Armut, Arbeitsmarktintegration und gesellschaftliche Teilhabe
Armut wirkt sich negativ auf das Wohlbefinden und die Partizipationschancen der Betroffenen aus. Stabile Arbeitsmarktintegration gilt demgegenüber als eine wichtige Voraussetzung für gesellschaftliche Teilhabe.
Dieses Dossier stellt Literaturnachweise zur Frage zusammen, welchen Einfluss Armut und Beschäftigungsunsicherheit auf die soziale Integration haben.
Im Filter „Autorenschaft“ können Sie auf IAB-(Mit-)Autorenschaft eingrenzen.
-
Literaturhinweis
Basic income reduces poverty and inequality: Are there costs in terms of efficiency? (2026)
Zitatform
Lara, Francisco & Xisco Oliver (2026): Basic income reduces poverty and inequality: Are there costs in terms of efficiency? In: Journal of Policy Modeling, Jg. 48, H. 1, S. 23-42. DOI:10.1016/j.jpolmod.2025.06.002
Abstract
"Growing inequality since the eighties in most developed countries, together with the effects of recent economic crises, which affected more severely to lower incomes, pushed into the political agenda the need to improve the redistribution of the tax-benefit system. Systematically, one proposal to fight poverty and inequality is the implementation of a basic income. Detractors of this proposal argue that the cost of this measure is too high and criticize the potential disincentives to work and efficiency reduction. However, most studies simulating this kind of policy ignore the effects on employment and outcome. This paper simulates a bunch of reforms that replace the personal income tax with a basic income flat tax scheme. The analysis uses a behavioral microsimulation model of the Spanish tax-benefit system, which includes labour supply reactions. The results show that basic income - flat tax reform is feasible (in the sense that tax collection is kept constant in all simulations) and reduces poverty and inequality. However, the cost in terms of efficiency, measured by gross income and labor supply, is not negligible. This reduction in efficiency reduces social welfare and offsets the improvement of the social welfare achieved by the decrease of inequality." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of The Society for Policy Modeling.) ((en))
-
Literaturhinweis
Knowing one’s place? The role of income inequality in shaping positioning bias across 29 countries (2026)
Zitatform
Wiesner, Timo & Julio Iturra-Sanhueza (2026): Knowing one’s place? The role of income inequality in shaping positioning bias across 29 countries. In: Frontiers in Sociology, Jg. 10. DOI:10.3389/fsoc.2025.1617014
Abstract
"This study investigates how individuals’ misperceptions of their relative position in the income distribution—referred to as positioning bias—are shaped by income inequality. Drawing on the ISSP 2019 Social Inequality module, the analysis includes data from 31,368 individuals across 29 countries and employs multilevel modelling to test whether individuals are more likely to misperceive their position under conditions of high inequality. We explore heterogeneity across income groups and bias types (unbiased, underestimation, and overestimation). Findings reveal that inequality is associated with positioning bias, though the direction and magnitude depend on the individuals’ actual income position. Individuals in disadvantaged positions are more accurate in their self-perceptions when inequality is high, while those in higher-income positions tend more towards underestimating their relative standing. Overall, the results show that higher inequality is associated with lower subjective status relative to respondents’ actual position across all income groups. This researchcontributes to broader debates on inequality perceptions and redistributive preferences." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
-
Literaturhinweis
The uneven effects of conditional cash transfers on women and men (2025)
Zitatform
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa & Roberto Quaranta (2025): The uneven effects of conditional cash transfers on women and men. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 94. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102695
Abstract
"We compare the effects of training-conditional and unconditional cash transfer programs on the labor market outcomes of women and men. We use the experiment in Del Boca et al. (2021) where low-income households are randomly assigned to one of three groups: cash transfer conditional on a family-specific bundle of training programs, unconditional cash transfer with no access to those training programs, and no treatment. We exploit Social Security data, including all registered labor contracts in Italy. We find that cash transfers conditional on training have a positive and sizeable effect on males’ labor income and that this effect stays in place for at least two years after the program. Unconditional cash transfers did not affect men. In contrast, female employment is positively affected by both cash transfers regardless of access to the training, but the effect is smaller if they are conditional." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 Elsevier B.V. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.) ((en))
