Parity of participation in liberal welfare states: human rights, neoliberalism, disability and employment

Harris, Sarah Parker; Owen, Randall; Gould, Robert

doi:10.1080/09687599.2012.679022

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“…In fact, comparative studies find employment rates of disabled workers to be relatively high in Nordic countries. In the U.S. or the United Kingdom, disabled workers are more often unemployed or experience other forms of labor force exclusion (Holland et al, 2011;Parker Harris, Owen, & Gould, 2012). This phenomenon may be explained on the one hand by differences in the share of individuals receiving disability benefitswhich is higher in the U.S. than in Sweden and Denmark-and on the other hand by public spending on disability and illness cash benefits, vocational rehabilitation, and employment programs, which is substantially higher in Sweden and Denmark than in the U.S. and Chile (see Table 1).…”

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Retirement Trajectories in Countries with Flexible Retirement Policies but Different Welfare Regimes

Baumann

Madero-Cabib

2019

Journal of Aging & Social Policy

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We examine how both the welfare regime and health affect retirement trajectories in countries with flexible retirement policies using longitudinal methods and harmonized panel data from two social-democratic (Sweden and Denmark) and two liberal welfare regimes (Chile and the United States). An early retirement trajectory, which represents retirement in the early 60s, is the most frequent in all countries, although it is less prevalent in liberal than in social-democratic regimes. Adverse health conditions are more frequent among early retirees in liberal but not in socialdemocratic regimes. Overall, we do not find evidence for an inciting effect of flexible retirement policies on working life extension. However, welfare regimes substantially affect late-life labor force participation.

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Retirement Trajectories in Countries with Flexible Retirement Policies but Different Welfare Regimes

Baumann

Madero-Cabib

2019

Journal of Aging & Social Policy

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“…Service providers are being tasked with compliance and breach of income support policy procedures, whilst building relationships and delivering clientfocused service and placing people into work as required under the disability employment policy and performance measures (Abello and MacDonald 2002;Harris et al 2012;Thornton and Marston 2009). Service delivery organisation personnel therefore act simultaneously as 'mediators of both policy and politics and as locations for conflict over the character and scope of the welfare state' (Brodkin 2013, 33).…”

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Interpretative accounts of work capacity assessment policy for young adults with disabilities

Stafford

Marston

Beatson

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Disability & Society

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Young adults with disabilities are a specific target of the welfare-to-work policy introduced by many OECD countries over the past decade. The implementation of these policies is a significant concern for service delivery organisations and advocates in Australia and internationally due to complex intersecting structural barriers that persist for many young adults with disabilities. A particular focus of this article is work capacity assessments. Drawing on socio-political theories and interpretive policy analysis, the 22 in-depth interviews with personnel from service delivery organisations and advocacy organisations reveal how the deemed capacity to work process is not only interpreted as flawed, but the current policy approach disables young adults, perpetuates stigma, and creates division between service users and service providers. The accounts reinforce the need to contest such assessments and instead turn towards a rights-based capability approach permitting young adults with disability self-determination over their education-toemployment pathway.

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“…One's status as a citizen is derived from one's position in the labour market in meritocratic Western societies (Gleeson 1997). Disability-related public policies aiming to promote the full citizenship of mildly intellectually disabled people and those experiencing mental health conditions therefore seek to further their access to mainstream employment under the heading of 'active citizenship' (Parker Harris, Owen, and Gould 2012), in particular through supporting the transition from care provisions and alternative employment arrangements to regular employment (Hall and McGarrol 2012). Since care provisions and adjusted workplaces are seen as segregating disabled people from mainstream society and enforcing dependency, it is expected that such a transition leads to a 'civic' instead of a 'patient' identity.…”

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Balancing care and work: a case study of recognition in a social enterprise

Blonk

Huijben

Bredewold

et al. 2019

Disability & Society

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This paper discusses a case study of a Dutch work-integration social enterprise (WISE) to add to the debate on the contribution of employment to the citizenship of intellectually disabled people and those experiencing mental health conditions. In current welfare state policies, the value of labour market participation is narrowed down to regular employment, as workplace support and care provisions are seen as stigmatising and segregating. We argue that a more nuanced understanding is needed of the intersection of support arrangements with the benefits of employment. Building on 'recognition theory' by the German philosopher Honneth, our findings show that the work-integration social enterprise under study is successfully balancing the contrasting demands of logics of care and work, leading to experiences of 'recognition.' However, this balance is fragile and does not undo the misrecognition of disabled people as unable to live up to the productivity norms of a capitalist labour market.

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Parity of participation in liberal welfare states: human rights, neoliberalism, disability and employment

Cited by 51 publications

References 19 publications

Retirement Trajectories in Countries with Flexible Retirement Policies but Different Welfare Regimes

Retirement Trajectories in Countries with Flexible Retirement Policies but Different Welfare Regimes

Interpretative accounts of work capacity assessment policy for young adults with disabilities

Balancing care and work: a case study of recognition in a social enterprise

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