Work Incentives and Welfare Provision: The 'Pathological' Theory of Unemployment (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Schroeder, Doris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138706191 ISBN 13: 9781138706194

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This title was first published in 2000:  Over the past decade the welfare state has come under sustained attack not only from quarters which never approved of its policies, but also from political theorists who used to support it. With the collapse of communism, the policy of comprehensive welfare provision came under renewed scrutiny. It was argued that its impact on work incentives is most detrimental. Examining in detail current unemployment debates within Western welfare states, this book seeks to verify or refute the view that non-work is increasingly chosen by work shy individuals - the 'pathological' theory of unemployment. Drawing from a range of disciplinary perspectives - from social philosophy and the history of philosophy, to occupational psychology and feminist economics - this interdisciplinary analysis reveals that the "pathological" theory of unemployment, with its reliance on a deficient depiction of human nature and its disregard of non-pecuniary work incentives and empirical evidence on benefit fraud, cannot be upheld.

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Doris Schroeder

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138706191
• ISBN 13: 9781138706194
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230