2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
'Activation Policy' and Social Security Reforms in the Netherlands
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25380080
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Social law
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| Research Institution | Tokai University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | オランダ / 福祉国家改革 / 社会保障制度 / 地方分権化 / 積極的労働市場政策 / 参加型社会 / 非正規雇用 / ワーキングプア |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study examines the influences of an ‘activation policy’ which has been deeply connected with labour market and social security schemes on the European welfare states reforms using a Dutch case study. Dutch welfare state reform in the 1990 introduced an activation policy which was different from the traditional social security scheme of depending on cash benefit. The policy was based on the view that participation in the labour market could solve the problems related to poverty and social exclusion. However, the policy actually increased number of‘flexible’(unstable) workers, and expanded ‘working poor’ households. Thus, this study focuses on the Dutch welfare reforms based on the activation policy, with the elements of neo-liberalism, and makes some suggestions for Japanese policy.
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| Free Research Field |
社会保障法政策
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