A gendered theory of employment, unemployment, and sickness
A gendered theory of employment, unemployment, and sickness
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10.1068/c0851
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2009-12-01
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Sissons, Paul
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Beatty, Christina;Fothergill, Steve;Sissons, Paul
直到20世纪90年代，英国领取残疾福利金的比例很高一直是一个主要影响男性的问题。然而，申请失业救济的妇女人数为110万人，现在也达到了类似的规模。重工业的衰落造成大量健康状况不佳、替代就业前景有限的男子要求领取残疾津贴。然而，这一解释对妇女来说是有问题的，因为妇女的就业人数增加了。我们制定了一个框架，将劳动力需求水平在解释失业方面的核心重要性与妇女就业和领取残疾福利同时增加的矛盾相协调。在重工业衰退的地区，申请残疾津贴的妇女绝大多数与男性申请人一样，这表明劳动力市场的“男性”和“女性”之间存在联系。此外，在这些地点，可能会提高对残疾福利的了解和当地对残疾福利的接受程度。
The high level of receipt of disability benefits in the UK was until the 1990s a problem predominantly affecting men. However, the number of women claiming-1.1 million-is now on a similar scale. The decline of heavy industry produced large numbers of men with ill health and limited alternative employment prospects who claimed disability benefits. However, this explanation is problematic for women, who have seen an expansion in employment. We set out a framework that reconciles the central importance of the level of labour demand in explaining worklessness with the paradoxical simultaneous rise of women's employment and receipt of disability benefits. Women claiming disability benefits are overwhelmingly located alongside male claimants in areas where heavy industry has declined, pointing towards linkages between the 'male' and 'female' sides of the labour market. Additionally, there may be raised knowledge and local acceptance of disability benefits in these locations.