...Amanda Tuomola; Paula Saikkonen Purpose This study examines how individual assessment in social assistance is shaped within screen-level bureaucracy, focussing on the role of guidelines and ICT (information and communication technology) systems in decision-making in digitalised welfare...

...Sergio Sánchez-Castiñeira Purpose This study aims to identify the street-level approaches of professional workers in complex public social service organisations when attending to social assistance claimants. Design/methodology/approach The study employed a multifaceted approach comprising...

...Silvia Girardi; Valeria Pulignano; Roland Maas The purpose of this paper is to discuss how employment regulations and stigma, arising from working for welfare in “public works”, limit the social inclusion of social assistance beneficiaries. Activation in “public works” is meant for those...

...Kerem Gabriel Öktem; Cansu Erdogan Purpose Over the last four decades, Turkey has built an elaborate social assistance regime, which provides extensive coverage of the poor but lacks some of the key characteristics of European minimum income protection systems. The purpose of this paper...

... analysis of public attitudes towards vulnerable groups in the South Caucasus. It also contributes to the scarce literature on perceived welfare deservingness of social assistance recipients and public preferences for imposing conditionality on them. In addition, it presents a strong case for using more...

... poverty while neglecting other important poverty indicators, such as deprivation or the receipt of social assistance. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the latter to investigate the impact of social stratification (e.g. social class), life course risks (e.g. health problems), and their interactions...

... household incomes and social inclusion. Tomas Sirovatka can be contacted at: sirovatk@fss.muni.cz © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Social assistance Activation models Compost model of policy making Workfare The paper is structured as follows: in the next section, we...

...Haomiao Zhang Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess China’s urban social assistance policy, mainly by examining the findings of in-depth interviews with urban Dibao recipients in Chengdu about their experiences with social assistance, and by comparing what the social assistance offers...

... be contacted at: bettina.leibetseder@jku.at © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Social assistance Activation Austria Group discussions Social policy Social inclusion The modernised social assistance benefit called means tested guaranteed minimum income (MGMI) provides a stronger...

...Renate Minas; Sharon Wright; Rik van Berkel Purpose The purpose of this article is to examine the governance of activation in relation to the decentralization and centralization of activation for social assistance recipients in Sweden, The Netherlands and the UK. Design/methodology/approach...