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

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Douglas J. Besharov (Professor, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland) Douglas M. Call (Lecturer, Lecturer, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland)

Work and the Social Safety Net

Labor Activation in Europe and the United States

Douglas J. Besharov (Professor, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland), Douglas M. Call (Lecturer, Lecturer, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland)

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Oxford University Press Inc
25 January 2024

Social services & welfare, criminology; Aid & relief programmes; Advocacy

Series: INTERNATIONAL POLICY EXCHANGE SERIES

"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."

Edited by: Douglas J. Besharov (Professor Professor School of Public Policy University of Maryland), Douglas M. Call (Lecturer, Lecturer, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 164mm, Width: 238mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780190241599
ISBN 10: 0190241594
Series: INTERNATIONAL POLICY EXCHANGE SERIES
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 25 January 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

About the Authors 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

Douglas J. Besharov is a professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, where he teaches courses on poverty, welfare, children and families, policy analysis and logic models, program evaluation, and performance management. He is a former president of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, where he also directed its program on international policy exchanges, and co-Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford University Press International Policy Exchange series. Douglas M. Call is the deputy director of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy's Center for International Policy Exchanges and Welfare Reform Academy. He is also a lecturer at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, teaching graduate courses on program evaluation and poverty measurement and alleviation, and supervising student projects in the capstone course.