-
Literaturhinweis
Wirtschaft und soziale Ungleichheit (2025)
Zitatform
Baur, Nina & Jürgen Beyer (Hrsg.) (2025): Wirtschaft und soziale Ungleichheit. (Wirtschaft + Gesellschaft), Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 265 S. DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-46565-0
Abstract
"Der Band leistet einen Beitrag zu der zunehmend fragmentierten Debatte zum Verhältnis von Wirtschaft und sozialer Ungleichheit. Die Untersuchung des Verhältnisses zwischen Wirtschaft und sozialer Ungleichheit ist eine der ältesten Fragen, mit denen sich die Soziologie befasst, und gewinnt vor dem Hintergrund der Krisen der vergangenen Jahre wieder zunehmend an Bedeutung. Aktuell wird in der Soziologie das Thema vor allem unter vier Aspekten diskutiert: (1) die Wahrnehmung und Bewertung von Auf- und Abstiegen und Vermögenslagen, (2) die extreme Ungleichheit aufgrund von „Winner-Take-all“-Phänomenen, (3) die Analyse von die Ungleichheit prägenden Einflüssen, die im Zusammenhang mit neuen Formen des unternehmerischen Handelns, neuen Möglichkeiten zur Koordinierung von Arbeit und nachhaltigeren Organisationsweisen stehen, sowie (4) die ländervergleichende Analyse von Abhängigkeiten zwischen Zentrum und Peripherie" (Verlagsangaben, IAB-Doku)
Weiterführende Informationen
Inhaltsverzeichnis -
Literaturhinweis
No one-size-fits-all solution. Effects of social policies on in-work poverty (2025)
Zitatform
Brülle, Jan (2025): No one-size-fits-all solution. Effects of social policies on in-work poverty. In: European Societies, S. 1-29. DOI:10.1162/euso.a.19
Abstract
"The paper studies effects of social policies on in-work poverty risks, distinguishing between measures that either intervene in labor market processes - i.e. predistribution policies - or redistribute towards those with low incomes. The analyses use data from EU-SILC and macro-level indicators from various sources to estimate general as well as household-typespecific effects using longitudinal methods. Results reveal important differences between specific policies: increasing minimum wages contributes to reducing low-wage risks, but has no significant effect on in-work poverty risks. In contrast, there is a negative effect of strict employment protection legislation across almost all household types on in-work poverty, which is consistent with the positive role this measure plays for supporting earnings that are sufficient to provide not only for one person, but also potential dependants in the household. With respect to redistributional policies, both unemployment benefits and benefits to low earners reduce poverty due to their contribution to public poverty-reduction. However, whereas unemployment benefits only reduce in-work poverty among couple households, benefits to low earners mainly contribute to lower poverty risks among employed single parents. Overall, the results underscore that predistributional and redistributional as well as universal and targeted interventions cannot easily substitute each other." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
-
Literaturhinweis
The impact of income support measures on material deprivation: the case of Italy (2025)
Zitatform
De Angelis, Marina & Piero Esposito (2025): The impact of income support measures on material deprivation: the case of Italy. In: Applied Economics, S. 1-20. DOI:10.1080/00036846.2025.2557578
Abstract
"The topic of measures to fight against poverty is one of the most debated by decision-makers, commentators, and insiders in Italy. After a short life, despite the increase in poverty and inequalities in Italy, the universal income support measures were abolished in 2023. This paper presents a counterfactual impact evaluation of the Inclusion Income (II), Italy’s first income support measure, on severe material deprivation from 2017 to 2021. We rely on a novel database collected from a survey addressed to beneficiary and non-beneficiary but eligible families of universal income support measures in Italy. Our results show a positive impact of the monetary benefit on the probability of not being severely materially deprived in 2019 but not in 2021. The in-kind part of the benefits, namely the socio-economic reinsertion personalized project, is, instead, effective after 2019, confirming its importance in addressing structural disadvantages and providing a long-term solution to material deprivation for the most disadvantaged groups. Results also show that the in-kind benefit is more effective in the South. Policy implications concerning the potential effectiveness of the polices replacing the II are discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
-
Literaturhinweis
Work-family trajectories and poverty duration and severity in German working-age households (2025)
Gohl, Miriam;Zitatform
Gohl, Miriam (2025): Work-family trajectories and poverty duration and severity in German working-age households. In: Longitudinal and life course studies, Jg. 16, H. 3, S. 281-304. DOI:10.1332/17579597y2025d000000041
