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Developing capabilities and rights in welfare-to-work policies

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  • Dean, Hartley
  • Bonvin, Jean-Michel
  • Vielle, Pascale
  • Farvaque, Nicolas

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The article, having characterised present European work-welfare policies in terms of a process of re-commodification, considers the consequences both from a capabilities and a rights perspective. Drawing on recent empirical research it seeks to bring these two perspectives together in order to illustrate an alternative ‘life-first’ approach to work-welfare policy, an approach that would reach beyond both work-first and human capital approaches and expand the possibilities presented by the policy concept of ‘work-life balance’.

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  • Dean, Hartley & Bonvin, Jean-Michel & Vielle, Pascale & Farvaque, Nicolas, 2005. "Developing capabilities and rights in welfare-to-work policies," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 3447, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    • Handle: RePEc:ehl:lserod:3447
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    1. Jean-Michel Bonvin, 2012. "Individual working lives and collective action. An introduction to capability for work and capability for voice," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 18(1), pages 9-18, February.
    2. Jürgen Volkert & Friedrich Schneider, 2011. "The Application of the Capability Approach to High-Income OECD Countries: A Preliminary Survey," CESifo Working Paper Series 3364, CESifo.
    3. Alberta Andreotti & Enzo Mingione & Emanuele Polizzi, 2012. "Local Welfare Systems: A Challenge for Social Cohesion," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 49(9), pages 1925-1940, July.
    4. Margherita Bussi & Stephan Dahmen, 2012. "When ideas circulate. A walk across disciplines and different uses of the ‘capability approach’," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 18(1), pages 91-95, February.
    5. Michael Orton, 2011. "Flourishing lives: the capabilities approach as a framework for new thinking about employment, work and welfare in the 21st century," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 25(2), pages 352-360, June.
    6. Brunner, Richard, 2017. "Why do people with mental distress have poor social outcomes? Four lessons from the capabilities approach," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 191(C), pages 160-167.

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    JEL classification:

    • N0 - Economic History - - General
    • R14 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Land Use Patterns
    • J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General

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