Monika Senghaas
Biographic Data
| ID | 175313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monika Senghaas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monika |
| FAMILY NAME | Senghaas |
| SIGNATURE | SENGHAAS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9866-634X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Welfare Conditionality as Administrative Burden: The Perceived Costs of (Potential) Sanctions and How Welfare Claimants Cope With It
In many welfare programmes, non‐compliance with requirements such as attending appointments with caseworkers or providing evidence of job search efforts can lead to (partial) benefit reductions. Sanctions have consequences for labour market outcomes, but their impact on welfare claimants is broader. Drawing on research into administrative burden, street‐level bureaucracy and citizens' behaviour in dealing with public administration, this study ex…
Vocational training during the Covid ‐19 pandemic: Under what conditions does the public support state subsidies for training firms
This article presents novel empirical findings on whether and under what conditions the public supports apprenticeship subsidies paid to training firms during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Drawing on the literature on justice research and deservingness theory, we construct an experimental factorial survey among individuals from German administrative records. The findings suggest selective support targeting the neediest firms, for example, small firms an…
Effects of Prepaid Postage Stamps and Postcard Incentives in a Web Survey Experiment
Even small monetary incentives, e.g., a one-dollar bill in a postal invitation letter, can increase the response rate in a web survey. However, in the euro currency area, the smallest amount of monetary incentive for a postal invitation is a five-euro bill, which is costly. As such, we conducted a random experiment with prepaid stamp and postcard incentives as affordable alternatives. We compare the effect of our experimental groups with a contro…
Auf dem Weg zum Bürgergeld: Die Sanktionspraxis nach dem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts und ‚in Zeiten von Corona‘
Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat im November 2019 eine grundlegende Reform der Sanktionsregelungen im SGB II angestoßen. In diesem Beitrag gehen wir der Frage nach, wie sich dieses Urteil auf die Sanktionspraxis der Mitarbeitenden in den Jobcentern auswirkt. Im Anschluss an die Forschung zur Street-Level Bureaucracy wird die Sanktionspraxis in den Jobcentern als routinisierte Reaktion auf eine strukturelle Überforderung verstanden, die aus teilwe…
Which Duration of Unemployment Benefits is Perceived as Being Just for Which Groups? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment in Germany
Welfare states allocate and redistribute resources across different groups. For the social legitimacy of welfare states, public support of redistributive processes and outcomes is crucial. An important aspect in this context is the deservingness or non-deservingness of benefit recipients from the perspective of those who both financially contribute to the system and potentially benefit from it. We invited a random sample of the German labour forc…
The perceived fair duration of unemployment benefits for older workers. The role of lifetime achievements in the labour market
The welfare state regulates social policies and reallocates scarce resources. For the social legitimacy of the welfare state, it is important that the public supports the principles underlying this reallocation. This article examines the impact of different activities during the life course on public deservingness perceptions of older unemployed people. In a factorial survey experiment conducted among a random sample of individuals drawn from Ger…
Which capital do you mobilise? How bureaucratic encounters shape jobseekers’ social and cultural capital in France and Germany
Based on participant observations in the French and German public employment services (PES), this article proposes a new way of analysing bureaucratic encounters following Bourdieu’s capital theory. We show that caseworkers who are supposed to support jobseekers into employment, force the allegedly needy jobseekers to accumulate capital, but only in its cultural or social form, and never both at the same time. While there are national differences…
Fairness perceptions regarding in-work benefits: A survey experiment
Purpose In many countries, individuals can receive welfare support whilst simultaneously being employed. The level of earned income that welfare recipients are allowed to keep has long been a subject of debate. Core issues include whether in-work benefit regulations provide incentives for individuals to expand labour market participation and are thus also socially effective and whether the population perceives welfare benefits for individuals who…
Placement Advisors as Innovators. How Professionals Use Enhanced Discretion in Germany's Public Employment Services
Employees of the public employment services (PES) are street-level bureaucrats who shape activation policy on the ground. This paper examines how PES staff use enhanced discretion in an innovation project carried out by the German Federal Employment Agency. Applying a bottom-up perspective, we reconstruct PES employees' logic of action and the dilemmas they face in improving counselling and placement services. According to our findings, placement…
