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dc.contributor.authorFOSSATI, Flavia
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-06T16:00:58Z
dc.date.available2018-02-06T16:00:58Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationJournal of social policy, 2018, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 77-97en
dc.identifier.issn0047-2794
dc.identifier.issn1469-7823
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/51268
dc.descriptionPublished online: 05 April 2017en
dc.description.abstractThe literature addressing attitudes about social policy and the welfare state has been telling us for decades that welfare interventions are supported by those individuals who benefit from a specific measure. The diffusion of ‘demanding’ active labour market policies (ALMPs), however, challenges this relationship. Using a novel dataset, I analyse which individual- and country-level factors explain public support for demanding ALMPs in five Western European countries. The results show that labour market risk and ideological orientation influence public attitudes towards these ALMPs. Thereby, unemployed individuals sympathising with the political right are more strongly opposed to demanding measures than employed individuals with the same political preferences. Moreover, aggregate support is found to be correlated with the country's ALMP legacy, varying from high levels in Germany and the UK to low levels in Denmark and France. The findings suggest that most ALMPs are in fact implemented despite the opposition of their beneficiaries.en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of social policyen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.titleWho wants demanding active labour market policies? : public attitudes towards policies that put pressure on the unemployeden
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0047279417000216
dc.identifier.volume47en
dc.identifier.startpage77en
dc.identifier.endpage97en
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