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An illiberal welfare state emerging? Welfare efforts and trajectories under democratic backsliding in Hungary and Turkey 一个不自由的福利国家正在出现?匈牙利和土耳其民主倒退下的福利努力和轨迹

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-21 DOI: 10.1177/09589287221141365

Dorottya Szikra, K. Öktem

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引用次数: 2

Can a federal minimum wage alleviate poverty and income inequality? Ex-post and simulation evidence from Germany 联邦最低工资能缓解贫困和收入不平等吗？来自德国的事后和模拟证据

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.1177/09589287221144233

Teresa Backhaus, Kai-Uwe Müller

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Attitudes toward healthcare performance in Europe, 2002–2017: How absolute and relative measures can reveal different patterns 2002-2017年欧洲对医疗保健绩效的态度:绝对和相对度量如何揭示不同的模式

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-13 DOI: 10.1177/09589287221141366

I. Moolla, P. Lambert

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The persistence of legal uncertainty on EU citizens' access to social benefits in Germany. 在德国，欧盟公民获得社会福利的法律不确定性持续存在。

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Epub Date: 2022-05-16 DOI: 10.1177/09589287221095028

Angie Gago, Constantin Hruschka

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Comparative mainstreaming? Mapping the uses of the comparative method in social policy, sociology and political science since the 1970s 比较主流?绘制自20世纪70年代以来比较方法在社会政策、社会学和政治学中的应用

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-10-25 DOI: 10.1177/09589287221128438

Emanuele Ferragina, C. Deeming

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引用次数: 3

What distinguishes radical right welfare chauvinism? Excluding different migrant groups from the welfare state 激进的右翼福利沙文主义的区别是什么？将不同的移民群体排除在福利国家之外

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-10-04 DOI: 10.1177/09589287221128441

Juliana Chueri

{"title":"What distinguishes radical right welfare chauvinism? Excluding different migrant groups from the welfare state","authors":"Juliana Chueri","doi":"10.1177/09589287221128441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287221128441","url":null,"abstract":"Literature posits that mainstream right-wing parties have adopted restrictive positions on immigrants’ entitlements to social rights to avoid losing votes to populist radical right-wing parties (PRRPs). Although studies recognize that this co-option is only partial, we know little about the remaining differences between PRRPs’ and mainstream right-wing parties’ welfare chauvinism strategies. This article fills this knowledge gap by comparing how mainstream and populist right-wing governments approach different migrant groups’ entitlements to social rights. The article combines an event history analysis of the Determinants of International Migration Policy database with a qualitative examination of the indexation of family benefits in selected European Countries to compare PRRPs’ and mainstream parties’ impact on the social rights of different migrant groups. The results reveal that the main difference between PRRPs and mainstream right-wing parties in Western Europe is the formers’ support for restrictions on intra-EU migrants’ entitlements to social benefits. This finding has important implications for the study of the European social policy agenda, as PRRPs’ increasing politicization of intra-EU migrants’ access to social rights may compromise the future of intra-European solidarity.","PeriodicalId":47919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Social Policy","volume":"33 1","pages":"84 - 100"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44806871","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}

引用次数: 1

Nice work if you can get it: Labour market pathways of Belgian service voucher workers 如果你能做到，那就干得好：比利时服务券工人的劳动力市场途径

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/09589287221128440

Dries Lens, I. Marx, Jarmila Oslejová, Ninke Mussche

{"title":"Nice work if you can get it: Labour market pathways of Belgian service voucher workers","authors":"Dries Lens, I. Marx, Jarmila Oslejová, Ninke Mussche","doi":"10.1177/09589287221128440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287221128440","url":null,"abstract":"Seen as an alternative to precarious, informal work or no job at all, several European countries have started to use tax money to boost the demand for domestic services. This article asks whether this makes sense. We consider the case of the heavily subsidized and highly popular service voucher scheme in Belgium. Close to a quarter of households there employ domestic service workers under the scheme, making it in relative terms the largest scheme of its kind in Europe. The workers employed under the scheme enjoy extensive labour and social security rights. Does the service voucher scheme provide a model to be followed if we care about labour market exclusion and precariousness or is this a case of institutionalized second-tier work? To that end we trace workers’ labour market pathways over a considerable length of time. We find that a substantial share of women find a way out of vulnerable labour market situations through the scheme. However, a very significant number enter from steady employment. This is clearly at odds with the original objective of offering a stepping stone to women with a precarious labour market position. The scheme also plays an ambivalent role in the labour market integration process of immigrant newcomers. At least in part, the Belgian scheme can be seen as a case of policy overshooting. We suggest some potential improvements.","PeriodicalId":47919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Social Policy","volume":"33 1","pages":"117 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41781774","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}

引用次数: 1

The welfare state in really hard times: Political trust and satisfaction with the German healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic. 艰难时期的福利国家:新冠肺炎大流行期间对德国医疗体系的政治信任和满意度

IF 2.7 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/09589287221085922

Marius R Busemeyer

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Sometimes needs change minds: Interests and values as determinants of attitudes towards state support for the self-employed during the COVID-19 crisis. 有时需要改变想法:在2019冠状病毒病危机期间，利益和价值观是对国家支持个体经营者态度的决定因素。

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Epub Date: 2022-07-20 DOI: 10.1177/09589287221106977

Giuliano Bonoli, Flavia Fossati, Mia Gandenberger, Carlo Michael Knotz

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引用次数: 2

Learning losses and educational inequalities in Europe: Mapping the potential consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. 欧洲的学习损失和教育不平等：绘制新冠肺炎危机的潜在后果

IF 3 1区社会学

Journal of European Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/09589287221091687

Zsuzsa Blaskó, Patricia da Costa, Sylke V Schnepf

{"title":"Learning losses and educational inequalities in Europe: Mapping the potential consequences of the COVID-19 crisis.","authors":"Zsuzsa Blaskó, Patricia da Costa, Sylke V Schnepf","doi":"10.1177/09589287221091687","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09589287221091687","url":null,"abstract":"It is widely discussed that the pandemic has impacted educational inequalities across the world. However, in contrast to data on health or unemployment, data on education outcomes are not timely. Hence, we have extremely limited knowledge about pandemic-related learning losses at the national and cross-national levels. As it might take years to get suitable comparative data, this study uses the latest large-scale international achievement survey from before the pandemic, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study 2019, to answer two research questions. First, which European countries are most likely to have experienced higher learning loss among their children? Second, which European countries have most likely experienced the greatest increases in learning inequalities? Results based on 4th graders' school achievements indicate that educational inequalities between and within countries are likely to have augmented substantially throughout Europe. Some European countries are probably already facing an education crisis.","PeriodicalId":47919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Social Policy","volume":"32 1","pages":"361-375"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9149663/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43610587","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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