Power Resources and the Canadian Welfare State: Unions, Partisanship and Interprovincial Differences in Inequality and Poverty Reduction

Haddow, Rodney

doi:10.1017/s0008423914001036

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“…The influence of unions on Canadian social policy at the provincial level remains a major influence on employment and welfare policies. Haddow (), for example, shows that in the areas of tax and spending‐based redistribution that strong unions have reduced provincial‐level inequality. An earlier study confirms a similar positive influence of unions on provincial relative minimum wages: lower levels of unemployment insurance and New Democratic Party (NDP) administrations also emerged as positive influences, with high unemployment working against increases (Dickson and Myatt ).…”

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The Politics of ‘Minimum Wage’ Welfare States: The Changing Significance of the Minimum Wage in the Liberal Welfare Regime

Wilson

2017

Soc Policy Adm

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It is an indisputable reality that the English‐speaking welfare states have retreated from their distinct postwar welfare state compromises in ways that prompt many to wonder what is still liberal about the liberal welfare states. Considering developments in minimum wage institutions and politics in five liberal welfare states, this article argues that the apparent renewed politicization of the minimum wage – driven by legislative action and activist campaigns from below – is an inevitable consequence of the twin policies of labour market deregulation and workfare‐centred social policies. A larger electorate of low‐paid workers, including those in full‐time work, combined with rising concerns from the public about the extent and injustice of poverty wages are important factors drawing renewed attention to the politics and policy of minimum wages. However, I also show that policymakers have additional incentives to embrace higher minimum wages: the economic orthodoxy in favour of low minimum wages has steadily lost credibility, and legislating for wage increases enables a predistributive strategy with the potential to shift the burden of addressing inequalities from fiscally‐strained governments to employers. Drawing on policy and political developments from across Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA, I make the claim that the politicization of minimum wages offers genuine insight into the future battles over what is ‘liberal’ about the liberal welfare states.

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The Politics of ‘Minimum Wage’ Welfare States: The Changing Significance of the Minimum Wage in the Liberal Welfare Regime

Wilson

2017

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“…We assembled our sample using a ‘snowball’ strategy: we started with a few well-known studies, then added publications through backward and forward reference searching. Our final sample contains three journal articles (Bernard and Saint-Arnaud, 2004; Haddow, 2014; Raïq and Plante, 2013), four book chapters (Haddow, 2013; Plante and van den Berg, 2011; Proulx et al, 2011; Raïq et al, 2011), and two books (Haddow, 2015; Van den Berg et al, 2017).…”

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Taking subnational and regional welfare states seriously: Insights from the Quebec case

Daigneault¹,

Birch

Béland

et al. 2021

Journal of European Social Policy

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Most quantitative, comparative welfare state research assumes that subnational welfare regimes are irrelevant or identical to their national counterparts. Many qualitative case studies, on the other hand, have underlined the differences between subnational and national regimes. In this article, we attempt to build bridges between these two strands of literature by examining the case for a Quebec model, that is, a subnational welfare state regime that is distinct from its Canadian counterpart(s). We reviewed seven publications from which we extracted 188 quantitative results relevant to the distinct subnational regime hypothesis. Although not all these results are independent nor based on conclusive evidence, they generally agree that a distinct welfare regime exists in Quebec. We conclude this article by discussing the implications of the Quebec case for the study of welfare regimes at the subnational and regional levels.

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“…Quebec has encompassing and generous family policies (Godbout and St‐Cerny 2008), an elaborate and multipartite framework for labour market policies (Wood 2018: 183), a relatively effective poverty reduction strategy (van den Berg et al 2017), and a uniquely developed social economy sector (Arsenault 2018). The difference between Quebec’s and other provincial welfare states, estimates Rodney Haddow, is comparable to that separating the OECD’s main welfare regimes (2014: 735).…”

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Quebec’s resilient redistribution model: Activation policies in the 2010s

Dinan¹,

Noël²

2020

Can Public Adm

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Compared to the rest of Canada, Quebec has an ambitious and redistributive social model, which includes an elaborate set of Active Labour Market Policies (ALMP), with higher expenditures as a percentage of GDP, an encompassing coverage, and collaborative, multipartite governance arrangements. Since the 2008 recession, however, most OECD countries have implemented retrenchment measures, market enforcement, and individual action plans to their ALMP. Using provincial, federal, and OECD data and reports, this article maps the recent evolution of Quebec's ALMP in light of these trends. Quebec's model appears largely resilient, despite declining expenditures and modest concessions to conditionality in social assistance. Sommaire : Comparativement au reste du Canada, le Québec est doté d'un modèle social de redistribution ambitieux, qui comprend un ensemble détaillé de politiques actives du marché du travail (PAMT), offrant des dépenses accrues en pourcentage du PIB, une couverture généreuse, et des accords de gouvernance en partenariat multipartites. Depuis la récession économique de 2008, cependant, la plupart des pays de l'OCDE ont adopté des mesures d'austérité, renforcé le rôle du marché, et introduit des plans d'action individualisés dans leurs PAMT. À partir de données et de rapports des provinces, du gouvernement fédéral et de l'OCDE, cet article analyse l'évolution récente des PAMT du Québec à la lumière de ces tendances. Le modèle québécois semble se maintenir, malgré la réduction des dépenses et quelques concessions réintroduisant des conditions pour l'accès à l'aide sociale. Quebec has often been described as having a different social and welfare model compared to the rest of Canada, one that is more ambitious, costly, and redistributive. Quebec has encompassing and generous family policies (Godbout and St-Cerny 2008), an elaborate and multipartite framework for labour market policies (Wood 2018: 183), a relatively effective poverty reduction strategy (van den Berg et al. 2017), and a uniquely developed social economy sector (Arsenault 2018). The difference between Quebec's and

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Power Resources and the Canadian Welfare State: Unions, Partisanship and Interprovincial Differences in Inequality and Poverty Reduction

Cited by 18 publications

References 22 publications

The Politics of ‘Minimum Wage’ Welfare States: The Changing Significance of the Minimum Wage in the Liberal Welfare Regime

The Politics of ‘Minimum Wage’ Welfare States: The Changing Significance of the Minimum Wage in the Liberal Welfare Regime

Taking subnational and regional welfare states seriously: Insights from the Quebec case

Quebec’s resilient redistribution model: Activation policies in the 2010s

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