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- An eco-social solution to energy poverty' Substance and symbolism in the
England's use of domestic energy efficiency policy to achieve social and
environmental synergies, 1997–2023-
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Authors: Paul Bridgen
Abstract: European Journal of Social Security, Ahead of Print.
Domestic energy efficiency policy is potentially a means for reducing residential energy-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and expenses for households in energy poverty. It has often been presented as an eco-social exemplar, for example in the European Union's Green Deal. The European Commission regards domestic energy efficiency improvements as the primary means for addressing energy poverty notwithstanding the 2022/23 energy crisis. However, the case for domestic energy efficiency improvement as a tool for achieving simultaneously social and environmental goals is often assumed rather than demonstrated. This article uses Mandelli's eco-social trilemma heuristic and the symbolic politics literature to surface the tensions involved in such processes, focusing on policy efforts in the England between 1997 and 2023 as a case study. England is a good case to consider because it has been regarded as a leader of energy poverty mitigation and its policy approach is similar to the European Commission's. The article details the main policy instruments used in England, assesses outputs and outcomes using official statistics, government and independent policy evaluations and the secondary literature, and details the main problems encountered in achieving environmental/social synergies. Based on this analysis, the article argues that English domestic energy efficiency policy has generally constituted a symbolic eco-social policy, particularly on the social side and since 2010. Highlighted by the 2022/23 energy crisis, domestic energy efficiency policy is best regarded as one component of a policy toolkit for reducing energy poverty, which at the least should also include targeted social protection.
Citation: European Journal of Social Security
PubDate: 2023-09-26T08:28:55Z
DOI: 10.1177/13882627231195722
- Books Review: Rethinking Welfare and the Welfare State by Bent Greve
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Authors: abhishek Abhishek
Abstract: European Journal of Social Security, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Social Security
PubDate: 2023-09-19T06:25:57Z
DOI: 10.1177/13882627231200743
- Book Review: The Cambridge Handbook of Labour in Competition Law by
Sanjukta Paul, Shae McCrystal, Ewan McGaughey-
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Authors: Marco Biasi
Abstract: European Journal of Social Security, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Social Security
PubDate: 2023-09-14T11:18:46Z
DOI: 10.1177/13882627231201481
- Overview of recent cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union
(January–June 2023)-
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Authors: Pauline Melin, Susanne Sivonen
Abstract: European Journal of Social Security, Ahead of Print.
In this casenote, the judgments in DRV Intertrans and Verbraeken (Joined Cases C-410/21 and C-661/21) and Thermalhotel Fontana (Case C-411/22) are discussed. DRV Intertrans and Verbraeken concerned a case of alleged fraudulent A1 certificates for posted workers. The issue was that those A1 certificates were only provisionally, as opposed to definitively, withdrawn by the issuing institution. As a result, the referring court in DRV Intertrans and Verbraken asked the Court of Justice whether the courts of the Member State where the work was carried out could consider the provisional withdrawal of the A1 certificates by the issuing institution as rendering those A1 certificate non-binding. Alternatively, the referring court asked whether it could disregard those A1 certificates following the Altun jurisprudence of the Court of Justice. Thermalhotel Fontana involved isolation measures being imposed on frontier workers by their Member State of residence, making them unable to work. The specific legal issue at hand in Thermalhotel Fontana concerned the fact that the employer of those frontier workers was not able to get compensation from Austria, the Member State of establishment, for his employees due to the fact that the isolation measures were not taken by Austria but by the Member States of residence of the frontier workers. Considering that this case did not fall within the scope of Regulation 883/2004, the Court examined it under the principle of equal treatment of EU workers.
Citation: European Journal of Social Security
PubDate: 2023-09-14T11:17:46Z
DOI: 10.1177/13882627231200355
- Overview of recent cases before the European Court of Human Rights
(January – May 2023) and the European Committee of Social Rights
(September 2022 – May 2023)-
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Authors: Eleni De Becker
Abstract: European Journal of Social Security, Ahead of Print.
