Nordic Relief Packages and Non-standard Workers: Towards Expanded Universalism and Institutional Inequalities

Has the Corona crisis triggered changes to Nordic social protection? We address this question by examining how Denmark, Finland, Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden reacted to the crisis, which in many ways resembles a Litmus-test for Nordic social protection. Analytically, we draw on historical in...

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Main Authors: Larsen, Trine P., Ilsøe, Anna
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Aalborg University, Denmark 2022
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Online Access:https://tidsskrift.dk/njwls/article/view/135099
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spelling ftkbcopenhojs:oai:ojs.tidsskrift.dk:article/135099 2023-06-11T04:13:09+02:00 Nordic Relief Packages and Non-standard Workers: Towards Expanded Universalism and Institutional Inequalities Larsen, Trine P. Ilsøe, Anna 2022-12-13 application/pdf https://tidsskrift.dk/njwls/article/view/135099 eng eng Aalborg University, Denmark https://tidsskrift.dk/njwls/article/view/135099/179874 https://tidsskrift.dk/njwls/article/view/135099 Copyright (c) 2020 Author and Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies; OnlineFirst 2245-0157 Employment Wages Unemployment & Rehabilitation Innovation & Productivity Gender Ethnicity Age and Diversity Labor Market Institutions & Social Partners info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2022 ftkbcopenhojs 2023-05-31T22:56:40Z Has the Corona crisis triggered changes to Nordic social protection? We address this question by examining how Denmark, Finland, Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden reacted to the crisis, which in many ways resembles a Litmus-test for Nordic social protection. Analytically, we draw on historical institutionalism, welfare, and segmentation literature. We find that although the Nordic relief packages aim to create an encompassing safety net, the reforms expose and sometimes reinforce institutionally embedded cracks in the Nordic systems around the nexus of standard and non-standard work, leading to potential layers of institutionally embedded inequalities. The Nordic countries have expanded and adjusted their existing social protection, portraying strong elements of path dependency, but with examples of novel initiatives. Their mix of universal and targeted measures appears to reflect so-called ‘expanded universalism’, where targeted measures supplement the ‘ordinary’ Nordic social protection to cover the most crisis ridden, but not necessarily the poorest, groups. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Tidsskrift.dk (The Royal Library, Denmark) Norway
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topic Employment
Wages
Unemployment & Rehabilitation
Innovation & Productivity
Gender
Ethnicity
Age and Diversity
Labor Market Institutions & Social Partners
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Wages
Unemployment & Rehabilitation
Innovation & Productivity
Gender
Ethnicity
Age and Diversity
Labor Market Institutions & Social Partners
Larsen, Trine P.
Ilsøe, Anna
Nordic Relief Packages and Non-standard Workers: Towards Expanded Universalism and Institutional Inequalities
topic_facet Employment
Wages
Unemployment & Rehabilitation
Innovation & Productivity
Gender
Ethnicity
Age and Diversity
Labor Market Institutions & Social Partners
description Has the Corona crisis triggered changes to Nordic social protection? We address this question by examining how Denmark, Finland, Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden reacted to the crisis, which in many ways resembles a Litmus-test for Nordic social protection. Analytically, we draw on historical institutionalism, welfare, and segmentation literature. We find that although the Nordic relief packages aim to create an encompassing safety net, the reforms expose and sometimes reinforce institutionally embedded cracks in the Nordic systems around the nexus of standard and non-standard work, leading to potential layers of institutionally embedded inequalities. The Nordic countries have expanded and adjusted their existing social protection, portraying strong elements of path dependency, but with examples of novel initiatives. Their mix of universal and targeted measures appears to reflect so-called ‘expanded universalism’, where targeted measures supplement the ‘ordinary’ Nordic social protection to cover the most crisis ridden, but not necessarily the poorest, groups.
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author Larsen, Trine P.
Ilsøe, Anna
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title Nordic Relief Packages and Non-standard Workers: Towards Expanded Universalism and Institutional Inequalities
title_short Nordic Relief Packages and Non-standard Workers: Towards Expanded Universalism and Institutional Inequalities
title_full Nordic Relief Packages and Non-standard Workers: Towards Expanded Universalism and Institutional Inequalities
title_fullStr Nordic Relief Packages and Non-standard Workers: Towards Expanded Universalism and Institutional Inequalities
title_full_unstemmed Nordic Relief Packages and Non-standard Workers: Towards Expanded Universalism and Institutional Inequalities
title_sort nordic relief packages and non-standard workers: towards expanded universalism and institutional inequalities
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