Developing capabilities and rights in welfare-to-work policies

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

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Abstract: 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’.

JEL-codes: J01 N0 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-03
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Published in European Societies, March, 2005, 7(1), pp. 3-26. ISSN: 1461-6696

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