BACKGROUND Long-term recipients of social assistance face barriers to social and economic inclusion, and have poorer health and more limited opportunities for improving their health than many other groups in the population. During recent decades there have been changes in Swedish social policy, with cutbacks in public benefits and a re-emphasis on means-tested policies. In this context, it is i...

The article tackles the characteristics of social work in Italy, focusing on some specific features this professional domain within broader frame Italian welfare system. Indeed, given historical roots regime and model governance policies, assistance benefits services are less developed component provisions. This is one reasons for late full acknowledgement regulation worker at national level. I...

BACKGROUND The rampant urbanization and medical marketization in China have resulted in increased vulnerabilities to health and socioeconomic disparities among the rural migrant workers in urban China. In the Chinese context, the socioeconomic characteristics of rural migrant workers have attracted considerable research attention in the recent past years. However, to date, no previous studies h...

We present evidence on the causes and consequences of workers’ social ties in the workplace on individual and firm performance. To do so, we combine firm personnel records on individual productivity with a survey we administered to workers to identify their social network of friends within the firm. Our findings indicate there are social incentives — the presence of friends affects worker’s beh...

Since the introduction of the first neoliberal budgets in the mid-1980s, Canadian social service workers have had ample reason to resist changes in their work lives. Drawing on literature as well as on themes emerging from an intentionally diverse subset of data collected as part of a multiyear study, this article explores the resistance strategies of female, First Nations social workers and so...

Police officers and social workers are key actors in the forced repatriation of unaccompanied asylum-seeking refugee children. Police officers are tasked with arranging the children’s departure, whereas social workers are responsible for the children’s well-being during their stay in Sweden. To gain a better understanding of how to handle stressors and cope effectively with forced repatriation ...