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How welfare states influence online platform work in Europe. 福利国家如何影响欧洲的在线平台运作。

IF 2.3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-18 eCollection Date: 2026-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/09589287251357463

Juliana Chueri, Petter Törnberg

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When caring comes at a cost: Psychological wellbeing of unpaid and paid carers and the role of social expenditure. 当照顾是有代价的：无薪和有薪照顾者的心理健康和社会支出的作用。

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Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-04 eCollection Date: 2026-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/09589287251356978

Naomi Lightman, Anthony Kevins

{"title":"When caring comes at a cost: Psychological wellbeing of unpaid and paid carers and the role of social expenditure.","authors":"Naomi Lightman, Anthony Kevins","doi":"10.1177/09589287251356978","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09589287251356978","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines whether, and under what conditions, unpaid and paid care work are associated with reduced psychological wellbeing. The article begins by laying out a shared theoretical framework for understanding the psychological consequences of care among both unpaid and paid carers. It then tests the empirical implications of this framework, conducting multi-level model analysis of European Quality of Life Survey and European Social Survey data and: (1) disaggregating care work based on (a) the care recipient - i.e., adults or children - for unpaid carers and (b) the level of occupational professionalization for paid carers; and (2) examining the potential intervening role of social expenditure. Findings demonstrate that unpaid caring for adults (though not children) is associated with a marginal decrease in psychological wellbeing, but that this dynamic is limited to countries with smaller welfare states. Among paid care workers, only paraprofessionals are found to have lower levels of psychological wellbeing than comparable non-care workers - but here again increased social expenditure appears to have a significant buffering effect. Together, results reinforce the need for robust social spending to mitigate negative psychological consequences of care, while adding important nuance regarding the relevance of the type of care work being performed.","PeriodicalId":47919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Social Policy","volume":"36 2","pages":"150-164"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13052986/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147634810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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What works? Researching participants’ experiences of a social policy RCT through qualitative interviews 什么有效？通过定性访谈研究参与者对社会政策 RCT 的体验

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1177/09589287241284780

Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll, Laura Tarkiainen

{"title":"What works? Researching participants’ experiences of a social policy RCT through qualitative interviews","authors":"Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll, Laura Tarkiainen","doi":"10.1177/09589287241284780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241284780","url":null,"abstract":"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 scholarly attention. Despite the popularity of RCTs, there is a lack of studies of participants’ experiences of participation in social policy RCTs. In this article, we depart from the notion of ‘lived experiences’ when investigating a bottom-up participant perspective of the Finnish social policy experiment with the purpose of contributing to the understanding and future planning of ethically and methodologically sustainable policy experiments. Drawing on a qualitative, in-depth interview study of 81 Finnish basic income experiment participants, we examined their lived experiences and related views on the experiment. The analysis shows that although the idea of experimenting to demonstrate ‘what works’ in social policy was supported by participants in principle, various questions arose both concerning the tactical and political purposes of the experiment and the nature of scientific ‘evidence’. Furthermore, the results demonstrate that the impact of the media and political attention often surrounding more controversial policy experiments, like the Finnish one, can also challenge the RCT principles of ‘non-contamination’. Participants in highly politicized experiments also easily feel that they become objects of strong moral expectations and judgements, which in the Finnish basic income case clearly resulted in feelings of frustration and personal failure.","PeriodicalId":47919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Social Policy","volume":"197 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142265950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Cross-class solidarity in times of crisis: the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on support for redistribution 危机时期的跨阶层团结：COVID-19 大流行病对支持再分配的经济影响

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Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI: 10.1177/09589287241271037

Simone Tonelli, Eloisa Harris, Franziska Deeg

{"title":"Cross-class solidarity in times of crisis: the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on support for redistribution","authors":"Simone Tonelli, Eloisa Harris, Franziska Deeg","doi":"10.1177/09589287241271037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241271037","url":null,"abstract":"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 benefit from social assistance, will support its expansion. On the other hand, we expect higher-income individuals affected economically by COVID-19 to be more supportive of social assistance, even though they do not benefit from it, and less likely to consider welfare recipients ‘undeserving’ compared to higher-income individuals not economically affected by the pandemic. We argue that first-hand crisis experiences update people’s beliefs about how luck impacts one’s economic situation in the presence of an exogenous shock. We combine observational and experimental data from an original survey collected in Germany in April 2021 to test our expectations. On average, low-income respondents appear to be the most vigorous supporters of social assistance, but their support is not conditional on their experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, we find that the support for more social assistance among affluent individuals depends on the economic impact of the pandemic. We experimentally manipulated the deservingness of welfare recipients and found that better-off respondents impacted by the pandemic were less likely to penalize even the most ‘undeserving’ welfare beneficiaries. We suggest that solidarity between classes in hard times may occur through a convergence of the deservingness perception among individuals. The article has broader implications for studying the effect of crises on solidarity and the conditional nature of class-based explanations for support for different welfare policies.","PeriodicalId":47919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Social Policy","volume":"165 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142227743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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COVID-19 hits care homes: A cross-national study of mortality rates COVID-19 袭击了护理之家：关于死亡率的跨国研究