Abstract
"This study examines how work-family trajectories of households with poverty experience relate to poverty persistence across their working-age life course, using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel from 2007 to 2020 (N =1,518). Work-family trajectories are conceptualized by considering individual- and household-level explanations of poverty. Taking a life course perspective, the study explores sequences of labor market attachment, the extent of low-wage receipt and the needs-to-resource ratio in households across eight years. Methods combine multichannel sequence analysis to identify four clusters of work-family trajectories, and linear regressions to link these clusters to the cumulated length of poverty experiences and the average distance from the at-risk-of-poverty threshold across eight years. Findings reveal that most work-family trajectories among working-age households with poverty experience are dominated by low household work intensity and the presence of children, with trajectories of low-wage receipt forming less prominent patterns. Household histories of low work intensity are linked to increased poverty duration and severity. This relation is even stronger for households that simultaneously experience a high needs-to-resource ratio or frequent low-wage receipt, emphasizing the interplay between these two factors and household work intensity. High household work intensity reduces poverty persistence the most, with education identified as an important contextual factor mitigating poverty persistence. Findings suggest to reduce poverty persistence by supporting higher work intensity and regular employment in households with poverty experiences by addressing what prevents individual employment, such as upskilling or reskilling along individual strengths. Such initiatives are particularly important to decrease poverty persistence in families with children." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
-
Literaturhinweis
Armutsrisiko stagniert, ist aber bei Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund und Erwerbslosen weiterhin hoch (2025)
Zitatform
Grabka, Markus M. (2025): Armutsrisiko stagniert, ist aber bei Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund und Erwerbslosen weiterhin hoch. In: DIW-Wochenbericht, Jg. 92, H. 42, S. 663-671. DOI:10.18723/diw_wb:2025-42-1
Abstract
"Die hohe Inflation der vergangenen Jahre hat nach aktuellen Zahlen des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zu Kaufkraftverlusten bei Bruttostundenlöhnen und Haushaltsnettoeinkommen geführt. Die Ungleichheit bei den Löhnen ist weiter gesunken und wieder auf dem Stand des Jahres 2000. Dies liegt vor allem an den positiven Entwicklungen am unteren Ende der Lohnverteilung: Durch die wiederholten Anhebungen des Mindestlohns hat der Anteil der Beschäftigten im Niedriglohnsektor nach Zahlen des Statistischen Bundesamtes mit 15,9 Prozent im Jahr 2024 einen neuen Tiefstand erreicht. Bei den verfügbaren Einkommen auf Haushaltsebene stagniert seit 2020 die Ungleichheit ebenso wie die Armutsrisikoquote, allerdings ist beides in der langen Frist gestiegen. Unter Personen mit Migrationshintergrund und insbesondere unter Geflüchteten ist die Niedrigeinkommensquote überdurchschnittlich hoch, während sie bei der Bevölkerung ohne Migrationshintergrund seit mehr als zehn Jahren nahezu unverändert ist. Die Erwerbsbeteiligung hat einen maßgeblichen Einfluss auf das Armutsrisiko. Zur Reduktion der Einkommensungleichheit und des Armutsrisikos sollten sowohl die Arbeitsmarktintegration ausgewählter Zielgruppen in den Fokus genommen als auch das Transfersystem reformiert werden, um Anreize zur Ausweitung der Arbeitszeit zu setzen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
-
Literaturhinweis
Poverty among migrant, mixed, and non-migrant households: the role of non-teleworkability and single-earnership in Germany (2025)
Zitatform
Hornung, Maria, Emanuela Stuffolino & Hannah Zagel (2025): Poverty among migrant, mixed, and non-migrant households: the role of non-teleworkability and single-earnership in Germany. In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Jg. 51, H. 5, S. 1294-1321. DOI:10.1080/1369183x.2024.2404219
Abstract
"Migrant and mixed households have higher poverty than non-migrant households. This is partly because single-earner two-adult households are more prevalent in migrant and mixed households and because such households have different job characteristics. One crucial job characteristic is teleworkability. Whether or not individuals can work from home has become a dividing factor in the labour market. While much research has focused on how teleworkability affects poverty in the majority population, less attention has been devoted to migrant and mixed two-adult households. Using the German Microcensus (2019), we construct work arrangements based on the number of earners in the household and their job‘s teleworkability to predict poverty for non-migrant (N = 49,507), mixed (N = 6,818), and migrant households (N = 8,922). Descriptive statistics show that, in Germany, migrant and mixed households have more single-earner and non-teleworkable work arrangements. Results from logistic regressions report higher poverty for non-teleworkable and single-earner work arrangements, putting mixed and migrant households at an increased disadvantage. Furthermore, we find that migrant (and mixed) households not only have a higher prevalence of high-poverty work arrangements but also higher poverty than non-migrant and mixed households within the same work arrangements." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
