Getting Sick and Disabled People off Temporary Benefit Receipt: Strategies and Dilemmas in the Welfare State’s Frontline

This article explores responses by frontline workers in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service (NAV) to activation policy measures. Frontline workers in NAV are required to write work capability assessments for long-term sick and disabled benefit recipients within a reformed organizational structu...

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Main Author: Heidi Moen Gjersøe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Aalborg University 2016-03-01
Series:Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies
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Online Access:https://tidsskrift.dk/njwls/article/view/26656