Deserving and Undeserving Welfare Claimants in Britain and the Netherlands: Examining the Role of Ethnicity and Migration Status Using a Vignette Experiment
Deserving and Undeserving Welfare Claimants in Britain and the Netherlands: Examining the Role of Ethnicity and Migration Status Using a Vignette Experiment
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DOI：
10.1093/esr/jcw010
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发表时间：
2016-06-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Kootstra, Anouk
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作者：
Kootstra, Anouk
在许多西欧国家，移民获得和使用福利一直是激烈辩论的主题。在这篇文章中，我考察了公众对失业福利申领人的声援，并集中讨论了申领人的种族背景和移民身份如何影响他们感知的逃离感。我使用了一个新颖的Vignette实验，该实验对来自英国的5000名受访者和来自荷兰的4000名受访者进行了具有代表性的样本。除了种族背景和移民身份，我还操纵了求职者的其他六个特征，如寻找新工作的努力、需求水平和工作历史。我认为，一旦考虑到这些其他因素，索赔人的种族背景就不是应得的决定性因素。在荷兰，以及在英国(程度较小)，拥有长期工作历史并努力寻找新工作的第二代少数族裔被认为与类似的多数族裔申索者一样值得。然而，这项分析确实暴露了双重标准：与类似的大多数荷兰或英国索赔人相比，表现出“不利”行为的少数民族索赔人--那些较晚移民、找不到工作或工作历史较短的人--将受到更严厉的惩罚。
Immigrants' access to and use of welfare benefits have been the subject of heated debate in many west-European countries. In this article, I examine public solidarity with unemployed welfare claimants and focus on how claimants' ethnic background and migration status affect their perceived deservingness. I use a novel vignette experiment administered among a representative sample of 5,000 respondents from Britain and 4,000 from the Netherlands. Besides ethnic background and migration status, I manipulated six other characteristics of the claimant, such as effort to find a new job, level of need, and work history. I show that the ethnic background of claimants is not a decisive factor of deservingness once these other factors are accounted for. In the Netherlands, and to a lesser extent also in Britain, second-generation ethnic minorities who have a long work history and who make much effort to find a new job are considered as deserving as similar majority claimants. However, this analyses did expose a double standard: ethnic minority claimants who exhibit 'unfavourable' behaviour-those who migrated at a later age, failed to look for work, or have a short work history-are punished more severely for this than similar majority Dutch or British claimants.