Arbeitsvermittlung im Spannungsfeld von Dienstleistung und Kontrolle – Eine multimethodische Studie zu Eingliederungsvereinbarungen in der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende
Arbeitsvermittler*innen wenden als Street-Level Bureaucrats die Bestimmungen des Sozialgesetzbuches II auf einzelne Bürger*innen an. Sie handeln dabei im Spannungsfeld der institutionellen Logiken von Dienstleistung und Kontrolle, die über die sogenannte Eingliederungsvereinbarung – einem Vertrag zwischen Jobcenter und Arbeitsuchenden – handlungsrelevant werden. Der Beitrag untersucht anhand standardisierter und qualitativer Befragungen von Arbe…
Längeres Arbeitslosengeld in der Krise? Covid-19 und die angemessene maximale Bezugsdauer
Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Frage, welche Bezugsdauern des Arbeitslosengeldes für welche Personengruppen als angemessen betrachtet werden und ob sich diese Einschätzungen während der Covid-19-Pandemie verändert haben. Längere Bezugsdauern können die Einkommenssituation der Betroffenen stabilisieren und die Suche nach einer qualifikationsadäquaten oder besser entlohnten Stelle unterstützen. Längere Zahlungen mindern aber auch den Druck zur Arbei…
Arbeitsvermittlung im Spannungsfeld von Dienstleistung und Kontrolle – Eine multimethodische Studie zu Eingliederungsvereinbarungen in der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende
Arbeitsvermittler*innen wenden als Street-Level Bureaucrats die Bestimmungen des Sozialgesetzbuches II auf einzelne Bürger*innen an. Sie handeln dabei im Spannungsfeld der institutionellen Logiken von Dienstleistung und Kontrolle, die über die sogenannte Eingliederungsvereinbarung – einem Vertrag zwischen Jobcenter und Arbeitsuchenden – handlungsrelevant werden. Der Beitrag untersucht anhand standardisierter und qualitativer Befragungen von Arbe…
Arbeitsvermittlung zwischen Nachhaltigkeit und Abbildbarkeit. Wie Vermittlungsfachkräfte Entscheidungsspielräume nutzen
Dieser Artikel untersucht, wie Beschäftigte in Agenturen für Arbeit zusätzliche Entscheidungsspielräume in der Arbeitsvermittlung nutzen und dabei Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik als Street-Level Bureaucrats umsetzen. Anhand der Analyse qualitativer Interviews und Gruppendiskussionen mit Vermittlungsfachkräften rekonstruieren wir, dass Vermittlungsfachkräfte ihre Entscheidungsspielräume einsetzen, um Individualität und Vertrauen in der Beziehung …
Street-Level Judgements about Welfare Deservingness: How Jobcentre Advisors Decide about the Individual Mix of ‘Support’ and ‘Demand’ in the Delivery of Activation Policies
This article examines how jobcentre advisors judge the individual deservingness of their clients and investigates what role these judgements play in translating activation policies into practice. The analysis draws on qualitative data gathered in a research project on back-to-work agreements that involved several German jobcentres. It is shown that advisors vary the intensity of ‘demand’ depending on whether benefit recipients fulfil reciprocity …
Practices of activation in frontline interactions: Coercion, persuasion, and the role of trust in activation policies in Germany
Following Michael Lipsky's well‐known argument that policy is made in the daily encounters between street‐level bureaucracy and citizens, a growing body of research emphasizes that actors and organizations delivering social and labor‐market policy play a crucial role in welfare‐state politics. Using qualitative data collected at three local employment agencies in Germany, this article explores worker‐client relations as a crucial mechanism throug…
Die Territorialisierung Sozialer Sicherung: Raum, Identität und Sozialpolitik in der Habsburgermonarchie
Die Territorialisierung Sozialer Sicherung: Raum, Identität und Sozialpolitik in der Habsburgermonarchie
Practices of activation in frontline interactions: Coercion, persuasion, and the role of trust in activation policies in Germany
Following Michael Lipsky's well‐known argument that policy is made in the daily encounters between street‐level bureaucracy and citizens, a growing body of research emphasizes that actors and organizations delivering social and labor‐market policy play a crucial role in welfare‐state politics. Using qualitative data collected at three local employment agencies in Germany, this article explores worker‐client relations as a crucial mechanism throug…
Street-Level Judgements about Welfare Deservingness: How Jobcentre Advisors Decide about the Individual Mix of ‘Support’ and ‘Demand’ in the Delivery of Activation Policies
This article examines how jobcentre advisors judge the individual deservingness of their clients and investigates what role these judgements play in translating activation policies into practice. The analysis draws on qualitative data gathered in a research project on back-to-work agreements that involved several German jobcentres. It is shown that advisors vary the intensity of ‘demand’ depending on whether benefit recipients fulfil reciprocity …
Placement Advisors as Innovators. How Professionals Use Enhanced Discretion in Germany's Public Employment Services
