Basic income support in Europe: A cross-national analysis based on the European Social Survey Round 8

Abstract Rapid technological change – the digitalization and automation of work – is challenging contemporary welfare states. Most of the existing research, however, focuses on its effect on labor market outcomes, such as employment or wage levels. In contrast, this paper studies the implications of technological change for welfare state attitudes and preferences. Compared to previous work on this topic, this paper adopts a much broader perspective regarding different kinds of social policy. Using data from the European Social Survey, we find that individual automation risk is positively associated with support for redistribution, but negatively with support for social investment policies (partly depending on the specific measure of automation risk that is used), while there is no statistically significant association with support for basic income. We also find a moderating effect of the overall size of the welfare state on the micro-level association between risk and preferences.

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Regional Variation in Inequality of Educational Opportunity across Europe

Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World ◽

10.1177/23780231211019890 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

pp. 237802312110198

Author(s):

Bastian A. Betthäuser ◽

Caspar Kaiser ◽

Nhat An Trinh

Keyword(s):

Regional Variation ◽

Educational Opportunity ◽

Large Body ◽

European Social Survey ◽

Regional Level ◽

Social Survey ◽

Policy Makers ◽

National Differences ◽

Inequality Of Educational Opportunity ◽

Cross National

A large body of literature documents cross-national variation in the level of inequality of educational opportunity (IEO) among children from different social backgrounds. By contrast, relatively little attention has been given to the extent to which IEO varies within counties and across regions. On the basis of data from the European Social Survey, the authors map variation in IEO across regions in Europe and show that IEO varies substantially within counties. This visualization of the heterogeneity of IEO within European countries highlights the need for researchers and policy makers to extend the current focus on cross-national differences and to investigate and address IEO at the regional level. The visualization raises important questions with respect to the contours, causes, and consequences of cross-regional variation in IEO.

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Religious Heterogamy and the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion: A Cross-National Analysis

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel10020109 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 109 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Brian McPhail

Keyword(s):

Fixed Effects ◽

Negative Impact ◽

National Level ◽

Religious Attendance ◽

Social Survey ◽

Using Data ◽

Fixed Effects Regression ◽

National Analysis ◽

The Relationship ◽

Cross National

This study examines the effect of religious heterogamy on the transmission of religion from one generation to the next. Using data from 37 countries in the 2008 Religion III Module of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), I conduct a cross-national analysis of the relationship between parents’ religious heterogamy and their adult childrens’ religious lives. By estimating fixed effects regression models, I adjust for national-level confounders to examine patterns of association between having interreligious parents during childhood and level of adult religiosity as measured by self-rated religiousness, belief in God, and frequencies of religious attendance and prayer. The results indicate that having religiously heterogamous parents or parents with dissimilar religious attendance patterns are both associated with lower overall religiosity in respondents. Parents’ religious attendance, however, mediates the relationship when each parent has a different religion. Having one unaffiliated parent is associated with lower religiosity regardless of parents’ levels of religious attendance. The negative impact of parents’ religious heterogamy on religious inheritance is independent of national-level factors and has implications for anticipating changes in the religious landscapes of societies characterized by religious diversity and growing numbers of interreligious marriages.

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A condição sénior no Sul da Europa e na Escandinávia

Saúde e Sociedade ◽

10.1590/s0104-12902015000200011 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 527-542

Author(s):

António Calha

Keyword(s):

European Social Survey ◽

Social Survey ◽

Survey Round

O aumento da esperança média de vida associado a uma retração significativa da natalidade tem contribuído para um rápido envelhecimento das sociedades e uma profunda alteração da estrutura demográfica de muitos dos países europeus. Neste artigo, analisamos as especificidades da condição sénior nos países do Sul da Europa e da Escandinávia. Tratando-se de países com uma configuração de modelos de proteção social distintos, procuramos perceber se existem formas diferenciadas de viver a velhice nessas sociedades. Para tal, recorremos à análise dos resultados obtidos no European Social Survey (round 5 - 2010). A análise realizada revela que a existência de diferentes modelos que configuram a condição sénior nas sociedades em análise traduz-se em formas diferenciadas de lidar com o processo de envelhecimento. Concluímos que a condição de idoso não depende exclusivamente dos fatores biológicos relacionados com a limitação física, pois o contexto social em que se enquadra a vivência desse período da vida também influencia a condição sénior e a forma como os idosos a perspetivam.

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Introduction: Basic Income in European Welfare States: Opportunities and Constraints

Social Policy and Society ◽

10.1017/s1474746418000489 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 237-242 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Jurgen De Wispelaere ◽

Louise Haagh

Keyword(s):

European Social Survey ◽

Welfare States ◽

Cash Transfer ◽

Basic Income ◽

Social Survey ◽

Work Requirement ◽

The World ◽

Pipe Dream ◽

Income Assistance ◽

Permanent Residents

In the space of a mere five years, basic income has become something of a global policy phenomenon. The proposal to grant all permanent residents of a political territory a regular cash transfer on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement (Van Parijs and Vanderborght, 2017) is actively discussed at the highest levels of policy-making across the world, including by international institutions such as OECD, IMF or the World Bank. At the same time, several country surveys indicate the basic income idea is gaining considerable traction amongst the general public, with support for basic income in the latest wave of the European Social Survey (ESS) averaging slightly above 50 per cent (Lee, 2018). This suggests basic income has now firmly moved away from a mere ‘philosophical pipe dream’ to being considered as a serious alternative to conditional income assistance (Van Parijs, 2013; Haagh, 2017).

