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The impact of health impairments on employment entry and the quality of employment among basic income support recipients in Germany 德国基本收入补助领取者的健康缺陷对就业和就业质量的影响

IF 2 3区社会学

Journal of Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-05-09 DOI: 10.1017/s0047279424000059

Cordula Zabel

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Understanding the expansion of social control and helping professionals as unwilling agents of the state: The passing of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act in the United States 了解社会控制的扩张和作为国家不情愿的代理人的帮助专业人员：美国通过《防止虐待儿童及治疗法

IF 2 3区社会学

Journal of Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-05-09 DOI: 10.1017/s0047279424000047

Abigail Williams-Butler, Shari Cunningham, María Gandarilla Ocampo, Kate Golden Guzman, Alicia Mendez

{"title":"Understanding the expansion of social control and helping professionals as unwilling agents of the state: The passing of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act in the United States","authors":"Abigail Williams-Butler, Shari Cunningham, María Gandarilla Ocampo, Kate Golden Guzman, Alicia Mendez","doi":"10.1017/s0047279424000047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047279424000047","url":null,"abstract":"It is widely known that those in the helping professions are mandated to report suspected incidences of child maltreatment. However, few are aware of the historical resistance to mandated reporting that helping professionals demonstrated before the passing of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) of 1974 and the associated federal mandates that compelled helping professionals to engage in mandated reporting, oftentimes against their will. By analysing historical policy documents through a grounded theory approach, the authors identified three themes that describe the rationale for the passage of CAPTA: (1) identifying national evidence of child abuse; (2) resistance to intrusion of the helping professional-client relationship; and (3) the necessity of immunity waivers for those who reported instances of child abuse and misdemeanor punishment for those who failed to report such instances. In light of conversations around abolishing or reforming child protective services, it is important to understand how the first federal child protective services policy in the United States originated and how these regulations embedded social control into the foundation of the helping professional-client relationship, thus turning helping professionals into unwilling agents of the state. Implications of mandated reporting, including introducing a penal aspect to the helping professional-client relationship, are also explored.","PeriodicalId":51438,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Policy","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140926901","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}

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Paternalism in Australian parliamentary debate: the case of drug testing social security recipients 澳大利亚议会辩论中的家长制：社会保障受助人药物测试案例

IF 2 3区社会学

Journal of Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-02-12 DOI: 10.1017/s0047279423000661

Katherine Curchin, Thomas Weight, Alison Ritter

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Which training leads to employment? The effectiveness of varying types of training programmes for unemployed jobseekers in Flanders 哪种培训能带来就业？法兰德斯失业求职者不同类型培训计划的有效性

IF 2 3区社会学

Journal of Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-01-29 DOI: 10.1017/s0047279423000648

Jonas Wood, Karel Neels, Sunčica Vujić

{"title":"Which training leads to employment? The effectiveness of varying types of training programmes for unemployed jobseekers in Flanders","authors":"Jonas Wood, Karel Neels, Sunčica Vujić","doi":"10.1017/s0047279423000648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047279423000648","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the large body of ALMP evaluations focussing on isolated training programmes for unemployed jobseekers, our understanding of potential reasons for (in)effectiveness remains limited. Specific training programmes aim to remediate particular supply- or demand-side barriers to employment experienced by targeted jobseekers. Consequently, this study unpacks training into four different types: (I) general classroom training (GCT) to enhance motivation and job search skills, (II) occupation-specific classroom training (OCT) addressing gaps in human capital, (III) non-contractual workplace training (NCWT) combining human capital acquisition with workplace experience, and (IV) contractual workplace training (CWT) additionally including a temporary wage subsidy to reduce hiring costs for employers. Using large-scale longitudinal register data, dynamic propensity score matching, and hazard models indicate positive effects of OCT participation, and particularly NCWT programmes allowing human and social capital accumulation in a workplace setting, on the transition into (stable) regular employment. In contrast, the non-effects for GCT participants highlight the need for more follow-up programmes, and the fact that, after controlling for the selective recruitment by employers of unemployed jobseekers with relatively strong profiles, CWT programme participants show moderate, short-lived positive effects which might inspire policymakers to reconsider programme assignment in light of cream-skimming by employers.","PeriodicalId":51438,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Policy","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139581463","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}