Employees of the public employment services (PES) are street-level bureaucrats who shape activation policy on the ground. This paper examines how PES staff use enhanced discretion in an innovation project carried out by the German Federal Employment Agency. Applying a bottom-up perspective, we reconstruct PES employees' logic of action and the dilemmas they face in improving counselling and placement services. According to our findings, placement…
Which Duration of Unemployment Benefits is Perceived as Being Just for Which Groups? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment in Germany
Welfare states allocate and redistribute resources across different groups. For the social legitimacy of welfare states, public support of redistributive processes and outcomes is crucial. An important aspect in this context is the deservingness or non-deservingness of benefit recipients from the perspective of those who both financially contribute to the system and potentially benefit from it. We invited a random sample of the German labour forc…
Arbeitsvermittlung zwischen Nachhaltigkeit und Abbildbarkeit. Wie Vermittlungsfachkräfte Entscheidungsspielräume nutzen
Dieser Artikel untersucht, wie Beschäftigte in Agenturen für Arbeit zusätzliche Entscheidungsspielräume in der Arbeitsvermittlung nutzen und dabei Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik als Street-Level Bureaucrats umsetzen. Anhand der Analyse qualitativer Interviews und Gruppendiskussionen mit Vermittlungsfachkräften rekonstruieren wir, dass Vermittlungsfachkräfte ihre Entscheidungsspielräume einsetzen, um Individualität und Vertrauen in der Beziehung …
Die Territorialisierung Sozialer Sicherung: Raum, Identität und Sozialpolitik in der Habsburgermonarchie
Die Territorialisierung Sozialer Sicherung: Raum, Identität und Sozialpolitik in der Habsburgermonarchie
Practices of activation in frontline interactions: Coercion, persuasion, and the role of trust in activation policies in Germany
Following Michael Lipsky's well‐known argument that policy is made in the daily encounters between street‐level bureaucracy and citizens, a growing body of research emphasizes that actors and organizations delivering social and labor‐market policy play a crucial role in welfare‐state politics. Using qualitative data collected at three local employment agencies in Germany, this article explores worker‐client relations as a crucial mechanism throug…
Street-Level Judgements about Welfare Deservingness: How Jobcentre Advisors Decide about the Individual Mix of ‘Support’ and ‘Demand’ in the Delivery of Activation Policies
This article examines how jobcentre advisors judge the individual deservingness of their clients and investigates what role these judgements play in translating activation policies into practice. The analysis draws on qualitative data gathered in a research project on back-to-work agreements that involved several German jobcentres. It is shown that advisors vary the intensity of ‘demand’ depending on whether benefit recipients fulfil reciprocity …
Arbeitsvermittlung im Spannungsfeld von Dienstleistung und Kontrolle – Eine multimethodische Studie zu Eingliederungsvereinbarungen in der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende
Arbeitsvermittler*innen wenden als Street-Level Bureaucrats die Bestimmungen des Sozialgesetzbuches II auf einzelne Bürger*innen an. Sie handeln dabei im Spannungsfeld der institutionellen Logiken von Dienstleistung und Kontrolle, die über die sogenannte Eingliederungsvereinbarung – einem Vertrag zwischen Jobcenter und Arbeitsuchenden – handlungsrelevant werden. Der Beitrag untersucht anhand standardisierter und qualitativer Befragungen von Arbe…
Längeres Arbeitslosengeld in der Krise? Covid-19 und die angemessene maximale Bezugsdauer
Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Frage, welche Bezugsdauern des Arbeitslosengeldes für welche Personengruppen als angemessen betrachtet werden und ob sich diese Einschätzungen während der Covid-19-Pandemie verändert haben. Längere Bezugsdauern können die Einkommenssituation der Betroffenen stabilisieren und die Suche nach einer qualifikationsadäquaten oder besser entlohnten Stelle unterstützen. Längere Zahlungen mindern aber auch den Druck zur Arbei…
Arbeitsvermittlung im Spannungsfeld von Dienstleistung und Kontrolle – Eine multimethodische Studie zu Eingliederungsvereinbarungen in der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende
Arbeitsvermittler*innen wenden als Street-Level Bureaucrats die Bestimmungen des Sozialgesetzbuches II auf einzelne Bürger*innen an. Sie handeln dabei im Spannungsfeld der institutionellen Logiken von Dienstleistung und Kontrolle, die über die sogenannte Eingliederungsvereinbarung – einem Vertrag zwischen Jobcenter und Arbeitsuchenden – handlungsrelevant werden. Der Beitrag untersucht anhand standardisierter und qualitativer Befragungen von Arbe…
Arbeitsvermittlung zwischen Nachhaltigkeit und Abbildbarkeit. Wie Vermittlungsfachkräfte Entscheidungsspielräume nutzen
Dieser Artikel untersucht, wie Beschäftigte in Agenturen für Arbeit zusätzliche Entscheidungsspielräume in der Arbeitsvermittlung nutzen und dabei Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik als Street-Level Bureaucrats umsetzen. Anhand der Analyse qualitativer Interviews und Gruppendiskussionen mit Vermittlungsfachkräften rekonstruieren wir, dass Vermittlungsfachkräfte ihre Entscheidungsspielräume einsetzen, um Individualität und Vertrauen in der Beziehung …
