... primarily draws on multiple qualitative case studies across two welfare sectors (four organizations) in Germany (continuing education/active inclusion; long-term care). The study research was conducted between 2020 and 2022 and based on 36 interviews with caseworkers and managers, focus group interviews...

...Tine Haubner Purpose In the context of a care crisis in Germany, care work done by volunteers is increasingly being semi-formalized by the state and used in professional care work contexts to relieve families and professionals. However, voluntary care has not yet been adequately studied from...

.... In the authors' factorial survey, the household composition, health status, and monthly earnings of a hypothetical in-work benefit recipient were varied experimentally. The study investigates Germany's basic income support programme, a means-tested social policy programme that targets both unemployed...

... to other welfare states, Germany implemented strong activating welfare policies with the labour market reforms in mid-2000. The reform involves the normative that welfare recipients have to recommence contributing to the household income as soon as possible (Eichhorst et al., 2010). This principle...

... and meta-studies on the effectiveness of ALMPs demonstrate (e.g. Martin and Grubb, 2001 ; Card et al., 2010 ; Kluve, 2010). However, only a few studies have assessed the net effects of participating in such programmes on self-efficacy as a component of employability. Germany Welfare...

...Cordula Zabel Purpose The aim of this paper is to study employment effects of workfare and training programs for lone mothers receiving means‐tested benefits in Germany. Design/methodology/approach The empirical analyses are based on a large‐scale administrative data set covering the entire...

...Katharina Dengler; Katrin Hohmeyer; Andreas Moczall; Joachim Wolff Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the implementation and effectiveness of an intensified activation scheme for very disadvantaged welfare recipients in Germany, used as a targeting device for a very generous wage...

...Marina Hennig; Marie Evertsson; Daniela Grunow Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on two welfare state regimes with differing degrees of de‐familialisation strategies, Germany and Sweden, to study whether and how women's career interruptions influence their labour market prospects...

...Marina Hennig; Marina Hennig; Stefan Stuth; Mareike Ebach; Anna Erika Hägglund Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how employed women perceive the reconciliation of work and family life in Denmark, Germany, France, Finland, Great Britain, Sweden and Switzerland. The paper seeks...

...Stephan Lorenz Purpose Charitable food assistance in affluent societies shows a polarisation between growing abundance, on the one hand, and social exclusion, on the other. It establishes a connection between both sides. In Germany, such charity is especially represented by the so‐called...

...Viola Burau; Signy Irene Vabo; Hildegard Theobald Purpose The paper compares the introduction of universal long‐term care schemes and the regulations of migrant care work within the framework of multi‐level governance in Austria and Germany. The aim of the paper is twofold. First, it reveals...

...Gaia di Luzio Purpose In Germany, basic nursing training still takes place at technical colleges. This type of training lacks standardisation, leaving considerable freedom to colleges and their providers. The purpose of this paper is to identify the reasons for the continuation of technical...

...Madeline Leonard; Manfred Liebel Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the emergence of pupils' firms in Germany since the beginning of the 1990s. Design/methodology/approach The exploratory study is mainly based on a survey conducted with 88 projects that were presented at a pupils...

... to be transformed into legitimate employment. Design/methodology/approach This paper evaluates the service vouchers policy initiative in Belgium and the Harz Committee policy recommendations, especially mini jobs, in Germany. Findings The finding is that although significant numbers of declared jobs have...

... conditions. Female symbolism can also favour women. Professionalisation theories help to reconstruct these processes. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Dentists Gender Germany International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 80 Gender differences, gender hierarchies and professions: an embedded...

...Reinhold Sackmann; Michael Windzio; Matthias Wingens Suggests that youth unemployment is seen in East Germany as a critical life event because not only may it “scar” individuals’ careers but there is the fear that it may be a cause of other social problems such as criminal and racist behaviour...

... their success. Answers some of these questions in a comparative way and provides a number of examples from Germany. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Women Equal opportunities Universities Germany International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 20 Women in Higher Education in Europe - A Statistical...