Activation and ‘coercion’ among Swedish social assistance claimants with different work barriers and socio‐demographic characteristics: What is the logic?

Nybom, Jenny

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2397.2011.00858.x

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“…These examples may exemplify the male breadwinner identity as one expecting and aiming at hard outcomes (paid work), valuing a concrete task-oriented approach, versus the image of a female identity as one expecting and aiming at intermediate outcomes (soft skills and strengthened self-efficacy), and therefore to a higher degree values a softer approach (care and relational work). Further, this may support previous research indicating that social workers might be approaching male and female participants differently (Kullberg, 2004(Kullberg, , 2005Nybom 2013;Tabin & Perriard, 2016).…”

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“…Thus, service users in activation are heterogeneous with extensive, complex problems that require close, comprehensive follow-up. Therefore, social workers 1 play an important role in activation programmes, and gendered views on work, employment and family care may influence their approaches (Baum, 2016;Betzelt, 2008;Djuve, 2008;Kullberg, 2004Kullberg, , 2005Nybom 2013;Tabin & Perriard, 2016; see also Djuve, Kavli, & Hagelund, 2011). Service users' expectations for the programme may also play a role.…”

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Recognition and gendered identity constructions in labour activation

Hansen

2017

Int J Soc Welfare

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Few studies have considered how labour activation programmes affect participants’ identity construction, particularly from a gender comparison perspective. Using qualitative data and recognition theories, this exploratory study of the Norwegian Qualification Program examined how gender may affect labour activation recipients’ identity construction and sense of social value. The findings suggest that women experience labour activation as an enabling process, facilitating an enhanced sense of social value and status. In contrast, men experience either no such change or a diminution of their sense of worth and status. The study shows how cultural values regarding gender, work and employment are embedded in social work practice and activation policy implementation. Underscoring how activation may be intertwined in such cultural values and norms, the study calls for further research to understand these processes, as they may affect outcomes in labour activation policy.

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Recognition and gendered identity constructions in labour activation

Hansen

2017

Int J Soc Welfare

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“…Despite more universal activation efforts since the reforms, women participate in most ALMPs less often than men, especially in western Germany. This gender logic of activation with lower female participation rates has also been observed internationally (Cavaco, Fougère, & Pouget, ; Nybom, ). Lower participation rates are not necessarily linked to lower employment effects, as seen in Table , for example for One‐Euro‐ Jobs.…”

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Activation programmes for women with a partner in Germany: Challenge or replication of traditional gender roles

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2016

Int J Soc Welfare

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In 2005, Germany implemented major welfare benefit reforms that encourage an adult worker model of the family. In this study, we hypothesised that, despite these reforms, women's assignments to activation programmes would in practice still tend to replicate the degree of labour market attachment to which they had become accustomed relative to their partner in the past. We compared programme entries between women in former male breadwinner, dual earner, no‐earner and female breadwinner households and applied event‐history analysis to large‐scale administrative data. Our findings showed that in western Germany – but not in eastern Germany – women's assignments to activation programmes indeed replicated their prior labour market attachment relative to their partner. Key Practitioner Message: • Among women receiving Unemployment Benefit II in Germany, women with partners participate in activation programmes less often; • This tendency applies especially to western German women with less employment experience and lower former earnings than their partners; • A framework should be devised to inquire about previously non‐employed women's interests in ALMP participation and offer them such opportunities.

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“…Such logic can be contrasted to the 'creaming' strategy of improving the outcomes of activation measures by focusing on clients that are recognized as most likely to enter employment (cf. Nybom 2011). In this context, it is important to keep in mind that social assistance transfers only allow for a minimum level of living compared with the majority population of Sweden, and do not reduce poverty and inequality in any broader sense (cf.…”

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Intersectional patterns of social assistance eligibility in Sweden

Hussénius

2019

Nordic Social Work Research

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This study examines patterns in social worker decisions on social assistance eligibility in Sweden. Focusing on intersections between applicants' gender, country of birth and family situation, factors that statistically anticipate decisions on granting assistance to individuals from different sub-groups were explored. The sample comprises 423 applications and four sets of modified Poisson regression models were conducted. The results strengthen the impression of social assistance assessments as a practice marked by the professionals' categorizations. In line with previous research, social workers seem to act upon, and reinforce, a male breadwinner model by putting more emphasis on men's efforts to establish self-support. Female applicants, in turn, are seemingly less likely to be granted assistance if they are assessed as having a problem with abuse of alcohol or illicit drugs. Also, having a family seems altogether to have a negative impact on women's chances of approval. When considering gender and country of birth, decisions on social assistance eligibility largely reflect patterns of unemployment.

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Activation and ‘coercion’ among Swedish social assistance claimants with different work barriers and socio‐demographic characteristics: What is the logic?

Cited by 18 publications

References 37 publications

Recognition and gendered identity constructions in labour activation

Recognition and gendered identity constructions in labour activation

Activation programmes for women with a partner in Germany: Challenge or replication of traditional gender roles

Intersectional patterns of social assistance eligibility in Sweden

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