Targeting Benefits and Unemployed: Eligibility Criteria in Public Assistance for Third-Country Nationals' Work Protection in COVID-19 Era
Abstract
As the COVID-19 pandemic has destroyed the economic security and job prospects of many millions, policy makers have become under intense budgetary pressure to targeting benefits. Targeting benefit emphasizes that it is better to give a smaller group greater amount of support to avoid leakages, but the governance faces irregularities.
Analysing eligibility criteria in the realm of the public assistance program under targeting benefits to enable third-country nationals' transition to work in COVID-19 era is the key to understand and interpret the specific eligibility criteria for allocating public assistance for this research. Drawing on document and scholastic text in Austria, Finland, and Czech Republic, I will be analysing data with official policy document and scholarly text, and I will prepare a presentation about eligibility criteria in the realm of public assistance programs under targeting benefits to enable third-country immigrants' employment-related transition to work in COVID-19 era.
I will briefly outline the process of document and content analysis I developed. Using slides, I will outline and distinguished age, behavioural requirements, and functional impairment regulative tool that influences these country's last-resort safety nets administrative governance in contemporary COVID-19 era of neo-liberal austerity policy that may impair young third-county immigrants' transition to work.
This reflects a convergence towards a new institutional framework of enabling state that does not only increase the degree of means-tested selectivity in the public expenditure, but tactfully raise the eligibility threshold that may jeopardize minority group's belongings, social cohesion, and the building of a (post) COVIP-19 resilient society.