Back to Work after Incapacity Benefit: Differences between Ethnic Minority and Native Dutch Workers

Snel, Erik; Linder, Frank

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9515.2008.00637.x

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“…At the very least, coaching methods offer more opportunities to increase labour market participation and thereby decrease work incapacity. In the end, all countries prefer stimulating labour participation over focusing on gate‐keeping as a strategy to solve problems in the social security system (OECD 2010; Snel and Linder 2008; Van Berkel and Van der Aa 2005; Høgelund 2003; OECD 2003).…”

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Controlling Access to Sick Leave Programmes: Practices of Physicians in the Netherlands

Meershoek

2011

Soc Policy Adm

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Policymakers in industrialized countries attempt to contain the costs of sick leave and disability schemes by limiting access to include medically proven cases only. However, a person's incapacity to work cannot be fully deduced by referring to his or her medical condition. It is the question whether using more restrictive eligibility criteria that focus on medical evidence actually reduces the number of benefit recipients and makes access to employee benefit arrangements fairer. This ethnographic study shows that physicians working in Dutch illness certification practices use alternative methods to restrict access to sick leave programmes. Doctors do not control their clients in a restrictive sense of the word. Rather, they exercise control over their clients by inciting them to internalize norms about being active and responsible. While we do not claim that this is good per se, we do contend that this control style may have some advantages over and above more restrictive control mechanisms. Elaborating on policy that supports this alternative notion of control, therefore, seems worthwhile.

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Controlling Access to Sick Leave Programmes: Practices of Physicians in the Netherlands

Meershoek

2011

Soc Policy Adm

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“…• Combined work and disability benefit programmes in the Netherlands (Snel and Linder, 2008) also yield positive employment effects for the foreign-and native-born, according to research.…”

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Labour market integration of immigrants and their children: Developing, activating and using skills

2014

International Migration Outlook 2014

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Immigrants now account for more than 115 million people in the OECD, which represents almost 10% of the total population. Their share has increased in virtually all OECD countries over the past decade, and children of immigrants are also entering the labour market in growing numbers. Against this backdrop, the integration of immigrants and their offspring has become a prime policy objective for OECD countries, and a vast array of different integration policies have been adopted over the past fifteen years. Among the various challenges for integration, perhaps the most important one is releasing the full skills potential of immigrants and their offspring. Skills of immigrants that are not used represent a wasted resource at a time when economies are increasingly less able to afford such waste, and may also impact negatively on social cohesion.The chapter takes stock of the broad issues involved in the labour market integration of immigrants and their offspring from a human capital perspective, as well as of the policies at hand to free their full skills potential through the identification and utilisation, the activation, and the development of their skills. It builds on the extensive work of the OECD on integration issues, together with new evidence. The chapter first identifies the main issues involved, followed by a discussion of the instruments and policies in OECD countries along the three pillars identified by the OECD Skills Strategy -namely using, developing and activating skills.The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law.

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Better at work: Activation of partially disabled workers in the Netherlands

Knijn¹,

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2014

Alter

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a b s t r a c tThis article presents a unique analysis of how activation agencies in the Netherlands cope with partially disabled employees on the basis of tailor-made individual assessments, representing and executing the shift towards a policy paradigm in activation to work-a synchronic instead of diachronic approach to disability and employability. We focus on two aspects of the administrative process of implementing the new policy: transparency and conditionality. Questions are: do individualised, customised assessments of disability benefits, in contrast to standardised ones, contribute to transparency in assessing partly disabled employees, and how do these workers experience and cope with the conditionality of the benefits? The experienced reality of the targeted partially disabled workers is elaborated upon to understand the implementation of an individualised system. We conclude that the gap between social policy and its implementation needs reconsideration. 283 Mots clés : Allocations Travailleurs handicapés Activation Pays-Bas Transparence Conditions d'attributionr é s u m é Cet article analyse la manière dont les intermédiaires de l'emploi accompagnent aux Pays-Bas les salariés partiellement inaptes sur la base d'une évaluation individualisée. Ce nouveau type d'accompagnement constitue un changement de paradigme dans les politiques publiques d'activation, par une approche synchronique plutôt que diachronique du handicap et de l'employabilité. Nous nous concentrons sur deux aspects de la procédure administrative résultant de cette nouvelle politique : la transparence et les conditions d'attribution. Nos questionnements sont les suivants : ces évaluations individualisées et adaptées des allocations liées au handicap, par contraste avec des attributions standardisées, contribuent-elles à la transparence de la procédure pour des salariés partiellement inaptes ? Comment ces travailleurs appréhendent-ils le caractère conditionnel de l'attribution des prestations ? La réalité éprouvée par les personnes visées est examinée en détail pour mieux comprendre la mise en oeuvre d'une politique individualisée. Nous concluons que le décalage entre cette politique sociale et sa mise en oeuvre demande sa reconsidération.

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Back to Work after Incapacity Benefit: Differences between Ethnic Minority and Native Dutch Workers

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Controlling Access to Sick Leave Programmes: Practices of Physicians in the Netherlands

Controlling Access to Sick Leave Programmes: Practices of Physicians in the Netherlands

Labour market integration of immigrants and their children: Developing, activating and using skills

Better at work: Activation of partially disabled workers in the Netherlands

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