-
Literaturhinweis
Diskurse zum Missbrauch von Sozialleistungen und Sozialstaatskritik: Von der 'sozialen Hängematte' zum 'Sozialtourismus' und den 'Totalverweigerern' (2025)
Zitatform
Knecht, Alban (2025): Diskurse zum Missbrauch von Sozialleistungen und Sozialstaatskritik. Von der 'sozialen Hängematte' zum 'Sozialtourismus' und den 'Totalverweigerern'. In: A. Kerle, F. Kessl & A. Knecht (Hrsg.) (2025): Armutsdiskurse. Perspektiven aus Medien, Politik und Sozialer Arbeit, S. 67-80. DOI:10.1515/9783839471180-005
Abstract
"Vom Phänomen Armut lassen sich viele Aspekte diskutieren, wie z.B. persönliche Schicksalsschläge und strukturelle Gegebenheiten als mögliche Ausgangspunkte, erlebter materieller Mangel sowie die sich aus Armut ergebenden eingeschränkten und prekären Lebensverhältnissen, die reduzierte Teilnahme und Teilhabe am öffentlichen Leben und die hohe seelische Belastung der Betroffenen, die mit psychischen und physischen Krankheiten und geringere Lebenserwartung einhergeht. In der öffentlichen Diskussion rücken dagegen immer wieder die gleichen Themen und Thesen in den Vordergrund: Es wird behauptet, dass Arbeitslosigkeit und Armut entsteht, weil sich die Betroffenen nicht genug anstrengen um Arbeit zu finden. Die Empfänger*innen würde Sozialleistungen missbrauchen und deren Üppigkeit das Problem verschärfen. Darüber hinaus wird angenommen, dass die Sozialleistungen zu einer ›Gewöhnung‹ oder ›Abhängigkeit‹ führen würden. Die Diskurse weisen einerseits eine gewisse Kontinuität auf, wandeln sich aber auch in bestimmten politischen und gesellschaftlichen Konstellationen. So gab es bereits bei der Gründung der Sozialversicherungen Klagen über vermeintliches »Pensionsspekulantentum« (Nullmeier/Vobruba 1995: 42), über »Simulanten« (ebd.) und über angebliche »Selbstverstümmeler« (ebd.), die sich Leistungen erschleichen wollten. Andererseits – und das soll im Folgenden untersucht werden – haben sich die Erzählungen zu Arbeitslosigkeit und Armut in der Nachkriegszeit auch verändert. Im Folgenden gehe ich zuerst auf die Funktionen der Debatte über die »unwürdigen Armen« und den Missbrauch von Sozialleistungen ein und verweise auf die soziale Konstruiertheit von Armut. Im Anschluss reflektiert ich zentrale Diskursereignisse ab den 70er Jahren, die eine größere Öffentlichkeitswirkung entfaltet haben, untersuche Kontinuitäten und Veränderungen und schließe mit einer Einordnung der Ergebnisse ab." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku, © DeGruyter Brill)
-
Literaturhinweis
Poverty based on income and net wealth: patterns and trends (2025)
Zitatform
Kuypers, Sarah (2025): Poverty based on income and net wealth. Patterns and trends. (Social situation monitor), Brussels, 49 S. DOI:10.2767/5605844
Abstract
"This research note focuses specifically on poverty as it is one of the key challenges identified in the European Pillar of Social Rights and its Action Plan. It highlights recent patterns, trends, and dynamics in poverty when calculated based on income and net wealth jointly across a large set of EU countries, relying on household microdata from the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) between 2009 and 2020. It contributes to the literature in at least four distinct ways 1) It provides an up-to-date overview of the incidence and patterns of poverty based on income and net wealth for the largest set of (EU) countries ever studied in this regard, including countries that have so far not been part of the literature. 2) It consists of an in-depth discussion of poverty measures that combine information on income and net wealth, including in relation to Eurostat’s experimental statistics on income, wealth, and consumption. It goes beyond previous research by analysing poverty rates as well as poverty gaps and the profile of the poor population. Furthermore, where the literature has primarily focused on those who are able to leverage income poverty through wealth holdings, here those who cannot or are poor due to negative net wealth (i.e. higher debt than assets) are given the same level of attention. 3) It assesses how poverty based on income and net wealth evolved over the most recent decade, while the literature has so far mostly focused on mapping patterns at a single moment of observation. 4) It introduces a dynamic perspective by leveraging panel data for Belgium following the same households over time to study movements in and out of poverty, calculated based on income and net wealth jointly. To the best of my knowledge this is the first time a dynamic approach has been applied to the topic of income-net wealth poverty" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