In this case law report (January 2023 – May 2023) three cases before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and two cases (September 2022 – May 2023) before the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) will be discussed. The first two cases before the ECtHR are discussed together, as they tackle the partial annulment by the Spanish Constitutional Court of the legislation on survivor's pensions. The judgment imposed the same conditions for accessing a survivor's pension for partners in a civil partnership all over Spain. In both cases, the ECtHR ruled that Spain breached Article 1 Additional Protocol European Convention on Human Rights (AP ECHR). The third case that will be discussed also concerns a survivor's pension. In Bosiljevac v. Croatia, the ECHR found a violation of the right to a fair trial in Article 6 ECHR. The case concerns the expert reports used in administrative proceedings in which the applicant sought, on account of his medical condition, to be granted a survivor's pension following the death of this father. Lastly, two cases before the ECSR will be presented. Panhellenic Association of Pensioners of the OTE Group Telecommunications v. Greece concerns a series of pension reforms introduced in Greece. The ECSR did not hold in favour of the applicant, who argued that those reforms violated, inter alia, the right to social security in Article 12 of the Revised European Social Charter (ESC). The last case (Finnish Society of Social Rights v. Finland) concerns the minimum level of several social security and social assistance benefits in Finland. The ECSR agreed with the applicant and held that the benefits granted were inadequate and violated the right to social security and the right to social assistance in Article 12, § 1 and Article 13, § 1 ESC.
Citation: European Journal of Social Security
PubDate: 2023-09-14T11:17:26Z
DOI: 10.1177/13882627231200343
- Books Reviews: Participation Income: An Alternative to Basic Income for
Poverty Reduction in the Digital Age by Heikki Hiilamo-
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Authors: Alger Kurti
Abstract: European Journal of Social Security, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Social Security
PubDate: 2023-08-31T06:07:34Z
DOI: 10.1177/13882627231191265
- Establishing social services for health promotion in health insurance
states: Germany, Switzerland and Austria compared-
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Authors: Caspar Lückenbach, Verena Biehl, Thomas Gerlinger
Abstract: European Journal of Social Security, Ahead of Print.
Prevention and health promotion are important areas of welfare state activity and can be considered parts of the critical infrastructure. They have been considerably expanded in Western welfare states in recent years. In the health insurance states of Germany, Switzerland and Austria, new forms of organisation have emerged. The article describes the evolution and status quo of the organisation of prevention and health promotion in the three countries and explores the legitimisation patterns for the chosen institutional forms. To this end, health reforms, debates and statements of key stakeholders are analysed. A distinction is made between ‘normative’ legitimisation patterns and ‘functional’ ones that indicate a ‘social investment’ strategy. In Germany, the 2015 Prevention Act created an institutional structure in which the actors involved cooperate closely. It also gives the health insurance funds a prominent role. In Switzerland, the cantons are responsible for prevention and health promotion; at federal level the main bodies are the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) and the Swiss Foundation for Health Promotion (Gesundheitsförderung Schweiz). In Austria, the Länder are largely responsible, but the federal level gained importance by establishing Gesundes Österreich GmbH and strengthening coordination. While the term ‘social investment’ is not encountered in the debates and documents analysed, many arguments commonly associated with it are increasingly used in the context of prevention and health promotion. In contrast, normative justifications seem to be losing importance.
Citation: European Journal of Social Security
PubDate: 2023-08-22T06:16:07Z
DOI: 10.1177/13882627231188671
- Towards an eco-welfare state: Enabling factors for transformative
eco-social initiatives-
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Authors: Tuuli Hirvilammi, Juha Peltomaa, Matti Pihlajamaa, Sanna Tiilikainen
Abstract: European Journal of Social Security, Ahead of Print.
