Activation Policy in the Czech Republic: A Failing Tool to Fight Poverty and Social Exclusion

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Activation Policy in the Czech Republic: A Failing Tool to Fight Poverty and Social Exclusion
Original language description
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this article is to investigate participants’ experiential knowledge about implementation of activation policy in the context of Czech employment policy and to find out to what extent activation policy has proved to be a tool for combating poverty and social exclusion. THEORETICAL BASE: The paper is theoretically based on street-level bureaucracy, microinstitutionalist theory, and advanced marginality. METHODS: This article is based on qualitative research of the implementation of activation policy in selected branches of the Labour Office of the Czech Republic. The data include in-depth interviews with clients registered at labour offices and interviews with clients’ social workers. OUTCOMES: It is concluded that jobseekers’ responses to the implementation of the current work-first activation policy reflect survival strategies and are rooted in ethnic, gender, and class-based inequalities in neoliberal societies. SOCIAL WORK IMPLICATIONS: Long-term unemployed need comprehensive support to overcome their social disadvantages. The activation policies must be based on social services in order to be labelled as inclusive. This is especially true for integrating groups with complex social problems in the labour market.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical
Sociální práce / Sociálna práca / Czech and Slovak Social Work
ISSN
1213-6204
e-ISSN
1805-885X
Volume of the periodical
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Issue of the periodical within the volume
22
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
36-53
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85141210042

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