Essays about: "Workfare"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word Workfare.

1. 1. Full-Time Activation Programs: Driving Productivity or Promoting Self-Sorting?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Arian Mosaddegh; [2023]
   Keywords : Full-time Activation Programs; Difference-in-Differences; Workfare; Welfare Dependency; Unemployment Rate; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This study investigates the impacts of full-time activation programs on unemployment and welfare dependency rates in Swedish municipalities. With a policy proposal by the current government to make full-time activation mandatory for welfare eligibility, this research examines the underlying perspectives of such programs and their effectiveness in integrating the unemployed into the labor market. READ MORE

3. 2. The Social Construction of Vulnerable Areas in Sweden: the institutional mechanisms that produce, reproduce and transform urban marginalization

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Lina Olsson; [2022]
   Keywords : territorial marginalization; urban marginalization; Wacquant; welfare state; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The term “utsatta områden”, understood as socially vulnerable areas, is highly relevant within the Swedish criminal policy discourse where the Swedish Police Authority’s definition of vulnerable areas function as both foundation and support for a variety of political strategies concerning social interventions as well as penal policies. However, the criteria of vulnerable areas have come to be linked together with a more general picture of insecurity and vulnerability that does not account for the wider range of problems in the individual’s existence, as well as mean to legitimize social control and police interventions in marginalized areas targeting certain populations. READ MORE

4. 3. Steering the Client toward Self-sufficiency Swedish Social Workers’ Accounts of Responsibilisation

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Daniel Carlsson; [2018]
   Keywords : Social workers; labour market policies; activation; responsibilisation; discipline; control; discretion; street-level bureaucracy; automation; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In the last couple of decades in Sweden, there has been an adoption of “workfare”-oriented policy approaches to unemployment (as opposed to the former, less conditioned welfare-oriented ones). Consequently, labour market policies more and more have started to encompass the Social Services Department (in Swedish; “socialtjänsten”). READ MORE

5. 4. Estimating The Forgone Income Of A Workfare Program: Case Colombia.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Armando Miguel Buelvas Martinez; [2014]
   Keywords : Workfare program; Welfare program; Forgone income.; Social Sciences; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Colombia, as many Latin-American countries have designed a series of welfare programs in order to relief poverty, due to the crisis experimented during the 90s. Hence, the present research estimate the impact on earnings of one of the welfare program implemented in Colombia “Empleo en Acción” and see the possible forgone income from participate in the program. READ MORE

6. 5. Gender and Cost-Effectiveness in Public Work Programmes

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

   Author : Olivia Malmqvist; [2013-05-28]
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   Abstract : Public work programmes (PWP) are a popular part of development strategies and poverty reduction schemes and Bolivia were receivers of international aid for two workfare programmes during 2004 and 2006. To analyse how well those two programmes have functioned I decided to look at cost-effectiveness and female participation in both programmes. READ MORE