Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to submit paper proposals to our stream ‘Health, employment status and disability: a comparative and institutional perspective’ organized at the next ESPAnet conference in 2017.
Kind regards,
The stream convenors,
Josephine Foubert, POS+, Department of Sociology, Ghent University
Veerle Buffel, HeDeRa, Department of Sociology, Ghent University
Kristian Heggebø, Senior Researcher, NOVA Norwegian Social Research.
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When?
September 14-16 2017
Where?
Lisbon
Deadline for abstracts?
March 15 2017
What?
In light of longer working lives, population ageing and the aftermath of the financial crisis, several countries have focused on the activation of social security systems during the last decades. Key elements of this approach are stricter unemployment benefit entitlement criteria and strengthened job search incentives. In addition, governments have implemented policies to strengthen the labour market attachment of people with ill health, most notably by activation measures in disability benefit schemes. This is motivated both by an ambition to increase social participation and integration among people with ill health, and also by the idea that the relative generosity of (disability) benefits acts as a ‘disincentive’, and hence pushes workers with bad health out of the labour market altogether.
Despite the central gatekeeping role of welfare state institutions in defining disability as a status, research on the interrelationship between ill health, employment status, and social policies is still in its infancy. In this stream, we depart from the idea that disability is a complex phenomenon that reflects the organization of the physical and social environment. Hence, what is means to be ‘disabled’ varies across time, cultures and societies. We welcome contributions to the development of an institutional perspective on disability status. Disability can be understood both as a labour market position or as a subjective status. In order to get a better understanding of the disability concept, we are interested in comparative research. Explorations of ill health, unemployment, and disability across different institutional contexts and differing levels (e.g. countries, regions) and/or over time are particularly welcome. Studies of interest may range from comparing disability policies across countries to what institutional settings that enable/hamper people with ill health to participate in the labour market.
More details:
http://espanetlisbon2017.eu/papers/
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