In eco-welfare states, welfare provision must operate within planetary boundaries, entailing societal transformations and significant emission reductions. This article contributes to the research on sustainable welfare and eco-social policies by examining transformative and integrative eco-social initiatives that aim to reduce environmental impacts while also ensuring that public actors have the capacities to reach legally binding social outcomes and enhance social inclusion. Theoretically, we combine welfare state transformation research with the concepts of social-ecological systems, provisioning systems and transformative capacity. Our empirical cases in Finland include public actors promoting sustainable public procurement, a network of carbon-neutral municipalities, sustainable lifestyles accelerators at the household level, and carbon footprint calculators as a potential free-to-use technique that supports widespread carbon reductions. We apply a qualitative research design to investigate what kinds of factors are crucial in enhancing the transformative capacity of provisioning systems and how various factors in practice enable the eco-social initiatives to support the transformation towards an eco-welfare state. Our findings identify key enabling factors for transformative capacity: social networks, collaboration and participation; knowledge, learning and monitoring; shared policy frameworks and visions; and financial resources. These factors are interrelated and can be brought to bear in no particular sequence. The results offer valuable insights into how welfare state characteristics with democratically governed public actors may facilitate transformation.
Citation: European Journal of Social Security
PubDate: 2023-08-18T06:31:20Z
DOI: 10.1177/13882627231195724
- Books Reviews: The World Politics of Social Investment, Volume I: Welfare
States in the Knowledge Economy by Julian L. Garritzmann, Silja
Häusermann, and Bruno Palier-
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Authors: Abhishek
Abstract: European Journal of Social Security, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Social Security
PubDate: 2023-08-03T06:23:38Z
DOI: 10.1177/13882627231184705
- Book Review: Welfare States in the 21st Century: The New Five Giants
Confronting Societal Progress by Ian Greener-
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Authors: Kristina Koldinská
Abstract: European Journal of Social Security, Ahead of Print.
Citation: European Journal of Social Security
PubDate: 2023-08-01T06:28:30Z
DOI: 10.1177/13882627231190495
- Critical infrastructure of social and labour market integration:
Capacitating the implementation of social service policies to the
long-term unemployed in Germany and France'-
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Authors: Renate Reiter
Abstract: European Journal of Social Security, Ahead of Print.
Active social and employment services are a crucial infrastructure of the welfare state. As these services are designed to help people in need of support to overcome periods of insecurity in their life course, their effective provision has also been seen as an element of the implementation of the social investment (SI) welfare state. However, the transition to the SI state is linked to numerous preconditions. This is especially true with regard to vulnerable people like the long-term unemployed (LTU). The provision of social services that meet the specific needs of this group requires the actors responsible for implementing social and employment policies to have adequate operative capacities. This article compares Germany and France as two European welfare states that – confronted with persistently high long-term unemployment – have taken different reform paths over the last 20 years that partly run counter to their political-administrative systemic conditions and governance traditions to meet this challenge. Empirically, the article draws on a systematic content analysis of selected policy documents and secondary literature. It is shown that the recent German reform path of combining central steering responsibility with local scope for action can be a way to come closer to a social investment-oriented service policy for the LTU. However, the article also reveals that neither state (yet) has the necessary operative capacities for a shift towards an SI state. Overall, the changes in the understanding of the SI paradigm and the welfare state's constant reluctance to invest in implementation capacity make its sustainable application unlikely.
Citation: European Journal of Social Security
PubDate: 2023-07-27T07:56:33Z
DOI: 10.1177/13882627231187609
- Introduction to the Special Issue on social services as critical
infrastructure: Taking stock of the promises of the social investment
state-
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Authors: Tanja Klenk, Renate Reiter
Abstract: European Journal of Social Security, Ahead of Print.
This Special Issue focuses on social services as the critical infrastructure of the social investment model of the welfare state. It addresses social services as a research topic that is still underexposed in comparative welfare state research and examines this topic with a systematising intention in a broad European comparative and methodologically diverse perspective. It brings together different strands of scholarly discussion that have hitherto been poorly connected – social services, critical infrastructure, social investment and the welfare state's capacity to strengthen social resilience through providing social services. The authors of the Special Issue undertake a critical examination of the development of the capacities to implement social service policies in different European welfare states and different service sectors over the last two decades. Taken together, the articles illustrate that – in practice and in contrast to the expectations of academic proponents of the social investment paradigm – there is (still) a bias towards investing, in particular, in those services which are anticipated as having significant economic and social ‘pay offs’ (e.g. early childhood education and care). Furthermore, the articles identify implementation challenges that pose severe obstacles to the realisation of the social investment model.
