Minimum income and active labour market policies: The traps of the work-first approaches
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Minimum income and active labour market policies : The traps of the work-first approaches. / Ciarini, Andrea; Girardi, Silvia; Pulignano, Valeria.
Social Investment and Institutional Change. red. / Andrea Ciarini. Taylor and Francis/Routledge, 2023. s. 37-59.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Minimum income and active labour market policies
T2 - The traps of the work-first approaches
AU - Ciarini, Andrea
AU - Girardi, Silvia
AU - Pulignano, Valeria
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In recent years, anti-poverty policies have been at the centre of profound change. As a result of the crisis and the increased number of working poor, every European country, including most recently Greece and Italy, have deployed a wide variety of policy tools to strengthen this pillar of welfare supply: minimum income schemes, as means-tested income support anti-poverty schemes, tax credits and in-work benefits aimed increasing work incentives for low-income workers and their families, active labour market policies as well as dedicated social services (housing, education, childcare, and healthcare) to facilitate social inclusion. As a consequence of these reforms, all European countries can now rely on an extended social safety net to fight poverty and social exclusion. However, these readjustments were not without trade-offs. In fact, while the number of beneficiaries has been steadily on the rise, means-testing, controls, and work conditionalities have been strongly reinforced with a marked pressure to favour work at any cost, even at the price of precarious or low-paid employment. In this chapter, we focus on these transformations in a selected group of European countries: Germany, France, Denmark, and Italy, representative of different welfare regimes (Continental, Nordic, and Mediterranean) and different traditions of welfare measures against poverty.
AB - In recent years, anti-poverty policies have been at the centre of profound change. As a result of the crisis and the increased number of working poor, every European country, including most recently Greece and Italy, have deployed a wide variety of policy tools to strengthen this pillar of welfare supply: minimum income schemes, as means-tested income support anti-poverty schemes, tax credits and in-work benefits aimed increasing work incentives for low-income workers and their families, active labour market policies as well as dedicated social services (housing, education, childcare, and healthcare) to facilitate social inclusion. As a consequence of these reforms, all European countries can now rely on an extended social safety net to fight poverty and social exclusion. However, these readjustments were not without trade-offs. In fact, while the number of beneficiaries has been steadily on the rise, means-testing, controls, and work conditionalities have been strongly reinforced with a marked pressure to favour work at any cost, even at the price of precarious or low-paid employment. In this chapter, we focus on these transformations in a selected group of European countries: Germany, France, Denmark, and Italy, representative of different welfare regimes (Continental, Nordic, and Mediterranean) and different traditions of welfare measures against poverty.
U2 - 10.4324/9781003369707-3
DO - 10.4324/9781003369707-3
M3 - Book chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85161251442
SN - 9781032439761
SP - 37
EP - 59
BT - Social Investment and Institutional Change
A2 - Ciarini, Andrea
PB - Taylor and Francis/Routledge
ER -
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