-
Literaturhinweis
Measuring and Monitoring Absolute Poverty in the European Union (2025)
Menyhert, Balint; Zec, Slavica; Kvedaras, Virmantas; Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor ; Pericoli, Filippo; Mina, Benedetta;Zitatform
Menyhert, Balint, Zsombor Cseres-Gergely, Virmantas Kvedaras, Benedetta Mina, Filippo Pericoli & Slavica Zec (2025): Measuring and Monitoring Absolute Poverty in the European Union. Cham: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, XXI, 443 p. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-63953-1
Abstract
"Fueled by the recent cost of living crisis and compounding social policy challenges, absolute poverty measurement is rapidly gaining relevance in many advanced economies. Focusing on individuals' and households' minimum financial needs, absolute measures of poverty are well suited to support adequate social protection schemes and time-consistent social monitoring. The current open access publication gives a comprehensive overview of the art and science of absolute poverty measurement in an EU-wide context. It summarizes the lessons learnt from the ABSPO exploratory research project carried out by the European Commission, tasked with designing and implementing the first cross-country comparable measurement of absolute poverty in the EU. Presented as a methodological handbook for practitioners and social policy experts, the relevant material covers all aspects of the measurement process and offers a novel framework, innovative methodologies and pioneering data analysis. Taking a decidedly forward-looking and international approach to poverty thinking, ABSPO measurement tools help identify new forms and patterns of social exclusion among European societies that call for further research, improved social monitoring and effective policy action. Bálint Menyhért is an empirical economist and former research fellow at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Zsombor Cseres-Gergely is a policy economist and former research fellow at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Virmantas Kvedaras is an applied econometrician and former research fellow at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Benedetta Mina is an economist and former research assistant at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Filippo Pericoli is a quantitative economist and former research fellow at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Slavica Zec is a statistician and former research fellow at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission." (Provided by publisher)
-
Literaturhinweis
Accessibility and Capabilities: (Non‐)Take‐Up of Benefits in the Welfare Production of Poor Households (2025)
Zitatform
Nadai, Eva, Anna Gonon & Marcus Böhme (2025): Accessibility and Capabilities: (Non‐)Take‐Up of Benefits in the Welfare Production of Poor Households. In: Social Inclusion, Jg. 13. DOI:10.17645/si.10358
Abstract
"Studies of accessibility mainly focus on state welfare benefits and services. Yet, civil society actors may also provide material benefits for various needs. Drawing on the capability approach, this article examines accessibility for both state and non-state benefits from the perspective of people living in poverty. The (non-)take-up of particular benefits must be understood within the overall context of people’s welfare production, i.e., their practices of accessing, combining, and transforming resources from state, market, civil society, family, and social networks to achieve the kind of life they value. The article draws on a qualitative study examining the welfare production of 40 households living below or near the poverty line in Switzerland. It is based on three waves of semi-structured interviews, complemented by financial diaries documenting household income and expenditures. Our analysis shows how configurations of individual factors such as self-image, the endowment with social and cultural capital, and subjective cost–benefit calculations interact with institutional entitlements, conceptions of deservingness, and administrative procedures. The article identifies three ideal-typical configurations: deliberate non-take-up, extensive use of different benefits, or sporadic use of mostly small non-state benefits. Households without access to benefits are more likely to face material and social deprivation, whereas those who use both state and non-state resources enhance their capabilities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
-
Literaturhinweis
Auswirkungen des "Bildungs- und Teilhabe-Pakets“ auf arme Kinder und Jugendliche (2025)
Neske-Rixius, Norbert;Zitatform
Neske-Rixius, Norbert (2025): Auswirkungen des "Bildungs- und Teilhabe-Pakets“ auf arme Kinder und Jugendliche. In: O. Leßmann & K. Marquardsen (Hrsg.) (2025): Armut erforschen. Akteursperspektive, strukturelle Bedingungen und politische Implikationen, S. 67-81.
