The guaranteed minimum income in Portugal: A universal safety net under political and financial pressure

Pereirinha, José António; Branco, Francisco; Pereira, Elvira; Amaro, María Inês

doi:10.1111/spol.12604

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“…The value and criteria for access to the Social Insertion Income and the supplemental income for the elderly were restored, expanding coverage and income security. A set of regulatory decisions and most importantly the reversal (in 25 per cent) of the previous cut in SII value stopped and reverted the downward trend in the number of beneficiaries (Pereirinha et al, 2020). In 2017, the protection of people with disability was expanded with the creation of a new social benefit.…”

Section: Social Safety Net and Disabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Solidarity in Hard Times

Branco¹,

Cardoso²

2022

Inscribing Solidarity

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This chapter deals with solidarity towards those made more vulnerable due to less security in employment and degraded social protection during hard times. 1 Stable, long-term employment paying a living wage shrunk over previous decades, as shortterm, unstable, poorly paid jobs spread. Higher insecurity and instability affected standard and temporary employment, the latter rising everywhere. Particularly in segmentation-prone Birmarckian systems, such as the Portuguese, where social security is closely linked with enduring labour market participation, rising precarity in atypical employment (averaging 21 per cent from 2000 to 2018) is often compounded by weak or spotty social protection. The twin fragmentation of work and breakdown of the standard employment relation brought about a 'precarious periphery' and a 'destabilization of the stable' (Castel, 2003; 2007), accompanied by widespread 'privatization of risk' in the labour market and social protection due to increasing social and economic risk shifts from government and employers onto ordinary individuals and their families (Hacker, 2006).These trends did not start with the Great Recession; they have prevailed for some time in advanced industrial economies, but found in crisis policymaking under conditionality an opportunity to evade constraints that hitherto had tamed or 'embedded' them. Looking at the Portuguese case, we study weather and how domestic politics and institutions mattered to counteract the dualisation, precarisation, and liberalising trends in employment relations and social protection during the Great Recession and beyond.1 We thank Julia López López and her leadership on the Project on Solidarity for supporting this research and convening several Seminars on 'Solidarity under the Perspective of Labour Law', concluding with 'Inscribing Solidarity: Labor Law and Beyond', held at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), and all participants for their warm support and pointed and insightful comments. Research was supported also by IPRI-NOVA FCT fund (UIDB/04627/2020).

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Section: Social Safety Net and Disabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Solidarity in Hard Times

Branco¹,

Cardoso²

2022

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“…Las recomendaciones de las instituciones europeas durante el último decenio han insistido en ambos elementos (Comisión Europea, s. f.). Recomendaciones que, en países como Grecia, han adquirido la forma de imposiciones ante las dilaciones del gobierno griego en la creación de una renta mínima (Aguilar-Hendrickson y Arriba, 2020a;Jessoula y Natili, 2020;Matsaganis, 2020;Pereirinha, Branco, Pereira y Amaro, 2020).…”

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Entre recalibración y continuidad: el contexto del nacimiento del IMV

Durana

Hendrickson

2021

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España, a diferencia de otros países meridionales, recalibró desde los años 1980 su sistema de garantía de ingresos, conteniendo el nivel contributivo y creando un conjunto de programas asistenciales. A pesar de su significativo impacto, los límites e incoherencias de ese conjunto asistencial explican que, desde 2015, su reforma esté en la agenda política nacional. Aunque el conjunto existente tiene mayor impacto que sus equivalentes italiano o griego, su diseño está aún anclado en una concepción «fordista» que asocia empleo con seguridad económica. Este modelo se muestra insuficiente para hacer frente a las transformaciones de la estructura de los hogares, a las dificultades de acceso a la vivienda, pero sobre todo al crecimiento de formas precarias de participación en el empleo. El artículo analiza la trayectoria del conjunto de la garantía de ingresos en el que el nuevo Ingreso Mínimo Vital mejora apreciablemente la cobertura asistencial, pero deja sin resolver la adecuación del conjunto a las nuevas formas de empleo.

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“…Portugal set up its national minimum income in the mid‐1990s largely as a result of a domestic will to “Europeanize” its limited welfare state and the role of centre‐left political parties (Pereirinha, Branco, Pereira, & Amaro, 2020). Since then several limited reforms have taken place to adjust its workings, to contain costs at the beginning of the Great Recession and to expand protection in its aftermath.…”

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confidence: 99%