2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
International transfer of the workfare programs-the United Kingdome and Canada from the United States-
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15530189
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic policy
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| Research Institution | Saitama University |
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Principal Investigator |
ARAI Mitsuyoshi Saitama University, Faculty of Economics, Professor, 経済学部, 教授 (90212604)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2004
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| Keywords | workfare policy / welfare to work policy / work first approach / human capital development approach / self-support of welfare leaver family / Ontario Works / New Deal for Young People / New Labour |
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| Research Abstract |
My research result is the following points. First, it was clarified that the workfare was a global policy of no limit to the United States, and containing Scandinavia nations that were an advanced welfare states. Secondarily, contents of the American type workfare policy were analyzed based on the statistical data, and the result and the limit were clarified. Thirdly, Canada faced the great difficulty politically and socially though it tried to imitate the welfare reform of the United States and to introduce the workfare policy. Fourthly, though Britain imitates the workfare policy of the United States and other nations and executed the New Deal, it was very different from the United States in the content and the point of management etc. Finally, the workfare policy composed a part of the irreversible structural reforms that globalism had been compelling to every country in the world. Moreover, this research pointed out that the object of the workfare policy was different in three coun
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tries of Britain, United States and Canada. For instance, the target of the American workfare policy was the Aid for Families with Dependent Children recipient thought to be the undeserving poor, that is, single mother family. On the other hand, the welfare recipient like the aged, the blind and a handicapped person are regarded as the deserving poor, and did not become the target of the workfare policy, and the qualification to be a welfare recipient had been secured as an entitlement. In other words, though the United States was certainly obligating a tough requirement like the lifelong time limit benefit, the compulsory participation, and the sanction, its target had been limited to entirely single mother. Therefore, it cannot necessarily be said that the workfare policy of the United States is tougher than that of Britain and Canada where the target is wider. Though the number of welfare recipients in the United States, Britain, and Canada decreased by introducing the workfare policy, it was not able to help the self-support of the welfare leaver, increased a temporary employment and part-time employment, and made labor market unstable. Less
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Research Products
(3 results)
