Work and the Social Safety Net
Labor Activation in Europe and the United States
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 December 2022
- ISBN 9780190241599
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 164x238x23 mm
- Weight 676 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 27 b/w line drawings 273
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Short description:
Work and the Social Safety Net: Labor Activation in Europe and the United States describes how in the 1990s and early 2000s many European countries adopted policy reforms aimed at activating those recipients apparently able to work. These policy reforms were put to the test during the Great Recession and its aftermath. This volume reviews the experiences from both Europe and the United States during this period. Work and the Social Safety Net identifies policies for activating recipients of safety-net programs while still preserving a strong social safety net--as a guide during the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and future downturns.
MoreLong description:
During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the United States and much of the developed world were rocked by three successive economic shocks, each one more severe than the one before. Real relief from these economic shocks, of course, can only come from a restored economy--with balanced strength across many sectors and regions. Safety-net programs can also help alleviate this suffering. They provide urgent financial help and, when properly designed, can assist, motivate, or nudge recipients to seek and accept new employment. When necessary, they can help recipients to learn new skills and engage in other socially preferred behaviors. That is, they can "activate" the unemployed and underemployed.
Work and the Social Safety Net: Labor Activation in Europe and the United States describes how in the 1990s and early 2000s many European countries adopted policy reforms aimed at activating those recipients apparently able to work. These policy reforms were put to the test during the Great Recession and its aftermath. This volume reviews the experiences from both Europe and the United States during this period, and includes two chapters apiece on unemployment insurance, social assistance, disability, public employment services, and political economy. Work and the Social Safety Net identifies policies for activating recipients of safety-net programs while still preserving a strong social safety net--as a guide during the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and future downturns.
Douglas J. Besharov is a professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, where he teaches courses on poverty, welfare, children and families, policy analysis and logic models, program evaluation, and performance management. He is a former president of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, where he also directed its program on international policy exchanges, and co-Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford University Press International Policy Exchange series.
Douglas M. Call is the deputy director of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy's Center for International Policy Exchanges and Welfare Reform Academy. He is also a lecturer at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, teaching graduate courses on program evaluation and poverty measurement and alleviation, and supervising student projects in the capstone course.
Table of Contents:
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Introduction: European and US Experiences with Labor Activation
Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
Chapter 2: Activation and Employment Support Policies for Stronger and Fairer Labor Markets
Stefano Scarpetta
Chapter 3: Early Activation in European Union Unemployment Insurance Programs
Márton Csillag and Anna Adamecz-Völgyi
Chapter 4: Unemployment Insurance after the Great Recession
Jacob Alex Klerman
Chapter 5: Activation in Eight European Social Assistance Programs
Ivar L?demel and Amílcar Moreira
Chapter 6: Less Activation in US Social Assistance Programs?
Matthew Weidinger
Chapter 7: Five Decades of Disability Benefit Policies in Five OECD Countries
Duncan McVicar, Roger Wilkins, and Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Chapter 8: Lessons for US Disability Policy from Other OECD Countries
Richard V. Burkhauser and Mary C. Daly
Chapter 9: Activation in Public Employment Services in Europe
J. Timo Weishaupt, Henning J?rgensen, and Alexander Nunn
Chapter 10: Workforce Development Services in the United States
Carolyn J. Heinrich
Chapter 11: Whither Activation Policies? Reflections for the Future
John P. Martin
Chapter 12: Lessons for Labor Policy in the Aftermath of the Great Recession
Edward Montgomery
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