Citation: European Journal of Social Security
PubDate: 2023-07-27T05:54:33Z
DOI: 10.1177/13882627231190049
- Equal treatment as an instrument of integration. The CJEU's case law on
social rights for third-country nationals under the EU migration
directives-
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Authors: Herwig Verschueren
Abstract: European Journal of Social Security, Ahead of Print.
There is a growing tendency for the EU Member States to introduce conditions relating to the right to social benefits that are mostly disadvantageous to third-country nationals. These conditions are at risk of conflicting with provisions on the right to equal treatment with the nationals of the host country, as set down in a number of EU migration directives. This is all the more the case now that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has recently given a broad interpretation of these provisions. Consequently, the Member States are to take these provisions as well as the CJEU's case law into account when seeking to limit access to social benefits for third-country nationals. This article examines the content and meaning of these provisions and the relevant case law of the CJEU. It concludes that it is apparent from this case law that the main objective of the right to equal treatment in these directives is to promote the integration of said third-country nationals into the host country and, therefore, the Member States may not make this right dependent on a prior sufficient level of integration in that host country.
Citation: European Journal of Social Security
PubDate: 2023-07-10T06:55:00Z
DOI: 10.1177/13882627231185988
- Increasing longevity, NDC implementation in Italy and Sweden, and all that
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Authors: Sandro Gronchi, Sergio Nisticò, Mirko Bevilacqua
Abstract: European Journal of Social Security, Ahead of Print.
The aim of the paper is twofold. First, it addresses the delicate issue of divisor obsolescence within Non-financial Defined Contribution (NDC) pension schemes. It suggests a method to measure the impact of this obsolescence, referring to the Swedish mechanism of diversifying divisors by birth cohort. Given the serious impact of divisor obsolescence on the fairness and sustainability of NDC systems, the paper also proposes possible solutions to limit this impact. The second aim is to analyze the shortcomings of the Italian system in the light of the challenge to NDC architecture resulting from the obsolescence of divisors. The first anomaly is the current mechanism of periodical revision of the divisors, which prevents Italian workers from planning their retirement on the basis of definite and unchanging information. The second is the extremely wide retirement age range due to the existence of seniority pensions: this needs to be replaced by a small retirement age range with a sufficiently high and rigorous lower bound. Finally, the paper focuses on the need for all NDC systems to compute new divisors based on a much lower frontloading rate, as has recently been done in Norway. It finally suggests that the severe reductions in the replacement rates implied by a lower ‘frontloading’ can be avoided by either removing the survivors benefit from the old-age scheme or by giving workers the option to choose it ‘at their own expense’, as in the second pillar.
Citation: European Journal of Social Security
PubDate: 2023-06-16T12:30:34Z
DOI: 10.1177/13882627231176537
- Social services as critical infrastructure – conceptualising and
studying the operational core of the social investment state-
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Authors: Tanja Klenk, Renate Reiter
Abstract: European Journal of Social Security, Ahead of Print.
‘Social investment’ as an idea to justify social policy reforms has become more and more accepted in recent years and has decisively shaped agenda setting and policy formulation in European welfare states. The effectiveness of this new welfare state model, however, depends highly on the capacity to provide social services. Social services – job training, counselling and support for care work – are a key component of the social investment model. Drawing on the policy capacity approach, the article provides an analytical framework to study the ‘operational core’ of the social investment state. This implementation perspective allows us to assess whether governance actors actually have the resources to fulfil the social investment idea of enhancing citizens’ freedom to act. Empirically, the article concentrates on two selected European welfare states, Germany and France, countries with similar welfare systems but very different politico-administrative systems, and on two fields of social service provision that are addressed differently in the social investment debate: early childhood education and care (ECEC) and elderly care. Empirically, we use systematic content analysis to intensively study policy documents and secondary analyses. We show that both countries (still) lack policy capacities in these two sectors as a basis for resilient implementation of the social investment paradigm.
