Which Duration of Unemployment Benefits is Considered Just?

Abstract

"Welfare states allocate and redistribute scarce resources to and from various social groups. Citizens of welfare states have ideas about who should receive what kind of financial support and how much they should receive. These ideas are rooted in notions of fairness and deservingness. Our work focuses on a specific example of financial benefits in modern welfare states – the duration of unemployment benefits – and the following research question: which duration of unemployment benefits is considered as being just for which group of jobseekers? We show that different criteria such as age, reasons for unemployment, employment history and household context matter when it comes to the perceived just duration of unemployment benefits." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Osiander, C., Senghaas, M., Stephan, G., Struck, O. & Wolff, R. (2022): Which Duration of Unemployment Benefits is Considered Just? In: The social policy blog No. 23.09.2022.