Social Security & Welfare Law

Work and the Social Safety Net: Labor Activation in Europe and the United States

Edited by Douglas J. Besharov · Douglas M. Call
Oxford University Press November 2022

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ISBN-13
9780190241599
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
November 2022
Format
Hardback

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During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the United States and much of the developed world were rocked by three successive economic shocks, each one more severe than the one before. Real relief from these economic shocks, of course, can only come from a restored economy—with balanced strength across many sectors and regions. Safety-net programs can also help alleviate this suffering. They provide urgent financial help and, when properly designed, can assist, motivate, or nudge recipients to seek and accept new employment. When necessary, they can help recipients to learn new skills and engage in other socially preferred behaviors. That is, they can "activate" the unemployed and underemployed.

Work and the Social Safety Net: Labor Activation in Europe and the United States describes how in the 1990s and early 2000s many European countries adopted policy reforms aimed at activating those recipients apparently able to work. These policy reforms were put to the test during the Great Recession and its aftermath. This volume reviews the experiences from both Europe and the United States during this period, and includes two chapters apiece on unemployment insurance, social assistance, disability, public employment services, and political economy. Work and the Social Safety Net identifies policies for activating recipients of safety-net programs while still preserving a strong social safety net—as a guide during the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and future downturns.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: European and US Experiences with Labor Activation
Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
Chapter 2: Activation and Employment Support Policies for Stronger and Fairer Labor Markets
Stefano Scarpetta
Chapter 3: Early Activation in European Union Unemployment Insurance Programs
Márton Csillag and Anna Adamecz-Völgyi
Chapter 4: Unemployment Insurance after the Great Recession
Jacob Alex Klerman
Chapter 5: Activation in Eight European Social Assistance Programs
Ivar Lødemel and Amílcar Moreira
Chapter 6: Less Activation in US Social Assistance Programs?
Matthew Weidinger
Chapter 7: Five Decades of Disability Benefit Policies in Five OECD Countries
Duncan McVicar, Roger Wilkins, and Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Chapter 8: Lessons for US Disability Policy from Other OECD Countries
Richard V. Burkhauser and Mary C. Daly
Chapter 9: Activation in Public Employment Services in Europe
J. Timo Weishaupt, Henning Jørgensen, and Alexander Nunn
Chapter 10: Workforce Development Services in the United States
Carolyn J. Heinrich
Chapter 11: Whither Activation Policies? Reflections for the Future
John P. Martin
Chapter 12: Lessons for Labor Policy in the Aftermath of the Great Recession
Edward Montgomery
Index
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