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Social Investment, Redistribution or Basic Income? Exploring the Association Between Automation Risk and Welfare State Attitudes in Europe
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Rapid technological change – the digitalization and automation of work – is challenging contemporary welfare states. Most of the existing research, however, focuses on its effect on labor market outcomes, such as employment or wage levels. In contrast, this paper studies the implications of technological change for welfare state attitudes and preferences. Compared to previous work on this topic, this paper adopts a much broader perspective regarding different kinds of social policy. Using data from the European Social Survey, we find that individual automation risk is positively associated with support for redistribution, but negatively with support for social investment policies (partly depending on the specific measure of automation risk that is used), while there is no statistically significant association with support for basic income. We also find a moderating effect of the overall size of the welfare state on the micro-level association between risk and preferences.
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“However, earlier research has not found strong links between automation-another disruption against which UBI might in principle provide a remedy-and political support for UBI.”
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“Although two studies from Italy find a link between objective automation risk and support for UBI (Guarascio & Sacchi, 2021;Sacchi et al., 2020), this has not been confirmed in comparative studies of UBI support (Busemeyer & Sahm, 2021;Dermont & Weisstanner, 2020).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- BUSEMEYER, M. R., & SAHM, A. H. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Konstanz (DE)
- Venue
- Journal of Social Policy
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2021-07-12
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 751-770
- ISSN
- 0047-2794 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-7823
- OpenAlex
- W3178462233
- Cited by
- 75
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 8
- FWCI
- 32.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Social Policy (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- KOPS (University of Konstanz) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Keywords
- automation risk, welfare state attitudes, redistribution, social investment, basic income, technological change, digitalization of work, welfare state size, Europe
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