Unemployment Benefits: Discursive Convergence, Distant Realities
| Autor: | Vincenzo Fortunato, Antonio Martín-Artiles, Eduardo Chávez-Molina |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Poverty
Informal sector Welfarism media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 1. No poverty Convergence (economics) Context (language use) Welfare state Conditionality 0506 political science 050906 social work Political science 8. Economic growth Development economics Unemployment 050602 political science & public administration 0509 other social sciences 10. No inequality media_common |
| Zdroj: | Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Latin America ISBN: 9783030484415 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-48442-2_13 |
| Popis: | Unemployment protection systems have certain characteristics in common in Argentina, Uruguay, Spain and Italy: they are compulsory and contributory-proportional, although in Uruguay, it also has a capitalisation supplement. Despite the similarities, they work differently because the context of informal employment chiefly, and unemployment, low salaries and precariousness differ greatly. Consequently, the unemployment protection coverage rate varies. Theories of the Active Welfare State, the Investor State and the reforms of unemployment protection systems have led to a certain modernising language being adopted in these countries: activation, employability, conditionality, lifelong learning, flexibility, which are, among others, words shared with Europe.However, the meanings of these words differ according to the institutional context of each country. In Latin America the welfare state is low institutionalised even almost non-existent, while in Europe it is a diverse institution. Despite this, the four countries share an upward trend in benefit policies, in accordance with the increase in poverty risk. |
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