Deservingness, Conditionality and Public Perceptions of Work Disability
The Influence of Economic Inequality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2374475 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rossella Ciccia (0000-0001-6745-737X, University of Oxford), David French (0000-0001-9360-9429, Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author), Frank Kee (0000-0002-0606-8167, Queen's University Belfast), M G O''Doherty (0000-0001-9976-258X, Queen's University Belfast), Mark O’doherty (Queen's University Belfast) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 610-629 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0950017020967229 |
| OpenAlex | W3089321448 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 60 |
This article contributes to classical debates about the role of self-interest and social norms in shaping the moral economy of work and welfare by incorporating economic inequalities in the analysis of opinions about welfare deservingness. The relationship between inequality and perceptions of work conditionality has received little attention in previous studies. This article addresses this issue by investigating the association between economic inequalities and perceived work limitations of disabled people experiencing various conditions related to health using vignettes from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. The results show that people living in areas with higher levels of wealth inequality, but not income inequality, were more likely to rate the vignettes as limited in the amount of work that individuals can do due to health problems. This finding casts doubts on the crucial role attributed to self-interest as the central mechanism linking economic inequality and solidaristic, pro-welfare attitudes
Conditionality · Demographic economics · Economic inequality · Economics · Inequality · Perception · Political science · Social inequality · Welfare · Work (physics · Emotional Labor in Professions · Employment and Welfare Studies · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Social Psychology
In care of the state
The Disabled State
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Inequality and visibility of wealth in experimental social networks
Vignettes and Self-Reports of Work Disability in the United States and the Netherlands
Fractionalization
The Spirit Level
The Relative Importance of Welfare Deservingness Criteria
The Future of the Welfare State
British Social Attitudes
Just Institutions Matter
The Moral Economy of Welfare States
The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare
Self-interest and the common good
Social Justice, Legitimacy and the Welfare State
The Undeserving Rich
The Moral Foundations of Trust
The Small-Sample Bias of the Gini Coefficient
Benefits conditionality for disabled people
No longer deserving? Sickness benefit reform and the politics of (ill) health
Welfare conditionality and disabled people in the UK
The moral economy of inequality
The language of shirkers and scroungers?’ Talking about illness, disability and coalition welfare reform
Do institutions matter? The interplay between income benefit design, popular perceptions, and the social legitimacy of targeted welfare
The political logic of labour market reforms and popular images of target groups
Public opinion towards targeted labour market policies
Making the difference in social Europe
Retirement and the moral economy
Income inequality and solidarity in Europe
Welfare conditionality and social marginality
Social capital, income inequality, and mortality
Measurement and socio-demographic variation of social capital in a large population-based survey
Who should get what, and why? On deservingness criteria and the conditionality of solidarity among the public
The Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes
A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation
Enhancing the Validity and Cross-Cultural Comparability of Measurement in Survey Research
The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century
Work, employment and society through the lens of moral economy
Understanding changing disability-related employment gaps in Britain 1998-2011
Lay Perceptions of Inequality and Social Structure
Moral economies of the welfare state
Is solidarity less important and less functional in egalitarian contexts
Income and Income Inequality as Social Determinants of Health
Disability and Paid Employment
The Dynamics of Welfare Opinions in Changing Economic, Institutional and Political Contexts
Popular Criteria for the Welfare Deservingness of Disability Pensioners
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |