The Employment Lottery

Risk and Social Security Benefits

Bibliographic Data

ID6326317
AuthorsJane Millar (0000-0002-9903-7975, Lecturer in Social Policy, Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy, University of Bath), Kenneth Cooke (formerly Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Unit, University of York), Kenneth R Cooke (0000-0002-0275-6931, University of York), Eithne Mclaughlin (Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Unit, University of York)
Year1989
Volume17
Issue1
Pages75-81
Publication date1989-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolicy & Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442
PublisherBristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/030557389783219451
OpenAlexW1975852215
LanguageEN
Citations received2

Income support policy towards unemployed families is based on certain assumptions about financial incentives and how these affect behaviour. In order to examine how unemployed people actually perceive financial incentives 55 unemployed families were interviewed in depth about their perceptions, beliefs and attitudes. The families were willing to accept fairly low wages but the main barrier to taking a low-paid job and supplementing wages with means-tested benefits was the uncertainty and risk this was perceived to involve, in particular during the period of the transition from unemployment to work. The policy implications of these findings are discussed in the final section

Affect (linguistics · Business · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Incentive · Income Support · Labour economics · Lottery · Order (exchange · Perception · Social security · Unemployment · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Psychology · Finance

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