Citation: European Journal of Social Security
PubDate: 2023-06-13T05:32:26Z
DOI: 10.1177/13882627231175566
- The limits of social investment and the resilience of long-term care
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Authors: Franca van Hooren, Clémence Ledoux
Abstract: European Journal of Social Security, Ahead of Print.
This article investigates the extent to which a social investment paradigm has guided policy reforms in long-term care for the elderly in France and the Netherlands and how this relates to the resilience of the sector during the Covid-19 pandemic. It conceptualizes the theoretical impact of social investment on long-term care policy and analyzes its use to justify reforms since the early 2000s. It concludes that social investment has not played any role in Dutch long-term care reforms and a moderate role in France. Meanwhile, in both countries a neoliberal emphasis on the efficiency of the market has contributed to a rise in for-profit service provision and fragmentation of the long-term care sector. While long-term care provision in both countries proved relatively resilient in the first phase of the pandemic, at a later stage its resilience was undermined by fragmentation and marketization, limiting the government's ability to respond adequately to new challenges and, crucially, to improve working conditions in the sector. The article concludes that a social investment approach cannot resolve these problems and that there is a need for a new paradigm that acknowledges the inherent value of care work and prioritizes the long-term sustainability of care provision.
Citation: European Journal of Social Security
PubDate: 2023-05-23T05:35:58Z
DOI: 10.1177/13882627231176134
- The marble cake of social services in Italy and Spain: Policy capacity,
social investment, and the national recovery and resilience plans-
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Authors: Andrea Lippi, Andrea Terlizzi
Abstract: European Journal of Social Security, Ahead of Print.
This article analyses the potential implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the infrastructure of social services in Italy and Spain. Drawing from the policy capacity framework and focusing on childcare and elderly care, we investigate how the National Recovery and Resilience Plans are likely to impact the core functions of the social investment approach. Through document analysis, the article shows that, whereas the infrastructure of the social service system remains characterised by a ‘marble cake’ type of institutional arrangement combining national and subnational responsibilities, attempts have been made by the central governments to steer the social investment policy capacity at the organisational and systemic levels. We argue that the pandemic represents a window of opportunity to rethink the overall system of intergovernmental relations in the field of social services.
Citation: European Journal of Social Security
PubDate: 2023-04-17T06:37:46Z
DOI: 10.1177/13882627231169266
- How administrative reforms influence the capacity for implementing the
social investment state-
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Authors: Niklas A Andersen, Karen Nielsen Breidahl
Abstract: European Journal of Social Security, Ahead of Print.
For several decades, the social investment (SI) state has been heralded as the saviour of the welfare state, while at the same time being criticised for being just another instance of neoliberal downsizing of the welfare state. Recently, efforts have been made to provide clearer conceptualisations of how to assess the existence and impact of SI. However, these attempts have hitherto mainly focused on the policy functions and instruments of the SI state. This article contributes to existing research by offering a novel analytical framework on the capacity needed by street-level organisations (SLOs) to implement the central policy functions of the SI state, and by elucidating how administrative reforms influence this capacity. The article applies the framework to the implementation in Denmark of Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs) in local job centres. This case is considered an SI ‘flagship’ in terms of formal policies, while also having undergone multiple administrative reforms, which makes it highly illustrative for the central argument of the article – that the success or failure of an SI approach is not only determined by politics and formal policies. The empirical analysis reveals how the capacity to implement SI policies has been enhanced by administrative reforms; this has been done by giving job centres more room for discretion and enhancing their ability to make long-term investments and to promote integrated service provision across different service areas. However, at the same time the local job centres remain closely monitored and controlled through an external accountability performance measurement system.
Citation: European Journal of Social Security
PubDate: 2023-02-28T05:53:32Z
DOI: 10.1177/13882627231159101
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