Norwegian Activation Reform on a Wave of Wider Welfare State Change

Gubrium, Erika; Harsløf, Ivan; Lødemel, Ivar

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“…This probably reflects an increasing concern about rising welfare expenditures and a general shift toward more emphasis on activation in social policies; see, e.g., Gubrium et al (2014).…”

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Can welfare conditionality combat high school dropout?

Hernaes

Markussen²,

Røed³

2017

Labour Economics

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“…This probably reflects an increasing concern about rising welfare expenditures and a general shift toward more emphasis on activation in social policies; see, e.g., Gubrium et al (2014).…”

Section: Control Excludedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can welfare conditionality combat high school dropout?

Hernaes

Markussen²,

Røed³

2017

Labour Economics

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“…Nevertheless, the difficulties service users encounter in entering the labour market constitute a challenge that reaches beyond their individual barriers (e.g., lack of skills and education, family and/or housing situations or health problems) and into structural, institutional, and organisational domains. Previous research suggests that broad framework laws (Thorén, 2008;Brodkin, 2013;Gubrium et al, 2014) and local interpretations of national activation policy (Fossestøl et al, 2016a(Fossestøl et al, , 2016bNothdurfter, 2016;Jacobsson et al, 2017) make activation a diverse field of practice. Furthermore, organisational structures (Andreassen and Fossestøl, 2011;Raeymaeckers and Dierckx, 2013), standardised procedures (Fuertes and Lindsay, 2016), and conflicting professional interests (Røysum, 2009(Røysum, , 2013van Berkel and Aa, 2012), as well as personal understandings of activation (Nothdurfter, 2016), influence labour activation practice.…”

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From Problems to Barriers: A Bottom-Up Perspective on the Institutional Framing of a Labour Activation Programme

Hansen¹

2019

Social Policy and Society

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Human resource development (HRD) approaches aim to increase service users’ labour market prospects through training and upskilling. However, research on activation policy implementation suggests that individualised, tailored measures may be difficult to implement because of organisational structures, standardised procedures, contradictory professional interests, and broad framework laws. This qualitative study explored the institutional framing of the Norwegian Qualification Programme and how that framing created barriers in service users’ trajectories towards labour market inclusion. The study applied a bottom-up perspective to analyse how these barriers are entangled in a multidimensional web of interrelated and sometimes contradictory relations. Highlighting the service users’ perspective, the study aimed to examine how institutional framing may interfere with the activation policy goal of qualifying service users for the labour market. The results point to how institutional framing governs local practice and creates barriers that ultimately may impede activation policy goals.

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“…Since the mid-1990s, the Norwegian social assistance programme has undergone reforms toward more intensive use of conditionality and activation, such that means-tested social assistance is paid out conditional on participation in some form of activation like community work or participation in job-training programmes (see Gubrium et al 2014 andHernaes et al 2017). This reform process has primarily been targeted at young welfare clients, but it has also singled out immigrants as a prioritized group.…”

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Integrating Immigrants into the Nordic Labour Markets

2019

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Norwegian Activation Reform on a Wave of Wider Welfare State Change

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Can welfare conditionality combat high school dropout?

Can welfare conditionality combat high school dropout?

From Problems to Barriers: A Bottom-Up Perspective on the Institutional Framing of a Labour Activation Programme

Integrating Immigrants into the Nordic Labour Markets

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