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Making the Poor Work. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 248
Poverty policy and work demands have been
controversial questions in social policy; during the
workhouse era of the nineteenth century as well as in
current discussions. The concepts of poverty,
marginalisation, and social exclusion are analysed in
the first part of the book.
The later parts describe the present conditions
regarding poverty, social assistance and
welfare-to-work programs in Sweden. Social assistance
developed in the 1980s in the direction of an income
guarantee. During the 1990s, policies changed towards
activation and control when the Swedish welfare state
was burdened by a severe recession. Time-series and
longitudinal datasets are used for analysis of the
relation between unemployment and receipt of social
assistance.
Malmö, a traditionally industrial city, was severely
hit by the recession with increasing marginalisation
and long-term receipt of social assistance.
Activation programs are often proposed as a solution
and had a central role in municipal policy.
According to available evidence from evaluation
research, such programs have quite modest effects on
work and income and the result was similar in the
impact evaluation of the local program.
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