CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Gavazov, Marin Aleksandrov |
|---|---|
| Title | Why welfare-to-work policies aimed at lone mothers were drafted more radical in the Netherlands than in the UK in the 1996-2001: In search for answers |
| Summary | In the early 1990s, the Netherlands and the UK appeared as an exception in the EU landscape with the absence of work obligations on lone mothers on benefits with dependent children. Since the mid-1990, the tide changed its direction as governments in both countries began to consider offering lone mothers welfare for work. In 1996, the Dutch government made the reception of General Assistance by lone mothers whose children are five years of age or older conditional on work obligations; as of today, New Labour still balks at forcing lone mothers on benefits to work, but the structure of the social assistance system evolves in such a way so as to make not working a no-option. Before this research, no answer was given to the puzzle why the Netherlands took one path in drafting legislature aimed at welfare-to-work schemes for lone mothers and the UK took another. The present research finds eight possible explanations which to account for this difference. The research develops them in three interrelated chapters; political perceptions and notions of work and care, and of lone mothers, as well as the financial interests of governments hold the key to seeing why the two countries diverged in their roads of introducing lone mothers on benefits to welfare-to-work schemes. |
| Supervisor | Bohle, Dorothee |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/gavazov_marin.pdf |
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