Which Duration of Unemployment Benefits is Perceived as Being Just for Which Groups? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment in Germany
Welfare states allocate and redistribute resources across different groups. For the social legitimacy of welfare states, public support of redistributive processes and outcomes is crucial. An important aspect in this context is the deservingness or non-deservingness of benefit recipients from the perspective of those who both financially contribute to the system and potentially benefit from it. We invited a random sample of the German labour forc…
The perceived fair duration of unemployment benefits for older workers. The role of lifetime achievements in the labour market
The welfare state regulates social policies and reallocates scarce resources. For the social legitimacy of the welfare state, it is important that the public supports the principles underlying this reallocation. This article examines the impact of different activities during the life course on public deservingness perceptions of older unemployed people. In a factorial survey experiment conducted among a random sample of individuals drawn from Ger…
Which capital do you mobilise? How bureaucratic encounters shape jobseekers’ social and cultural capital in France and Germany
Based on participant observations in the French and German public employment services (PES), this article proposes a new way of analysing bureaucratic encounters following Bourdieu’s capital theory. We show that caseworkers who are supposed to support jobseekers into employment, force the allegedly needy jobseekers to accumulate capital, but only in its cultural or social form, and never both at the same time. While there are national differences…
Fairness perceptions regarding in-work benefits: A survey experiment
Purpose In many countries, individuals can receive welfare support whilst simultaneously being employed. The level of earned income that welfare recipients are allowed to keep has long been a subject of debate. Core issues include whether in-work benefit regulations provide incentives for individuals to expand labour market participation and are thus also socially effective and whether the population perceives welfare benefits for individuals who…
Placement Advisors as Innovators. How Professionals Use Enhanced Discretion in Germany's Public Employment Services
Employees of the public employment services (PES) are street-level bureaucrats who shape activation policy on the ground. This paper examines how PES staff use enhanced discretion in an innovation project carried out by the German Federal Employment Agency. Applying a bottom-up perspective, we reconstruct PES employees' logic of action and the dilemmas they face in improving counselling and placement services. According to our findings, placement…
Effects of Prepaid Postage Stamps and Postcard Incentives in a Web Survey Experiment
Even small monetary incentives, e.g., a one-dollar bill in a postal invitation letter, can increase the response rate in a web survey. However, in the euro currency area, the smallest amount of monetary incentive for a postal invitation is a five-euro bill, which is costly. As such, we conducted a random experiment with prepaid stamp and postcard incentives as affordable alternatives. We compare the effect of our experimental groups with a contro…
Auf dem Weg zum Bürgergeld: Die Sanktionspraxis nach dem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts und ‚in Zeiten von Corona‘
Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat im November 2019 eine grundlegende Reform der Sanktionsregelungen im SGB II angestoßen. In diesem Beitrag gehen wir der Frage nach, wie sich dieses Urteil auf die Sanktionspraxis der Mitarbeitenden in den Jobcentern auswirkt. Im Anschluss an die Forschung zur Street-Level Bureaucracy wird die Sanktionspraxis in den Jobcentern als routinisierte Reaktion auf eine strukturelle Überforderung verstanden, die aus teilwe…
Vocational training during the Covid ‐19 pandemic: Under what conditions does the public support state subsidies for training firms
This article presents novel empirical findings on whether and under what conditions the public supports apprenticeship subsidies paid to training firms during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Drawing on the literature on justice research and deservingness theory, we construct an experimental factorial survey among individuals from German administrative records. The findings suggest selective support targeting the neediest firms, for example, small firms an…
Welfare Conditionality as Administrative Burden: The Perceived Costs of (Potential) Sanctions and How Welfare Claimants Cope With It
In many welfare programmes, non‐compliance with requirements such as attending appointments with caseworkers or providing evidence of job search efforts can lead to (partial) benefit reductions. Sanctions have consequences for labour market outcomes, but their impact on welfare claimants is broader. Drawing on research into administrative burden, street‐level bureaucracy and citizens' behaviour in dealing with public administration, this study ex…
Political science (13 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (10 works) · Economics (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · German (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)