TY - JOUR
T1 - Nordic Relief Packages and Non-standard Workers
T2 - Towards Expanded Universalism and Institutional Inequalities
AU - Larsen, Trine Pernille
AU - Ilsøe, Anna
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - 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
AB - 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
KW - Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet
KW - Employment
KW - Wages
KW - Unemployment & Rehabilitation
KW - Innovation & Productivity
KW - Gender
KW - Ethnicity
KW - Age and Diversity
KW - Labor market Institutions & Social Partners
U2 - 10.18291/njwls.135099
DO - 10.18291/njwls.135099
M3 - Tidsskriftartikel
VL - 13
SP - 7
EP - 29
JO - Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies
JF - Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies
SN - 2245-0157
IS - S10
ER -