Nordic ESPAnet workshop for doctoral students and early career researchers

Social Citizenship, Solidarity and Sustainability – The changing landscape of welfare in the Nordic countries

10 December 2020, Online (Zoom), Oslo/Brussels time zone

Ongoing changes in the Nordic welfare states call for new understanding of social citizenship and solidarity among citizens, communities and societies, as well as social and citizens groups. The Nordic countries are faced with unprecedented structural transformations in the labour market under the fourth industrial revolution (digitalisation, robotisation, automatisation) and stronger global interdependencies (immigration, transnational enterprises, off-shoring of production). Demographic ageing and climate change have intensified discussions on how to bring about social justice in an ecologically and financially sustainable manner. New social movements have mobilised for recognition of their demands and a right to representation in the deliberation of welfare policies. Shifting balances in power between the EU, national, regional and local level of governance have changed how welfare policies are deliberated and implemented. However, the effects are asymmetrical in terms of who has benefitted from these changes and where these processes have increased social inequalities. Nordic welfare states have been unequally affected by such processes of change and also responded differently to them.

Aims

The workshop will:

*provide doctoral students and early career researchers with an opportunity to present their current work and to receive constructive feedback from an international panel of professors and peer-doctoral-students and early career researchers

*develop a supportive network of PhD and early career researchers with an interest in Nordic welfare research.

Organizer and panel members

Nordic ESPAnet board: Professor Guðný Björk Eydal (University of Iceland), Professor Helena Blomberg-Kroll (), Professor Caroline de la Porte (Copenhagen Business School), Professor Rune Halvorsen (Oslo Metropolitan University), Professor Heikki Hiilamo, (University of Helsinki / National Institute for Health and Welfare), Professor Liisa Häikiö (), Professor Jon Kvist (Roskilde University), Professor Janine Leschke (Copenhagen Business School), Professor Thomas Lorentzen (University of Bergen), Professor Kenneth Nelson (Stockholm University), Research Professor Anne Skevik Grødem (Institute for Social Research)

DRAFT PROGRAMME

10 Thursday, December

10:00 Welcome and introduction (Oslo/Brussels time zone) Prof. Rune Halvorsen, OsloMet

10:15 – 11:00, Lecture The European Union and the Nordic social model Prof. Caroline de la Porte, Copenhagen Business School

[Break 15 minutes]

11:15-12.45 Parallel paper sessions 1–3 [Break 45 minutes]

13:30-15:00 Parallel paper sessions 4–5

[Break 15 minutes]

15:15-16:00 Concluding presentation and discussion Towards the eco-welfare state. Orchestrating systemic impact Prof. Liisa Häikiö, Tampere University

Parallel Paper Sessions 1-5

For the parallel sessions we will follow the “Korpi rule”: the discussant will present and comment on the paper (10minutes), the author will then have the opportunity to give a brief comment before the Q & A. (In other words, the author will not present the paper herself/himself.)

The participants are expected to have read all the papers in their session.

Paper session 1. Chairs: Helena Blomberg, Kolbeinn Stefánsson and Rune Halvorsen

Name and title Institution & Email Discussant 11:15–11:45 Veronika J. Knize Estrada, Institute for Employment Siri Hansen Welfare recipients Research (IAB), Research Unit C2: Pedersen sanctioned, especially men! Basic Income Support and Understanding why the Activation (the Friedrich sanction risk varies by Alexander University Erlangen- gender Nuremberg) [email protected] 11:45–12:15 Tapio Koivula University of Lapland Veronika J. The role of the rights of [email protected] Knize Estrada fathers in fulfilling the best interests of the child in custody cases

12:15–12:45 Siri Hansen Pedersen Department of Comparative Tapio Koivula Determinants of wage Politics, University of Bergen inequality in advanced [email protected] democracies: a systematic literature review

Paper session 2. Chairs: Thomas Lorentzen, Paula Saikkonen and Kenneth Nelson

Name and title Institution & Email Discussant 11:15–11:45 Im Zhen University of Helsinki Lore Van Who gets labour market [email protected] Herreweghe training? Access biases of social investment in

11:45–12:15 Karl Kristian Larsson, OsloMet Im Zhen Access and inclusion in the [email protected] emerging digital welfare state 12:15–12:45 Lore Van Herreweghe Centre for Sociological Karl Kristian The accumulation of Research, University of Leuven Larsson (dis)advantage: an empirical lore.vanherreweghe investigation into parent-child @kuleuven.be financial transfers across European countries

Paper session 3. Chairs: Janine Leschke, Heikki Hiilamo and Anne Skevik Grødem

Name and title Institution & Email Discussant 11:15–11:45 Camilla Stub Lundberg OsloMet John Brauer Conflicting discourses of [email protected] citizenship and inclusion? How employers and frontline workers engage in improving disabled peoples’ labour market participation

11:45–12:15 W.I.E. (Wendy) Wesseling Department of Public Law Camilla Stub The Capability Approach and and Governance, Tilburg Lundberg Disadvantaged Youth University Participating in a Welfare-to- W.I.E.Wesseling Work Program: a Multi-Method @tilburguniversity.edu and Multi-informant Approach

12:15–12:45 John Brauer Örebro University W.I.E. Wesseling Social Citizenship in a [email protected] subsidiarized welfare state – the case of Swedish local labour market policies

Paper session 4. Chairs: Jon Kvist, Minna van Gerven and Liisa Häikiö

Name and title Institution & Email Discussant 13:45–14:15 Biao He Oslo Metropolitan Matteo Mandelli Digital Inclusion for Persons with University, Norway Disabilities in China under Covid-19 [email protected] How far has China come? – A policy review

14:15–14:45 Sami Mustikkamaa Biao He Income, welfare states and climate [email protected] policy support. The case of carbon taxes and renewable energy subsidies in Europe

14:45–15:15 Matteo Mandelli University of Milan Sami Mustikkamaa Conceptualizing eco-social policies: matteomandelli005 an analytical attempt @gmail.com

Paper session 5.:Chairs: Caroline de la Porte, Rune Halvorsen and and Kenneth Nelson

Name and title Institution & Email Discussant 13:45–14:15 Valter Sandell-Maury University of Helsinki David de Smalen, Practices of differential inclusion: valter.sandell non-EU/ETA-migrants’ access to the @helsinki.fi ‘universal’ Nordic welfare state

14:15–14:45 David de Smalen, University of Leuven Ojwang, F., Are receiving European welfare david.desmalen states ‘importing’ poverty through @kuleuven.be immigration – A decomposition analysis

14:45–15:15 Ojwang, F., University of Lapland Valter Sandell- A factual analysis of Integration of [email protected] Maury immigrant single fathers in the Nordic Countries: Analysis of immigrant single fathers from fragile contexts, and their contribution in addressing the ongoing challenges in the Nordic welfare states