Abstract
"Der Bundesgesetzgeber hat zum 1. Januar 2011 Leistungen zu Bildung und Teilhabe für Kinder, Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene in Ausbildung bis 25 Jahre eingeführt. Zuvor hatte das Bundesverfassungsgericht den Begriff menschenwürdiges Existenzminimum ausdifferenziert und Anforderungen zur Ermittlung/ Festsetzung der Regelbedarfe formuliert. In der Umsetzung des Bildungs- und Teilhabepakets finden sich erhebliche strukturelle Mängel sowie eine große Streuung vor Ort. Eine Analyse von Daten der Bundesagentur für Arbeit zeigt: Der Rechtsanspruch armer Kinder und Jugendlicher wird nicht ausgeschöpft. Aber es gibt praktische Chancen für strukturelle Verbesserungen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
-
Literaturhinweis
Comparative Assessment of Asset Requirements of Minimum Income Benefit Recipients (2025)
Pacifico, Daniele; Mroczka, Joanna;Zitatform
Pacifico, Daniele & Joanna Mroczka (2025): Comparative Assessment of Asset Requirements of Minimum Income Benefit Recipients. (OECD social, employment and migration working papers 328), Paris, 52 S. DOI:10.1787/73fbcd99-en
Abstract
"Asset tests play a key role in determining eligibility for minimum income (MI) benefits in most OECD and EU countries, yet their design, implementation, and impact remain largely underexplored. While there is broad consensus in the policy community on the importance of assessing household wealth alongside income, countries apply highly diverse and often complex rules, with unclear implications for benefit adequacy, coverage, and take-up. This paper aims to fill this information gap by providing a comparative account of asset test requirements in MI schemes, drawing on a new OECD database developed with financial support from the European commission. The database maps how countries assess various asset types and introduces a novel classification framework to group asset test features and rank their potential strictness for claimants. The paper also proposes three methodological options to quantify asset test strictness at the country level and presents an empirical application to selected EU countries. The final section discusses the trade-offs in asset test design and offers policy guidance to support equitable, efficient, and sustainable targeting of MI benefits." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
-
Literaturhinweis
Ideational Power or Political Demand? Tracing the Logics of In-Work Benefit Reforms in France and the United Kingdom (2025)
Zitatform
Robertson, Ewan (2025): Ideational Power or Political Demand? Tracing the Logics of In-Work Benefit Reforms in France and the United Kingdom. In: Political studies, S. 1-28. DOI:10.1177/00323217251340856
Abstract
"In recent decades, numerous welfare states have implemented in-work benefits to ‘make work pay’ and tackle in-work poverty. To explain the adoption and institutionalization of this instrument, studies tend to emphasize either socio-political demand or ideational influences as motivators of policy decisions. However, the relative importance of these causal logics, and the relationship between them, remains ambiguous. To advance this debate, this article examines in-work benefit reforms in two welfare states: France and the United Kingdom. Examining reforms from the late 1990s to the 2010s, findings suggest that policy change and convergence were driven by an ideational rather than a demand-based logic. Reforms were more strongly motivated by the shared interpretive frameworks of policymakers and their instrumental use of ideas (ideational power) rather than the demands of voters and organized interests. This finding on the specific drivers of in-work benefits contributes wider insights into the roles of ideas in public policy." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
-
Literaturhinweis
Mehr Ungleichheit - weniger politische Teilhabe: WSI-Verteilungsbericht 2025 (2025)
Spannagel, Dorothee;Zitatform
Spannagel, Dorothee (2025): Mehr Ungleichheit - weniger politische Teilhabe: WSI-Verteilungsbericht 2025. (WSI-Report 108), Düsseldorf, 19 S.
