Distributive consequences of risk privatization: The case of Swedish unemployment insurance system
(2021) In Journal of Social Policy Research 66(3). p.207-235- Abstract
- The public unemployment insurance program in Sweden has retrenched in terms of its benefit generosity in the last three decades. As a response to this trend in which an ever-smaller proportion of the previous income of unemployed persons is compensated by public unemployment insurance benefit, complementary income insurance schemes provided by unions have expanded rapidly in the last 15 years and currently cover one half of the working population. What does this change mean for people who are in need of income protection upon unemployment and who are more likely to frequently find themselves in unemployment or underemployment? By analyzing survey-based benefit recipiency data among retail workers who were unemployed in 2014 this article... (More)
- The public unemployment insurance program in Sweden has retrenched in terms of its benefit generosity in the last three decades. As a response to this trend in which an ever-smaller proportion of the previous income of unemployed persons is compensated by public unemployment insurance benefit, complementary income insurance schemes provided by unions have expanded rapidly in the last 15 years and currently cover one half of the working population. What does this change mean for people who are in need of income protection upon unemployment and who are more likely to frequently find themselves in unemployment or underemployment? By analyzing survey-based benefit recipiency data among retail workers who were unemployed in 2014 this article explores the outcome of the multi-pillarized unemployment benefit provision system in Sweden. While public unemployment insurance benefit does not fully compensate for the income loss for the majority of retail workers, the promise of a complementary income insurance scheme seems to be illusory for many individuals as they constantly oscillate between precarious work and benefits accompanied by the burden of navigating a complex system. (Less)
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- Lindellee, Jayeon LU
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- publishing date
- 2021-02-26
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Ghent system, Privatization, Retrenchment, Sweden, Unemployment insurance
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- Journal of Social Policy Research
- volume
- 66
- issue
- 3
- article number
- 3
- pages
- 207 - 235
- publisher
- De Gruyter
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- 2366-0295
- DOI
- 10.1515/zsr-2020-0010
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- English
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