Conditional generosity and deservingness in public support for European unemployment risk sharing
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- Sharon Baute, Francesco Nicoli (UGent) and Frank Vandenbroucke
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- Previous research into public support for welfare solidarity often refers to the importance of 'reciprocity', which means that generous social benefits are supported if they are matched by credible commitments to contribute by those who can. The current article adds to this body of literature by providing novel empirical evidence on the roles of generosity and conditionality in support for European unemployment insurance programmes. Drawing on a conjoint survey experiment in 13 European countries, we show that Europeans may be motivated by an ethos of reciprocity, since policy proposals that are both generous and conditional are the most popular among the general population. However, conditional generosity seems to have much more traction among those who consider the unemployed as undeserving, suggesting that EU-level policies may succeed in overcoming the diffidence of welfare sceptics if reciprocity is ensured in the architecture of the policy design.
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- PREFERENCES, SOLIDARITY, PERCEPTIONS, ATTITUDES, POLICIES, conditionality, public opinion, deservingness, European solidarity, European unemployment insurance, conjoint experiment
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8733421
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- Baute, Sharon, et al. “Conditional Generosity and Deservingness in Public Support for European Unemployment Risk Sharing.” JCMS-JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES, vol. 60, no. 3, 2022, pp. 721–40, doi:10.1111/jcms.13283.
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- Baute, S., Nicoli, F., & Vandenbroucke, F. (2022). Conditional generosity and deservingness in public support for European unemployment risk sharing. JCMS-JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES, 60(3), 721–740. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13283
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- Baute, Sharon, Francesco Nicoli, and Frank Vandenbroucke. 2022. “Conditional Generosity and Deservingness in Public Support for European Unemployment Risk Sharing.” JCMS-JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES 60 (3): 721–40. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13283.
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- Baute, Sharon, Francesco Nicoli, and Frank Vandenbroucke. 2022. “Conditional Generosity and Deservingness in Public Support for European Unemployment Risk Sharing.” JCMS-JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES 60 (3): 721–740. doi:10.1111/jcms.13283.
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- 1.Baute S, Nicoli F, Vandenbroucke F. Conditional generosity and deservingness in public support for European unemployment risk sharing. JCMS-JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES. 2022;60(3):721–40.
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- [1]S. Baute, F. Nicoli, and F. Vandenbroucke, “Conditional generosity and deservingness in public support for European unemployment risk sharing,” JCMS-JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 721–740, 2022.
@article{8733421,
abstract = {{Previous research into public support for welfare solidarity often refers to the importance of 'reciprocity', which means that generous social benefits are supported if they are matched by credible commitments to contribute by those who can. The current article adds to this body of literature by providing novel empirical evidence on the roles of generosity and conditionality in support for European unemployment insurance programmes. Drawing on a conjoint survey experiment in 13 European countries, we show that Europeans may be motivated by an ethos of reciprocity, since policy proposals that are both generous and conditional are the most popular among the general population. However, conditional generosity seems to have much more traction among those who consider the unemployed as undeserving, suggesting that EU-level policies may succeed in overcoming the diffidence of welfare sceptics if reciprocity is ensured in the architecture of the policy design.}},
author = {{Baute, Sharon and Nicoli, Francesco and Vandenbroucke, Frank}},
issn = {{0021-9886}},
journal = {{JCMS-JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES}},
keywords = {{PREFERENCES,SOLIDARITY,PERCEPTIONS,ATTITUDES,POLICIES,conditionality,public opinion,deservingness,European solidarity,European unemployment insurance,conjoint experiment}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{3}},
pages = {{721--740}},
title = {{Conditional generosity and deservingness in public support for European unemployment risk sharing}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13283}},
volume = {{60}},
year = {{2022}},
}
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