Abstract
Welfare states allocate and redistribute resources across different groups. For the social legitimacy of welfare states, public support of redistributive processes and outcomes is crucial. An important aspect in this context is the deservingness or non-deservingness of benefit recipients from the perspective of those who both financially contribute to the system and potentially benefit from it. We invited a random sample of the German labour force to participate in an online-survey. Using a factorial survey experiment, we described fictitious unemployed persons with different attributes and asked survey participants on the just maximum benefit duration for each particular case. Judgements regarding just benefit durations vary along the criteria of reciprocity, control, attitude and need: Respondents grant longer unemployment benefits to older jobseekers, as well as to jobseekers who became involuntarily unemployed, had stable employment careers, have to care for the elderly or are sole earners in the household.
Highlights
Welfare states allocate and redistribute resources from and to various social groups in many ways
Citizens of welfare states have ideas about who should receive what kind of financial support and how much they should receive
The popular support regarding the outcomes of redistributive processes is crucial for the social legitimacy of the welfare state
Summary
Welfare states allocate and redistribute resources from and to various social groups in many ways. No party preference Apolitical No information on party preference General attitudes ‘The individual is not to blame for his or her unemployment’ ‘It is up to every unemployed person to change their own professional situation’ Subjective probability of being temporarily unemployed Vocational degree No vocational degree Vocational degree (ref.) University degree Labour market history between 2013 and 2017 Regular employment in the last 6 years (in years) Ever received unemployment benefits Ever received means-tested unemployment benefit Dummy: last job = part-time Last daily wage Constant Responses (vignettes) Respondents Pseudo R2
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