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Making welfare work: UK activation policies under New Labour

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  • Robert Walker
  • Michael Wiseman

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This paper describes and briefly evaluates the major “New Deal“ activation policies introduced by the UK New Labour government since 1997. It outlines the ambitious project to modernize the UK economy and welfare state and, within this overall strategy, to end child poverty and to tackle social exclusion by encouraging movement from welfare benefits into work, and by making work pay. Three sets of New Deal programmes are discussed: those targeted on unemployed claimants, lone parents and people with disabilities. The paper concludes that real change has been achieved with measurable beneficial effects but that there are threats to the further elaboration and extension of the New Deal model.

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  • Robert Walker & Michael Wiseman, 2003. "Making welfare work: UK activation policies under New Labour," International Social Security Review, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 56(1), pages 3-29, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:intssr:v:56:y:2003:i:1:p:3-29
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-246X.00147
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    1. Gregg, Paul & Waldfogel, Jane & Washbrook, Elizabeth, 2006. "Family expenditures post-welfare reform in the UK: Are low-income families starting to catch up?," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 13(6), pages 721-746, December.
    2. Duncan Adam & Anne E Green, 2016. "Soft spaces and soft outcomes: Experiences from City Strategy on local partnership working and measures of success," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 48(8), pages 1514-1531, August.
    3. John Hills & Jane Waldfogel, 2004. "A “third way” in welfare reform? Evidence from the United Kingdom," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 23(4), pages 765-788.

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