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Housing affordability and poverty in Europe: on the deteriorating position of market renters 欧洲的住房负担能力与贫困：关于市场租房者日益恶化的处境

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Journal of Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-01-25 DOI: 10.1017/s0047279423000703

Rod Hick, Marco Pomati, Mark Stephens

{"title":"Housing affordability and poverty in Europe: on the deteriorating position of market renters","authors":"Rod Hick, Marco Pomati, Mark Stephens","doi":"10.1017/s0047279423000703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047279423000703","url":null,"abstract":"There are growing concerns about housing affordability throughout Europe. Recent studies by Housing Europe and the OECD have suggested that we are witnessing a generalised deterioration in housing affordability, while other studies point to worsening housing affordability for specific groups, such as renters or low-income households. The aim of this paper is to explore trends in, and incidences and determinants of, housing affordability in a comparative European context over the period 2010 to 2018. To do this we analyse data from the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey. We examine trends across different measures of housing affordability; examine its association with a variety of socio-economic characteristics and explore country-level differences in housing affordability problems. Our study finds that despite claims of worsening housing affordability, affordability measures show little sign of generalised deterioration over the period in question but that risks of affordability problems have become more concentrated on market renters during this period. At the country level, we find that gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and the at-risk-of-poverty rate are associated with housing affordability problems both between countries as well as within countries over time, while housing allowance coverage and rent regulation stringency are associated with affordability problems between countries.","PeriodicalId":51438,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Policy","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139581474","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}

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Social and environmental protection: the effects of social insurance generosity on the acceptance of material sacrifices for the sake of environmental protection 社会和环境保护：社会保险的慷慨程度对接受为环境保护而做出的物质牺牲的影响

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Journal of Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-01-23 DOI: 10.1017/s004727942300065x

Sverker Sjöstrand

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Beyond individual responsibility – towards a relational understanding of financial resilience through participatory research and design 超越个人责任--通过参与式研究和设计实现对财务复原力的关系理解

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Journal of Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-01-23 DOI: 10.1017/s0047279423000685

Anne Angsten Clark, Sara Davies, Richard Owen, Keir Williams

{"title":"Beyond individual responsibility – towards a relational understanding of financial resilience through participatory research and design","authors":"Anne Angsten Clark, Sara Davies, Richard Owen, Keir Williams","doi":"10.1017/s0047279423000685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047279423000685","url":null,"abstract":"This paper contributes to an increasingly critical assessment of a policy framing of ‘financial resilience’ that focuses on individual responsibility and financial capability. Using a participatory research and design process, we construct a ground-up understanding of financial resilience that acknowledges not only an individual’s actions, but the contextual environment in which they are situated, and how those relate to one another. We inductively identify four inter-connected dimensions of relational financial resilience: infrastructure (housing, health, and childcare), financial and economic factors (income, expenses, and financial services and strategies), social factors (motivation and community and family), and the institutional environment (policy and local community groups, support and advice services). Consequently, we recommend that social policies conceptualise financial resilience in relational terms, as a cross-cutting policy priority, rather than being solely a facet of individual financial capability.","PeriodicalId":51438,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Policy","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139581467","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}

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Systems thinking for better social policy: a case study in financial wellbeing 系统思维促进更好的社会政策：财务福利案例研究

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Journal of Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-01-18 DOI: 10.1017/s0047279423000727

Jeremiah Thomas Brown, Jack Noone, Fanny Salignac

{"title":"Systems thinking for better social policy: a case study in financial wellbeing","authors":"Jeremiah Thomas Brown, Jack Noone, Fanny Salignac","doi":"10.1017/s0047279423000727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047279423000727","url":null,"abstract":"Social problems are becoming increasingly complex. Policymakers, thus, cannot solve these issues with a single policy instrument. For example, while decades of research have examined the individual factors that influence financial stress, less is known about how organisations, social structures, policies, social norms, and large-scale events interact to affect one’s financial wellbeing. Using a systems approach as the basis of our conceptualisation, we put forward a theoretical model to help policymakers and practitioners to address the root causes of such complex issues. We argue that extant literature does not adequately conceptualise the complex relationships between the micro, meso, and macro-level drivers of financial wellbeing. As a result, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners are under-resourced when it comes to designing interventions to improve individuals’ financial situations. We use the examples of affordable housing and social security policy to highlight the utility of a systems approach. In doing so we contribute to ongoing debates by putting forward a model of financial wellbeing in the context of Western countries (specifically Australia) that can better incorporate the moderating, mediating, and reciprocal relationships between financial wellbeing and its drivers.","PeriodicalId":51438,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Policy","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139518339","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}

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The gig economy, platform work, and social policy: food delivery workers’ occupational welfare dilemma in Hong Kong 打工经济、平台工作与社会政策：香港送餐员的职业福利困境

IF 2 3区社会学

Journal of Social Policy Pub Date : 2024-01-04 DOI: 10.1017/s0047279423000673

T. Au‐Yeung, Chris King-Chi Chan, Cham Kit Keith Ming, Wing Yin Anna Tsui

{"title":"The gig economy, platform work, and social policy: food delivery workers’ occupational welfare dilemma in Hong Kong","authors":"T. Au‐Yeung, Chris King-Chi Chan, Cham Kit Keith Ming, Wing Yin Anna Tsui","doi":"10.1017/s0047279423000673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047279423000673","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Previous literature suggests that the gig economy and platform work pose challenges to social policy, including the welfare entitlement issues caused by workers’ ambiguous occupational status. Focusing on the government’s regulatory role, this study investigates platform workers’ occupational welfare (OW) by conducting in-depth interviews with forty-six food delivery workers in Hong Kong. The evidence reveals workers’ occupational risks resulting from platforms’ algorithmic devices and the misclassification of independent contractors. The denied access to private occupational pensions was considered acceptable by workers because of the perceived irrelevance of OW. While interviewees emphasised time-based flexibility as a key intangible benefit, the shifting business costs to self-employed workers was highlighted as a disadvantage. A policy dilemma appears between strengthening state regulation/protection and maintaining workers’ temporal autonomy. Arguably, the platformisation of work is translated into the gigification of OW, disentitling platform workers’ employer-provided welfare and labour protection. Platforms possess monopolising power over workers, the state displays weak regulatory power to monitor platforms, and workers’ occupational citizenship is undermined by the government’s minimal intervention. This study contributes to the literature by linking OW to platform work and revealing how the gig economy reshapes social policy, empirically offering a worker-centred analysis of OW in Hong Kong.","PeriodicalId":51438,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Policy","volume":"33 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139385415","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}

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A dynamic perspective on profiling financial-aid eligibility: the case of South Africa 从动态视角剖析财政援助资格：南非的案例

IF 2 3区社会学

Journal of Social Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-12 DOI: 10.1017/s0047279423000636

Emma Whitelaw, Nicola Branson, Murray Leibbrandt

{"title":"A dynamic perspective on profiling financial-aid eligibility: the case of South Africa","authors":"Emma Whitelaw, Nicola Branson, Murray Leibbrandt","doi":"10.1017/s0047279423000636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047279423000636","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The sustainable funding of tertiary education is a subject of significant policy debate worldwide. In South Africa, the need to balance equitable access within a constrained fiscal environment has been a complex challenge. A legacy of racially segregated educational opportunities, together with student activism and protests, has shaped the political economy surrounding tertiary education funding. Policymakers continue to be faced with the challenge of funding students whose household income is too high to meet state financial aid eligibility, yet who struggle to afford tuition and accommodation expenses. In this context, exploring a policy instrument that differentiates students based on multidimensional socioeconomic need is critical. We motivate for a differentiated policy instrument that considers economic uncertainty of households as a dimension of socioeconomic need. A purpose of our paper is therefore to illustrate that income mobility can contribute to household vulnerability, and therefore to funding need. Household income mobility is estimated using a multivariate probit model that explicitly accounts for endogeneity of initial conditions, unobserved heterogeneity, and non-random panel attrition. We operationalise this model as a relevant empirical tool for analysing and understanding the implementation, expansion, and targeting of social policy more generally.</p>","PeriodicalId":51438,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Policy","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138572215","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}

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