Abstract
"Die Einkommensungleichheit in Deutschland ist seit 2010 deutlich gestiegen - insbesondere ab dem Jahr 2018. Während die Armutsquoten kontinuierlich zunehmen, bleibt der obere Rand der Einkommensverteilung weitgehend stabil. Das belegt der diesjährige Verteilungsbericht, der verdeutlicht, dass große Teile der Gesellschaft nicht vom wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung der 2010er Jahre profitiert haben. Zugleich zeigen neue Daten der WSI-Erwerbspersonenbefragung: Politische Teilhabe und Vertrauen in demokratische Institutionen sind stark vom Einkommen abhängig. Steigende materielle Ungleichheit kann somit zu einem Problem für die Demokratie werden." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
-
Literaturhinweis
Class, gender and the work of working‐class women amid turbulent times (2025)
Zitatform
Warren, Tracey, Luis Torres, Clare Lyonette & Ruth Tarlo (2025): Class, gender and the work of working‐class women amid turbulent times. In: The British journal of sociology, Jg. 76, H. 1, S. 96-113. DOI:10.1111/1468-4446.13147
Abstract
"The article focuses on the work of working-class women (WCW) amid turbulent times. Its timespan is just prior to and during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. The women's work, and the key skills involved, are fundamental to everyday lives, but both have been under-valued and under-rewarded. The pandemic shone a fresh light on the societal importance of this work and highlighted how its under-valuation and the women's systemic low pay and inferior working conditions have serious ramifications not only for individual workers and their families but for the provision of key services. The article centres WCW, at the intersection of classed and gendered disadvantage, to ask about inequalities in work experiences. Analysing nationally representative samples of thousands of workers in the UK prior to and as Covid-19 rolled out, we compare WCW with other workers. We show that the women faced both persistent and new inequalities at work: enduring low earnings, pandemic-led risks to jobs and paid hours, little opportunity to work from home or flexibly, and stressful key working roles. We reveal the heavily classed nature of some of these findings, show that others were more strongly gendered, while still others were classed and gendered outcomes that require intersectional analyses of the women's working lives." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
-
Literaturhinweis
The poverty risk of East and South-East Asian migrant households in Germany: The role of human capital, employment, and intermarriage (2025)
Zitatform
Wolbring, Tobias, Eva Köhler & Eric Fong (2025): The poverty risk of East and South-East Asian migrant households in Germany: The role of human capital, employment, and intermarriage. In: Journal for labour market research, Jg. 59. DOI:10.1186/s12651-025-00408-y
Abstract
"Poverty is on the rise in Germany. Though there are studies on immigrant earnings and poverty in Germany as separate topics, Little attention has been paid to determining the factors that contribute to the poverty of immigrant households. In this paper we focus on the socioeconomic situation of Asian households in Germany. Using a 1% sample of the population in Germany – the German Microcensus Scientific Use File for2012 to 2019 – we document the patterns of household poverty for households shared by at least one immigrant from East and South-East Asia. As compared to migrants from Vietnam, households with immigrants from other Asian countries have a markedly lower poverty rate. Furthermore, our results show support for the hypotheses developed from the equal earner model, but not from the breadwinner model. In particular, our analysis underlines the role of female employment for hedging poverty risks. In addition, intermarriage with native partners and their domestic human capital endowments play an important role for individual poverty risks of immigrants from East and South-East Asia. Implications of the findings are discussed, in particular in relation to educational attainment, dual-earner households, and female labor market participation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
-
Literaturhinweis
Building pathways to opportunity: How to ensure a more level playing field in OECD countries (2025)
Zitatform
(2025): Building pathways to opportunity. How to ensure a more level playing field in OECD countries. (OECD Policy Insights on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity 21), Paris, 13 S. DOI:10.1787/239063a4-en
Abstract
"Ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to succeed in life constitutes a fundamental principle of democracy, as well as an important source of economic growth and social inclusion. A new flagship OECD report, To Have and Have Not – How to Bridge the Gap in Opportunities, offers important new evidence on the way in which opportunities are distributed across OECD countries. In doing so, it aims to inform public debates on an issue of high relevance and help design effective policies that can ensure a more level playing field for all. This policy brief provides a condensed overview of the main insights and findings from this report. The policy brief explains why and how inequality of opportunity should be measured. It sheds light on some of the key questions covered in the report, including (i) how fairly are opportunities distributed in OECD countries; (ii) which circumstances play the largest role in shaping economic outcomes and for whom; (iii) what is the role of place and how are economic opportunities shaped by geographic divides in access to education, employment, infrastructure and essential services; and (iv) how can policy contribute to a more level playing field." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))