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1177/09589287241268490

Margarita Estévez-Abe, Costanzo Ranci

{"title":"COVID-19 hits care homes: A cross-national study of mortality rates","authors":"Margarita Estévez-Abe, Costanzo Ranci","doi":"10.1177/09589287241268490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241268490","url":null,"abstract":"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 of national systems of residential care in enhancing or weakening the capacity of these systems to protect their residents from the pandemic and seeks to draw some lessons for the future. Because the mortality rate in care homes strongly correlates with the overall infection rate within the community, this article adopts an innovative approach to conceptualize and measure the protection capacity of national residential care systems more specifically – that is net of mortality rates within the community. The study makes important contributions to the care policy field. The traditional care regime typology fails to explain cross-national variations in the protective capacity of care homes. Governmental spending on long-term care systems certainly matters for protective capacity but we find that a factor previously neglected by care regime scholars also matters. More specifically, we show that the pattern of staff organization affects protective capacity. Our findings call for a rethinking of care systems in the face of future pandemics.","PeriodicalId":47919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Social Policy","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142223897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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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) 定向转移支付，左翼政策？左翼政府和公司主义对低收入家庭转移支付的影响（1982-2019年）

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-08-23 DOI: 10.1177/09589287241240317

Dominic Durocher

{"title":"Targeted transfers, a left-wing policy? The impact of left-wing governments and corporatism on transfers to low-income families (1982–2019)","authors":"Dominic Durocher","doi":"10.1177/09589287241240317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241240317","url":null,"abstract":"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- and left-wing governments increase benefits for middle-income families. The impact of left-wing governments should be stronger in countries with a weak bargaining system as social partners are unable to reduce inequalities between families. To demonstrate this argument, I use statistical analyses based on OECD data to measure the effect of government ideology and corporatism on the level of benefits received by low- and middle-income families in OECD countries from 1982 to 2019. The results indicate that left-wing parties have a significant impact on benefits received by low-income families, but not on benefits received by middle-income families. Also, even though corporatism is associated with different types of child benefits, it does not influence the relationship between left-wing governments and benefits received by low-income families.","PeriodicalId":47919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Social Policy","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142183406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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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 帮助还是伤害？研究积极劳动力市场计划对青壮年就业质量的影响以及社会出身的作用

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-08-03 DOI: 10.1177/09589287241268442

Veronika J Knize, Markus Wolf

{"title":"Help or harm? Examining the effects of active labour market programmes on young adults’ employment quality and the role of social origin","authors":"Veronika J Knize, Markus Wolf","doi":"10.1177/09589287241268442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241268442","url":null,"abstract":"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 indicators: one on whether someone has a job with earnings below the low wage threshold and the other on whether they have a job with earnings above the low wage threshold. These measures help us assess whether ALMPs prevent young adults from being at risk of poverty again. In addition, we study whether ALMP effects vary by social origin. We distinguish young adults by whether their families collected benefits when they were adolescents, as a marker for disadvantaged social origin. We analyse in-firm training and one-euro jobs as examples for enabling and workfare programmes, which exist across other welfare states as well. Empirically, we apply an entropy balancing approach to a self-drawn sample from registry data to analyse ALMP treatment effects. Results show that in-firm training enhances young adults’ employment quality in the long run. The effects tend to be lower for those from disadvantaged families though, indicating that disadvantages embedded in social origin remain. The workfare programme harms participants’ employment quality, with those less disadvantaged suffering the greatest damage. Overall, our research provides evidence that in-firm training effectively enables young adults to find a job of higher quality, addressing their risk of social exclusion and proving useful in promoting upward social mobility. Nonetheless, the article also raises urgent issues concerning how the needs of those most vulnerable can be addressed by social policy.","PeriodicalId":47919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Social Policy","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141931245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The politics of subnational social policy: Social consumption versus social investment in Austria 国家以下各级社会政策的政治：奥地利的社会消费与社会投资

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Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-06-21 DOI: 10.1177/09589287241258605

Carmen Walenta-Bergmann, Tobias Wiß

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Does the (socio-political) socialization context matter for paternal involvement? 社会政治）社会化背景对父亲的参与有影响吗？

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Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-05-17 DOI: 10.1177/09589287241251993

Thomas Eichhorn, Claudia Zerle-Elsäßer

{"title":"Does the (socio-political) socialization context matter for paternal involvement?","authors":"Thomas Eichhorn, Claudia Zerle-Elsäßer","doi":"10.1177/09589287241251993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241251993","url":null,"abstract":"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 in their early adulthood as an example of (de-)familization policies (Lohmann and Zagel, 2016)) predict paternal involvement today. To measure paternal involvement, we create an indicator for involvement that covers Lamb et al. (1985) three aspects of direct interaction, responsibility, and availability and the fact that a father has taken paternal leave for at least one of his children or not. We use the fact that a substantial proportion of the fathers in the German, national survey AID:A 2019 (Kuger et al., 2020) were socialized in another welfare state regime (6.3% of fathers have a direct and another 13.5% have an indirect migration background (their fathers were born in another country) covering birth cohorts from the 1970s to the 1990s; total N = 1053). We then add context-related information on their (fathers’ and grandfathers’) countries of origin from the OECD family database and estimate an SEM model to test potential direct and indirect effects. We find that more educated fathers who experienced extended parental leave regulations are more involved fathers today. Our results support, thus, that welfare state conditions influence individuals’ behaviour while education is a relevant moderator in this relationship.","PeriodicalId":47919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Social Policy","volume":"89 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141064100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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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 超越权衡：探索历史长河中养老和健康领域公共和私人福利供给不断变化的相互作用

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-05-04 DOI: 10.1177/09589287241245656

Alexander Horn, Sebastian Kohl

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