Arbeitspapier

Getting People into Work: What (if Anything) Can Justify Mandatory Activation of Welfare Recipients?

So-called activation policies aiming at bringing jobless people into work have been a central component of welfare reforms across OECD countries during the last decades. Such policies combine restrictive and enabling programs, but their characteristic feature is that also enabling programs are mandatory, and non-compliers are sanctioned. There are four main arguments that can be used to defend mandatory activation of benefit recipients. We label them efficiency, sustainability, paternalism, and justice. Each argument is analyzed in turn and according to a strict scheme. First we clarify which standards it invokes. Thereafter we evaluate each argument according to its own standards Finally we introduce competing normative concerns that have to be taken into account. In the conclusion we discuss possible constellations of arguments that make up the normative space for activation policies.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4317

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Thema
work-welfare
social transfers
labour productivity
screening

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Molander, Anders
Torsvik, Gaute
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2013

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Molander, Anders
  • Torsvik, Gaute
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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