Welfare state, unemployment, and social justice: Judgments on the rights and obligations of the unemployed |
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Authors: | Dick Houtman |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Erasmus University, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | This article reports judgments on the rights and obligations of the unemployed in The Netherlands. A large majority of the
Dutch population is shown to support (i) the unemployed’s right to social security as well as their obligation to work, (ii)
the principle that declining a job offering should be punished, and (iii) harsh sanctions in some specific cases of job refusal.
An emphasis on the obligation to work results from conservative attitudes regarding both distributive justice (economic conservatism)
and retributive justice (cultural conservatism). Furthermore, conservative attitudes regarding distributive justice derive
from a privileged economic position (especially high income and infrequent experience of unemployment), whereas conservative
attitudes regarding retributive justice result from a restricted cultural position (low level of education, technical rather
than cultural type of education, and limited involvement in arts and culture). |
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Keywords: | welfare state unemployment political attitudes distributive justice retributive justice |
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