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Lødemel, Ivar

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“…Beginning with the introduction of Jobseeker’s Allowance and followed by a staggering range of interventions, including the New Deals and the Work Programme, unemployed people, disabled people and lone parents have all experienced mounting pressures to find and secure paid work. The UK is far from alone in intensifying work-related demands, as various forms of activation have been implemented across most advanced welfare states (Lødemel and Moreira, 2014). The end result is a political climate in which parties of both the Left and the Right have pushed paid work as the solution to all manner of social, economic and moral problems.…”

Section: Discussion: Challenging the Work Ethicmentioning

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Unemployment, wellbeing and the power of the work ethic: Implications for social policy

Sage

2018

Critical Social Policy

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Unemployment is associated with a range of health and social problems, such as poor physical health and wellbeing. Welfare state research has recently considered how social policies can ameliorate the harmful effects of unemployment. This article argues that such policy suggestions disregard the role of the work ethic in shaping the experience of unemployment. In societies that glorify employment as a signifier of identity and status, it is unsurprising that those without employment suffer. Previous research supports this view, showing how subscription to the work ethic is associated with wellbeing amongst unemployed people. Original analysis of the European Values Study confirms the importance of the work ethic, showing how unemployed people with weaker work ethics have significantly higher life satisfaction than those with stronger work ethics. The article concludes that the most effective way of dealing with the deleterious effects of unemployment is to challenge the centrality of employment in contemporary societies.

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Section: Discussion: Challenging the Work Ethicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unemployment, wellbeing and the power of the work ethic: Implications for social policy

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2018

Critical Social Policy

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“…Often the aim has been a comparison across countries intended to detect and explain cross-national variation (Barbier and Ludwig-Mayerhofer, 2004; Bonoli, 2010; Clasen and Clegg, 2003, 2006; Dingeldey, 2007, Fossati, 2017; van Berkel et al ., 2017a). A widely used distinction is between approaches that mainly rely on incentives and sanctions, and approaches that advance human capital investment (Bonoli, 2010, 2011, 2012; Brodkin and Marston, 2013; Dingeldey, 2007; Filges et al , 2015; Kenworthy, 2010; Lødemel and Moreira, 2014; Lødemel and Trickey, 2001; Smedslund et al , 2006; Welshman, 2010; Williams, 2010). This distinction is conceptualised in several different ways.…”

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Contrasting Supply-side, Demand-side and Combined Approaches to Labour Market Integration

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2018

J. Soc. Pol.

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In social policy discussions about activation or ALMP (Active Labour Market Policies), most attention is paid to supply-side approaches, directed towards jobless individuals. In these discussions, little attention is given to demand-side approaches aimed at activating employers, or combined workplace-oriented approaches that combine supply and demand-side elements. The aim of this article is to introduce demand-side and combined approaches developed within the fields of disability policy and vocational rehabilitation to scholarly discussions about activation and ALMP.By comparing these three approaches, we show that demand-side and combined approaches challenge key assumptions underlying the dominant supply-side approaches. They do so by representing different views of a) work – as a right instead of a duty; b) the problem of reduced work capacity – not as individual failure, but rather as a prejudice in attitudes among employers or as a gap between capacities and demands; c) the employers and the labour market – as transformable instead of fixed.Supply-side, demand-side and combined workplace-oriented approaches share the aim of labour market integration; however, their developments seem to have taken place largely in isolation from each other. We argue that when brought together they could form a more comprehensive base for further development of labour market integration.

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“…This more explicit association of ALMP instruments with the reform agenda around core pillars of the welfare state, as conventionally conceived, sparked a growing interest in ALMP among social policy scholars and led to a proliferation of comparative studies. Some of this work has been normative, pointing to links between enhanced benefit conditionality and ALMP as indicators of general developments towards ‘workfare’ (e.g., Lødemel and Trickey, 2001; Lødemel and Moreira, 2014). Other studies aimed to identify particular national styles of activation (e.g., Barbier, 2001), or sought to understand variation in the timing and pace of reforms across countries (e.g., Clasen and Clegg, 2006; Daguerre, 2007; Weishaupt, 2011).…”

Section: The Growing Interest In Almp In Comparative Social Policymentioning

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Comparative Social Policy Analysis and Active Labour Market Policy: Putting Quality before Quantity

2015

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In the past decade, active labour market policy (ALMP) has become a major topic in comparative social policy analysis, with scholars exploiting cross-national variation to seek to identify the determinants of policy development in this central area of the ‘new welfare state’. In this paper, we argue that better integration of this policy field into social policy scholarship requires rather more critical engagement with considerable methodological, conceptual and theoretical challenges in order to analyse these policies comparatively. Most fundamentally, rather more reflection is needed on what the substantially relevant dimensions of variation in ALMP from a social policy perspective actually are, as well as enhanced efforts to ensure that it is those that are being analysed and compared.

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Cited by 12 publications

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Unemployment, wellbeing and the power of the work ethic: Implications for social policy

Unemployment, wellbeing and the power of the work ethic: Implications for social policy

Contrasting Supply-side, Demand-side and Combined Approaches to Labour Market Integration

Comparative Social Policy Analysis and Active Labour Market Policy: Putting Quality before Quantity

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