The Effects of Municipal Policy Strategies on Social Assistance Inflow and Outflow in the Netherlands, 1999–2007

10.1068/c1043 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lourens Broersma ◽  
Arjen Edzes ◽  
Jouke van Dijk
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Municipal Policy ◽  
Policy Strategies

scholarly journals Challenges and Risks of Individualisation in The Netherlands

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trudie Knijn
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Economic Independence

This article evaluates recent transformations in social policy that reflect the tendency towards individualisation in The Netherlands. Such transformations have taken place in old age pensions, widows' pensions, social assistance and taxation, and in respect of child support following divorce. Interestingly most reforms have not resulted in ‘full individualisation’, but rather have taken into account the fact that people, in particular women, are not or cannot be assumed to be full-time adult workers. Such a ‘moderate individualisation’, however, is not without risks for women's economic independence, especially when the developments of the Dutch ‘life course perspective’ on social security are considered.

Social Assistance Dynamics in the Netherlands: Exploring the Sustainability of Independence from Social Assistance via Labour Market Inclusion

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rik van Berkel
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Welfare Work ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Current Emphasis ◽  
Dutch City ◽  
European Welfare States

The current emphasis in European welfare states on ‘activation’ increases the relevance of insight into social assistance dynamics and work–welfare/welfare–work transitions. This article reports on a study that explored the employment, unemployment and social assistance careers of a large group of people who managed to become independent from social assistance by finding a job. Using the databases of social security agencies in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, it investigates the sustainability of social assistance independence and labour market inclusion, and identifies groups that are more or less likely to be confronted with spells of renewed social assistance dependency or unemployment.

scholarly journals Influence of municipal policy and individual characteristics on the use of informal and formal domestic help in the Netherlands

Health Policy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 122 (7) ◽  
pp. 791-796 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Marangos ◽  
Geeke Waverijn ◽  
Mirjam de Klerk ◽  
Jurjen Iedema ◽  
Peter P. Groenewegen
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Municipal Policy ◽  
Domestic Help

scholarly journals Protecting working welfare recipients through human rights experimentalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Elise Dermine ◽  
Anja Eleveld
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Gender Neutral ◽  
International Human

Abstract In this paper, we adopt an experimentalist approach to determining the content of international human rights for assessing national mandatory work programmes for recipients of social assistance (MWPs). This approach implies going back and forth between law and experience in order to determine the better way to secure human rights in an ever-changing environment. After having identified six criteria for evaluating MWPs in the soft case-law of international bodies, we confront this emerging international human rights framework with an empirical study on MWP practices in the Netherlands. This confrontation reveals that specific aspects of the capability for voice of working welfare recipients are absent in the human rights framework and that the framework is not gender-neutral. Including these aspects, we construct an experimentalist human-rights-based instrument that is suitable for evaluating national MWPs.

scholarly journals Learning from informality? Rethinking the mismatch between formal policy strategies and informal tactics of citizenship

2016 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nanke Verloo
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Urban Neighborhood ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
Formal Policy ◽  
Global North ◽  
Policy Strategies ◽  
Narrative Mapping

Democratic governance is increasingly focused on active citizenship. Governments in the Global North seek to make residents responsible for improving their communities. Democracy, however, is not solely experienced in abstract terms, it also materializes through more informal everyday interactions with public officials. This article explores the significance of routine and performative street-level encounters that shape people’s experience of belonging or exclusion in a democratic state through a methodology of narrative mapping. Two ethnographic vignettes reveal the disjuncture between formal policy strategies that seek to foster citizenship and residents’ informal tactics to perform citizenship in an urban neighborhood in the Netherlands. The article underscores a paradox: the fact that formal strategies can inadvertently disrupt informal citizenship tactics, and thereby undermine the goals of an inclusive project.

Basic Income Experiments in the Netherlands?

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert van der Veen
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Poverty Trap ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Treatment Groups ◽  
Training Activities ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Random Control

Abstract To many in the Netherlands it seems that basic income’s time has come, following the wide appeal of several municipal experiments. These random-control trial designs study the effects on employment, social participation, health and well-being of exempting social assistance claimants from the duties of seeking work and participating in training activities under the workfare-oriented Participation Act. In some treatment groups, claimants also retain a larger percentage of earnings, thereby reducing the poverty trap. These two design features resemble an unconditional basic income. I situate the experiments in the wider context of basic income and discuss their theoretical background and policy orientation. Under existing legal strictures, the experimental designs are too limited to judge the effects of replacing the conditional scheme of social assistance by an unconditional one. Yet these experiments point the way for future trials which can compare the effectiveness of basic income-oriented versus workfare-oriented treatments.

scholarly journals The ambiguity of diversity: Management of ethnic and class transitions in a gentrifying local shopping street

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (16) ◽  
pp. 3299-3314
Author(s):  
Emil van Eck ◽  
Iris Hagemans ◽  
Jan Rath
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Social Mixing ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Policy Strategies

As a malleable concept with a relatively positive resonance, ‘diversity’ proves to be a useful tool to legitimise a range of policy strategies, goals and outcomes. In the Netherlands, the concept has gained a central role in the implementation of social mixing policies targeting so-called problematic neighbourhoods by introducing a better ‘mixed’ or ‘balanced’ population. The discursive celebration of such a mixed neighbourhood, however, often carefully evades the question: ‘A mix of what?’ Closer inspection of policy interventions reveals that the different meanings of diversity are employed to claim urban space for some groups, while excluding others. This is illustrated by a range of micro-management strategies in a shopping street in Amsterdam, Javastraat. Framed as promoting diversity, they form a symbolically loaded strategy to covertly manage ethnic and class transition by targeting the retail landscape. This article explores the (discursive) remaking of the shopping street and the consequences thereof for shopkeepers and local residents.

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