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- Title
'Back on the brew [benefits] again': why so many transitions from welfare into work are not sustained.
- Authors
McCollum, David
- Abstract
Employment policies have conventionally focused on the transition from welfare to work. However, many of those who leave out-of-work benefits for employment return to them again relatively quickly, meaning that some people cycle between work and welfare for much of their working lives. This article draws on 130 semi-structured interviews with work-welfare 'cyclers', service providers and employers in Glasgow and Dundee, Scotland, to investigate the causes of these detrimental transitions. An argument is developed which contends that 'bad' attitudes to paid work and 'bad' types of such work to varying degrees lie behind this form of labour market disadvantage.
- Subjects
GLASGOW (Scotland); DUNDEE (Scotland); SCOTLAND; EMPLOYMENT policy; INDUSTRIAL welfare; EMPLOYMENT changes; LABOR market
- Publication
Journal of Poverty & Social Justice, 2012, Vol 20, Issue 2, p207
- ISSN
1759-8273
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1332/175982712X652096