Income support for the unemployed and the poor

2015 ◽  
pp. 263-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janine Berg
Keyword(s):  
Income Support ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Unemployed

Mutual Obligation, Participation and Popularity: Social Security Reform in Australia

2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER SAUNDERS
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Reference Group ◽  
Social Security Reform ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Disability Support ◽  
Mutual Obligation ◽  
The Unemployed

Mutual obligation – the idea that those who receive assistance in times of need should be required to ‘give something back’ – is the driving force behind the current social security reform agenda in Australia. After more than a decade of intense reform, the Australian Government is considering a reform blueprint based on the recommendations of a Welfare Reform Reference Group. These include proposals to increase mutual obligation requirements on the unemployed and that sole parents and disability support pensioners should be required to demonstrate some form of social or economic participation in return for receiving income support. Results from a national survey of public opinion are used to explore community views on a range of mutual obligation requirements for the unemployed. The analysis indicates that there is support for mutual obligation for the young and long-term unemployed, but not for others, such as the older unemployed, those caring for young children and those with a disability. Most people also see mutual obligation as implying action on the part of government to reduce unemployment and ease the plight of the unemployed.

Income support policies and labour market reforms under austerity in Greece

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manos Matsaganis
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Labour Market Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Employment Service ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Funding Opportunities ◽  
Constructive Engagement ◽  
The Unemployed

This chapter reviews the changes in labour market policies under conditions of harsh austerity and mass unemployment in Greece in 2010-2015. Three policy areas are covered: income support to the unemployed, active labour market policies, and employment protection legislation. We find that labour market policies in Greece have failed to rise to the challenge of harsh austerity and mass unemployment. A legacy of backwardness, neglect, and general lack of sophistication proved difficult if not impossible to overturn under the emergency conditions prevailing since 2010. Moreover, as regards the less controversial aspects of the structural reforms demanded by the country’s creditors under the bailout agreements (for instance, supporting job creation, upgrading the Public Employment Service, and improving the absorption, as well as the effectiveness of EU funding), the domestic actors’ preferred approach of passively adjusting to European funding opportunities, rather than genuinely puzzling for solutions, left no room for a more constructive engagement. The adverse effects of the resulting handicap are there for all to see.

scholarly journals Two Social Protection Programs in Pakistan

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (Special Edition) ◽  
pp. 283-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ijaz Nabi
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Support Program ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Income Support ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Large Pool ◽  
The Government ◽  
Overall Effectiveness ◽  
Cash Grant

Pakistan has launched two far reaching social protection programs. The federal government’s Benazir Income Support Program has, at its core, an unconditional cash grant for the poorest households. Responding to the concern that this runs the risk of creating a large pool of permanent government handout recipients, the federal government has also launched an ambitious skills development program. At the provincial level, the government of Punjab is implementing skills development as social welfare in the four poorest Southern Punjab districts. The paper discusses the structure of the two programs, their success at reaching the poor and the monitoring challenges to assess their overall effectiveness.

scholarly journals No evidence of increase in suicide in Greece during the first wave of Covid-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sotiris Vandoros ◽  
Olga Theodorikakou ◽  
Kyriakos Katsadoros ◽  
Dimitra Zafeiropoulou ◽  
Ichiro Kawachi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Econometric Model ◽  
Interrupted Time Series ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Interrupted Time Series Analysis ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Suicide Hotline ◽  
Second Wave

AbstractBackground and ObjectiveMental health outcomes have reportedly worsened in several countries during the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns. In the present study we examined whether suicides increased in Greece during the first wave of the pandemic.MethodsWe used daily suicide estimates from a Suicide Observatory in Greece from 2015-2020 and followed three methodologies: A descriptive approach, an interrupted time series analysis, and a differences-in-differences econometric model.ResultsWe did not find any empirical evidence of any increase in suicides during the first wave of Covid-19 and the lockdown in any of the three approaches used.ConclusionsSuicides did not seem to increase during the first wave of covid-19 and lockdown in Greece. However, this does not mean that mental health did not deteriorate, or that we will not observe an increase in suicides during the second wave. Protective factors for Greece during the first wave may include working from home (for those able to tele-work), strong family ties, advertising of a suicide hotline and income support for the unemployed.

