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- Title
Kelan etuuskäsittelijöiden näkemykset köyhyyden syistä.
- Authors
Niemelä, Mikko
- Abstract
This article examines attributions for poverty among street-level officials of Social Security Institution of Finland (Kela). The main question is whether attributions for poverty vary between the different categories of the poor - the immigrants, families with children and the retirees. The data derive from an e-mail survey conducted at the Social Insurance Institution of Finland in 2008 (N = 893). The results indicate that social security officials share distinctive causal beliefs when it comes to the different categories of the poor. When moving from the retired to families with children and to the immigrants, support for explanations which blame the individual increases and support for explanations which blame structural conditions decreases. Applied multivariate analysis shows that attributions for the causes of poverty can not be explained by traditional demographic or occupation related factors. They are, however, strongly connected to the attitudes toward social benefit fraud and the non-use of social benefits.
- Subjects
FINLAND; POVERTY research; CAUSAL models; INTERNET surveys; PUBLIC officers; SOCIAL security; FRAUD; ATTITUDE (Psychology) -- Social aspects; MULTIVARIATE analysis; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Janus, 2010, Vol 18, Issue 4, p337
- ISSN
1235-7812
- Publication type
Article