Does Ethnicity Affect Allocation of Unemployment-Related Benefits to Job Center Clients? A Survey-Experimental Study of Representative Bureaucracy in Denmark

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ID2116332
AuthorsAnders Esmark (0000-0002-5014-5246, University of Copenhagen), Mikkel Bech Liengaard (University of Copenhagen)
Year2024
Volume53
Issue1
Pages107-128
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047279422000034
OpenAlexW4214640259
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited46

The role of street-level bureaucracy in social policy has been taken up by two relatively distinct streams of research, based on Lipsky's foundational work (2010). One group of literature has focused on the organizational working conditions, practices and coping mechanisms of street-level bureaucrats, their impact on the implementation of political programs and reforms, and the scope for discretion in the face of political pressures and institutional demands (Brodkin and Marston, 2013; Jessen and Tufte, 2014; Breit et al., 2016; Van Berkel et al., 2017; van Berkel, 2020). Starting from a focus on interaction with clients and the direct impact of discretionary decisions 'on people's lives' (Lipsky, 2010, 8), a second group of studies has focused more on differences in allocation of benefits caused by perceived 'deservingness' and discrimination among street-level bureaucrats (Altreiter and Leibetseder, 2014; Terum et al., 2018; Jilke and Tummers, 2018

Bureaucracy · Coping (psychology) · Demographic economics · Discretion · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Unemployment · Gender Politics and Representation · Labor Movements and Unions · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology

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