The Missionaries of Francis: The Theology of the People and the Unification of the Argentine Piquetero Movement (2014–2018)

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Pablo Forni
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Movement Organizations ◽  
Social Movement Organization ◽  
Informal Workers ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The People ◽  
Movement Organization ◽  
Movement Organizations ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Movimientos Sociales

Founded in 2014, the Missionaries of Francis is a small social movement organization made up of activists from several other social movement organizations representing informal workers and the unemployed. Its goal was to promote the message of the newly appointed Pope Francis among the poor and excluded. Drawing inspiration from the theology of the people, the movement is contributing new repertoires of contention based on popular religious images and icons to Argentine social movements. Starting in 2016, it has occupied a key role, bringing together ideologically and politically heterogeneous social movement organizations to resist the neoliberal social policies of President Mauricio Macri. Fundados en 2014, los Misioneros de Francisco son una pequeña organización formada por activistas de varios movimientos sociales que representan a los trabajadores informales y a los desempleados. Su objetivo fue promover el mensaje del recién nombrado Papa Francisco entre los pobres y excluidos. Inspirado en la teología del pueblo, el movimiento está aportando nuevos repertorios de protesta basados en imágenes e íconos de la religiosidad popular a los movimientos sociales argentinos. Ha jugado un papel clave a partir de 2016, reuniendo organizaciones de movimientos sociales ideológica y políticamente heterogéneos para resistir las políticas sociales neoliberales del presidente Mauricio Macri.

From Concepts to Institutions

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-77
Author(s):  
Clive Emsley
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Criminal Offenders ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Unemployed

This chapter details how the changes resulting from the growth of royal power, from Enlightenment rationality, and then from the turmoil of the French Revolution and its wars led to significant developments in police as an institution. Yet this did not necessarily give them the key role in the pursuit of criminal offenders. During the late sixteenth century and the early seventeenth, the range of police tasks was not greatly dissimilar from that of the classical period. But during the Enlightenment, princes in much of Europe began to issue ordinances clearly defining the role of police as involving the general well-being of their territory. The men working at the top of the organization responsible for what was known as ‘police’ often had legal training and worked as much in the courts as elsewhere within their jurisdiction. Dealing with crime and criminals did not figure greatly in these ordinances; nevertheless, the ministers of Enlightenment princes tended to have views about offenders and tended to stigmatize as potential criminals both the unemployed and those members of the poor moving around the country acting as harvesters or looking for other forms of work.

Projects of Colonization of Algeria During the Early French Occupation (1830–1834)

2021 ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Evgeniya Prusskaya
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
European Population ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
North African ◽  
Wide Cross ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Auxiliary Source

After the French invasion of Algeria in 1830 and with the further conquest of North African lands, the share of the European population in the conquered territories was constantly increasing. At the same time, at the early stage of the French occupation of Algeria in 1830-1834, the fate of the lands seized by the French was not resolved, and there were different solutions to the “Algerian question”. This period has not received sufficient coverage in historiography. This article examines plans for the colonization and further development of Algeria on the materials of the Archives nationales d'outre-mer in Aix-en-Provence (A.N.O.M. F 80/1161), containing many projects dedicated to the colonization of the country, which were sent by French citizens for consideration in the Chamber of Deputies in the period 1830–1834. An auxiliary source used in the article is the published transcripts of the debates in the French Parliament. The projects of colonization were various and mostly utopian, and the authors themselves did not have clear understanding of the natural, ethno-confessional, and social realities of the country in which they proposed to establish a colony. The analysis of the archival materials revealed a wide cross-section of opinions on the structure of the future colony in Algeria and demonstrated the aspirations of the French of that time to regain the prestige of France in the international arena, to get a rich colony, and to evict the “inconvenient” population, i.e. prisoners, the poor, the unemployed, and emigrants to Algeria.

scholarly journals Models of unionism and unemployment

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Checchi ◽  
Luca Nunziata
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Simultaneous Determination ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Union Density ◽  
Single Equation ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
The Relationship

We investigate the problem of simultaneous determination of labour market institutions and outcomes in single equation multi-country estimations by presenting an empirical analysis of unemployment and union density in 20 OECD countries. When explicitly modelling potential endogeneity and heterogeneity, our results suggest that unions contribute to explaining unemployment in different ways than previously thought. In addition, the relationship between unemployment and union density is heterogeneous across countries, depending on the way in which income support for the unemployed is organized.

The Model Millionaire

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Wilde
Keyword(s):  
Permanent Income ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Unemployed

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be...

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