiving behaviour. Through in-depth interviews, data on caregiving experiences were collected from 40 grandchildren who had provided care for disabled or ill grandparents. Thematic analysis was employed, yielding four main themes: “childhood support and reciprocity,” “prior help and traditional filial obligation,” “reducing parents' caregiving burden,” and “interactions of reciprocity, traditional familism, reducing parents' burden and availability.” The findings reveal that grandchildren's caregiving cannot be fully explained by social exchange or filial piety alone; instead, it emerges from a combination of factors, including the individual grandchild's availability, their relationship with their grandparents, their attachment to traditional family values and living arrangements. Since prior support from grandparents is a key driver of grandchildren's caregiving, ageing-in-place policies and welfare agencies should foster intergenerational interaction and strengthen family bonds. This is particularly important in societies where childcare is often outsourced to foreign domestic helpers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijsw.70080","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148174292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Grandchild caregiving in Hong Kong and implications for intergenerational relationships","authors":"Chak Kwan Chan,&nbsp;Kong Sang Lou,&nbsp;Florence Meng Soi Fong,&nbsp;Ka Chung Kwong","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.70080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.70080","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study draws on perspectives from social exchange theory and Chinese filial piety to assess the validity of these frameworks in explaining grandchildren's caregiving behaviour. Through in-depth interviews, data on caregiving experiences were collected from 40 grandchildren who had provided care for disabled or ill grandparents. Thematic analysis was employed, yielding four main themes: “childhood support and reciprocity,” “prior help and traditional filial obligation,” “reducing parents' caregiving burden,” and “interactions of reciprocity, traditional familism, reducing parents' burden and availability.” The findings reveal that grandchildren's caregiving cannot be fully explained by social exchange or filial piety alone; instead, it emerges from a combination of factors, including the individual grandchild's availability, their relationship with their grandparents, their attachment to traditional family values and living arrangements. Since prior support from grandparents is a key driver of grandchildren's caregiving, ageing-in-place policies and welfare agencies should foster intergenerational interaction and strengthen family bonds. This is particularly important in societies where childcare is often outsourced to foreign domestic helpers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijsw.70080","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148174167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of Unemployment benefit sanctions among young adults with and without labour market disadvantages: A register-based target trial emulation in Finland","authors":"Jaakko Harkko,&nbsp;Niklas Mäkinen,&nbsp;Laura Peutere,&nbsp;Satu Pyöriä","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.70081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.70081","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To encourage transitions into employment or education, governments impose benefit sanctions on unemployed individuals who fail to comply with conditionality requirements. However, evidence on the effectiveness of such sanctions remains limited, particularly among young adults. We investigated whether sanctions are associated with transitions into employment or education and whether effects differ among individuals facing labour market disadvantages. To estimate causal effects using observational data, we applied a target trial emulation framework. We used nationwide Finnish register data on 52,890 unemployed individuals under the age of 25 in 2022. Following a target trial emulation framework, we treated sanctions as the intervention and applied coarsened exact matching with importance weights to approximate random allocation. We constructed a labour market disadvantage score by summing five indicators associated with poorer labour market attachment. Time-to-event outcomes over a 24-month follow-up were estimated using parametric survival models. Overall, 78% of young adults transitioned to employment or education within an average of 10 months. Pooled across all sanction types, sanctions were associated with a modestly higher transition hazard (HR = 1.09, 95% CI 1.05–1.14) and a 0.9-month shorter median time to employment or education. Among individuals without labour market disadvantages, sanctions were associated with a 1.7-month reduction in median time to transition (HR = 1.43, 95% CI 1.29–1.58). By contrast, among those with one or more disadvantages, hazard ratios were statistically non-significant (HR = 0.99–1.07) and differences in median time were negligible (0.1–0.2 months). Unemployment benefit sanctions can facilitate transitions to employment or education among unemployed young adults without labour market disadvantages. However, the effects of sanctions differ between those with and without such disadvantages. Policymakers may use these findings to retarget sanctions or combine them with supportive measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijsw.70081","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148173842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of Unemployment benefit sanctions among young adults with and without labour market disadvantages: A register-based target trial emulation in Finland","authors":"Jaakko Harkko,&nbsp;Niklas Mäkinen,&nbsp;Laura Peutere,&nbsp;Satu Pyöriä","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.70081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.70081","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To encourage transitions into employment or education, governments impose benefit sanctions on unemployed individuals who fail to comply with conditionality requirements. However, evidence on the effectiveness of such sanctions remains limited, particularly among young adults. We investigated whether sanctions are associated with transitions into employment or education and whether effects differ among individuals facing labour market disadvantages. To estimate causal effects using observational data, we applied a target trial emulation framework. We used nationwide Finnish register data on 52,890 unemployed individuals under the age of 25 in 2022. Following a target trial emulation framework, we treated sanctions as the intervention and applied coarsened exact matching with importance weights to approximate random allocation. We constructed a labour market disadvantage score by summing five indicators associated with poorer labour market attachment. Time-to-event outcomes over a 24-month follow-up were estimated using parametric survival models. Overall, 78% of young adults transitioned to employment or education within an average of 10 months. Pooled across all sanction types, sanctions were associated with a modestly higher transition hazard (HR = 1.09, 95% CI 1.05–1.14) and a 0.9-month shorter median time to employment or education. Among individuals without labour market disadvantages, sanctions were associated with a 1.7-month reduction in median time to transition (HR = 1.43, 95% CI 1.29–1.58). By contrast, among those with one or more disadvantages, hazard ratios were statistically non-significant (HR = 0.99–1.07) and differences in median time were negligible (0.1–0.2 months). Unemployment benefit sanctions can facilitate transitions to employment or education among unemployed young adults without labour market disadvantages. However, the effects of sanctions differ between those with and without such disadvantages. Policymakers may use these findings to retarget sanctions or combine them with supportive measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijsw.70081","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148173893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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{"title":"The long-term impact of childhood parental migration on individuals' multidimensional development: Evidence from China family panel studies (2010–2022)","authors":"Lu Li,&nbsp;Xiao Luo,&nbsp;Xuecheng Zou","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.70079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.70079","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Utilizing panel data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) 2010–2022, this study identifies parental migration experience between ages 0 and 12 and constructs an Individual Multidimensional Development Index (IMDI) using the entropy-weighting method to examine the long-term association between childhood left-behind experience and individual development. The results show that early left-behind experience is significantly and negatively associated with individuals' multidimensional development in adulthood, and this association remains robust after controlling for individual, household, and regional characteristics. Regarding migration patterns, the negative association for dual-parent migration is stronger than that for single-parent migration; when parental roles are distinguished, maternal migration is associated with a significant negative association, whereas paternal migration shows limited compensatory patterns. Heterogeneity analyses further reveal that the long-term adverse consequences of left-behind experience are primarily concentrated in cognitive ability, mental health, and educational attainment, with no significant effect observed for non-cognitive skills; moreover, these negative effects are more pronounced among individuals from urban hukou backgrounds, males, and those residing in the eastern region. These findings highlight the need to reduce parent–child separation and provide targeted support for left-behind children and their families to mitigate long-term disadvantage.</p>","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148091918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}