Abstract
The means-tested guaranteed minimum income, a new social assistance scheme, aims to strengthen the recipients’ re-integration into the labour market. In this article, face-to-face interviews with recipients and claimants identify forms of daily intervention set by street-level workers. In Upper Austria, the respondents face more responsibilities and help than in Styria. In both provinces, there exists a wide discrepancy in treatment, and respondents experience less help overall. Explorative path models estimate the effect of individual and administrative factors on job-search activity within the last four weeks. Older age of some respondents and poor health have an effect on job-search activity and the administrative requirement to search for a job. Respondents that obtain
a benefit for more than a year are more likely to be obliged to seek employment. Administrative requirements to search for employment affect actual job search strongly, whereas more responsibility shows marginal effects; assistance actually provided, however, indicates no effect.
a benefit for more than a year are more likely to be obliged to seek employment. Administrative requirements to search for employment affect actual job search strongly, whereas more responsibility shows marginal effects; assistance actually provided, however, indicates no effect.
Translated title of the contribution | Help and Responsibility in the Means-Tested Guaranteed Minimum Income: Empirical Findings in Upper Austria and Styria |
---|---|
Original language | German |
Journal | S W S - Rundschau |
Volume | 54 |
Issue number | 3 |
Pages (from-to) | 251-275 |
ISSN | 1013-1469 |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- means-tested guaranteed minimum income, activation, path models, job search, administration