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Mapping social capital across Europe: findings, trends and methodological shortcomings of cross-national surveys

Social Science Information ◽

10.1177/0539018408089077 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 47 (2) ◽

pp. 159-186 ◽

Cited By ~ 41

Author(s):

Frane Adam

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Critical Reflection ◽

European Social Survey ◽

Institutional Factors ◽

European Level ◽

Social Survey ◽

National Surveys ◽

European Values ◽

European Values Study ◽

Cross National

Two sets of issues are elaborated and reflected on. The first one concerns the distribution of stocks of social capital across European (EU) nations. Using the conventional proxies like trust and associational involvement on the basis of data from cross-national surveys (European Values Study and European Social Survey as well as from Eurobarometer), the main tentative trends and patterns are outlined. The second set of issues refers to the quality and credibility of data. Concerning the first issue, it is possible to speak of four groups of countries with regard to the distribution of social capital at the European level. In contrast to authors who argue that there are no large differences in mean scores across the national patterns, this analysis arrived at more differentiated conclusions. Between the first and fourth groups, a very clear borderline can be drawn, while differences between the second and third groups are not so pronounced. In the context of the thematizing and critical reflection of the validity and comparability of the empirical evidence, some errors and inconsistencies were found. It seems that they appeared in part due to the inappropriate technical design of cross-national surveys and in part because of the countries-specific semantic-cultural as well as institutional factors, which did receive much attention either in the stage of preparing and conducting the survey or in the phase of interpreting and generalizing of the data.

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Basic Human Values and Attitudes Towards a Universal Basic Income in Europe

Basic Income Studies ◽

10.1515/bis-2021-0010 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Gwangeun Choi

Keyword(s):

Negative Relationship ◽

European Social Survey ◽

Welfare States ◽

Human Values ◽

Basic Income ◽

Social Survey ◽

Welfare State Development ◽

Self Transcendence ◽

Moderating Role

Abstract This study contributes to the emerging literature on public opinion on a universal basic income (UBI) not only by investigating the role of basic human values in influencing support for UBI but also by examining the moderating role of welfare state development in the association between basic human values and UBI support. Using the European Social Survey (ESS) Round 8 in 2016, which has an item asking whether to support UBI and the 21-item measure of human values that is based on the Schwartz theory of basic human values, the results show that individual universalism that is a self-transcendence value is positively and significantly associated with support for UBI, while the other self-transcendence value, benevolence, has a negative relationship with that; the two self-enhancement values, power and achievement, are positively linked to support for UBI. Additionally, in advanced welfare states, people who are more inclined towards individual universalism are more likely to support UBI; by contrast, in underdeveloped welfare states, this relationship is not apparent.

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Social capital, ‘Ghent’ and workplace contexts matter: Comparing union membership in Europe

European Journal of Industrial Relations ◽

10.1177/0959680111400894 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 107-124 ◽

Cited By ~ 52

Author(s):

Bernhard Ebbinghaus ◽

Claudia Göbel ◽

Sebastian Koos

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Unemployment Insurance ◽

Union Membership ◽

Union Density ◽

European Social Survey ◽

Individual Factors ◽

Social Survey ◽

Establishment Size ◽

Socio Demographic Factors ◽

Cross National

Union density still varies considerably across Europe. This cross-national diversity has inspired multiple explanations ranging from institutional to workplace or socio-demographic factors. In this comparative multilevel analysis, we combine personal, workplace and macro-institutional explanations of union membership using the European Social Survey. By controlling for individual factors, we test the cross-national effect of meso- and macro-level variables, in particular workplace representation, establishment size, Ghent unemployment insurance and a society’s social capital. We conclude that all these institutional and social contextual factors matter in explaining differences in union membership.

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Institutional trust, political participation, and corruption: A European comparative perspective

Sociologija ◽

10.2298/soc2102336z ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 63 (2) ◽

pp. 336-354

Author(s):

Jovana Zafirovic ◽

Branka Matijevic ◽

Bozidar Filipovic

Keyword(s):

Political Participation ◽

European Social Survey ◽

Institutional Trust ◽

Multilevel Regression ◽

Social Survey ◽

Depth Analysis ◽

Survey Results ◽

Post Industrial ◽

The Relationship ◽

Cross National

Despite the theoretical and political importance of the relationship between institutional trust and different forms of political participation in Europe, theoretical and empirical focus on post-industrial economies leave the literature wanting of explanations of cross-national variation in political participation. In this article, we test whether levels of corruption influence the relationship between institutional trust and participation. We rely on the 9th wave of the European Social Survey results for an in-depth analysis of the relationship between institutional trust, political participation, and perceived corruption in 27 countries. The multilevel regression analysis results show that the effect of institutional trust on institutionalised political participation (including voting) is moderated by corruption. However, corruption does not moderate the relationship between institutional trust and non-institutionalised forms of participation.

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