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SUMMARY:Taking back control: What will Brexit mean for UK social policy? -
  Kitty Stewart
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DESCRIPTION:Social policy falls predominantly under national rather than E
 uropean Union (EU) jurisdiction\, yet there are multiple ways in which soc
 ial policy and social outcomes in EU member states have been affected by E
 U membership. Drawing on existing evidence and analysis\, this paper seeks
  to map out the likely consequences of Brexit for social policy in the UK.
  It explores what ‘taking back control’ of money\, borders and laws is
  likely to mean for living standards\, access to high quality public servi
 ces\, and social and employment rights\, and asks what action the UK gover
 nment might take to limit the risks and maximise opportunities. \n\nAbout 
 the speaker:\nKitty Stewart is Associate Professor of Social Policy at the
  LSE and Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
  (CASE). She has a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute
  in Florence and joined LSE in 2001\, having previously worked at the UNIC
 EF Innocenti Research Centre in Florence. Her recent research focuses prim
 arily on the causes and consequences of child poverty. She is also a core 
 member of the CASE research team that has tracked policy\, spending and ou
 tcomes relating to poverty and inequality in the UK under successive gover
 nments since 1997. Her work on Brexit is joint work with colleagues Kerris
  Cooper and Isabel Shutes and was conducted as part of the Nuffield-funded
  Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes research programme.\nSpeakers
 :\nKitty Stewart
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SUMMARY:Is Universal Basic Income (UBI) the one size-fits-all social polic
 y of the post-pandemic era? / Employment and well-being effects of basic i
 ncome: evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment - Lena Lavinas\, 
 Olli Kangas
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DESCRIPTION:Lavinas\nThe idea of a universal basic income (UBI) has gained
  new momentum worldwide as a response to the dire consequences of the covi
 d-19 pandemic. That same call was heard amid the 2008 great recession. How
 ever\, what we have learned from the previous crisis is that “ad hoc” 
 short-term measures\, though often generous\, are insufficient to compensa
 te for losses and ensure long lasting socioeconomic security. Social polic
 ies are at a crossroads and need to be reformed. Is UBI the best move forw
 ard?  What are the advantages and drawbacks of casting UBI under the aegis
  of financialized capitalism?  \n\nKangas:\nThe Finnish basic income (BI) 
 experiment was obligatory\, randomised\, nation-wide field experiment with
  a treatment group and identical control group. There were 2\,000 randomly
  selected unemployed assigned into the treatment group. The treated were s
 omewhat (but not significantly) better than the control group in finding e
 mployment. However\, there were significant differences in the overall wel
 lbeing. The treated had fewer health and economic problems and experiences
  of bureaucracy and they were also more confident in their future capabili
 ties and in their possibilities to have influence in their lives.\n\nSpeak
 ers:\nLena Lavinas\, Olli Kangas
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SUMMARY:Climate change: the myopia of social policy - Ian Gough (Visiting 
 Professor\, LSE\; Emeritus Professor\, U of Bath)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210311T160000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Climate breakdown and ecological destruction pose real and pre
 sent threats to traditional welfare states in the global North (let alone 
 the rest of the world\, unfortunately largely omitted from this talk). Tak
 ing this seriously requires four transformations to traditional ‘social 
 policy’\, each more difficult than the last. First\, to devise and upsca
 le novel eco-social programmes to tap synergies between wellbeing and sust
 ainability via transformative investment programmes such as a Green New De
 al. Second\, to realise the best principles of the welfare state by extend
 ing the range of universal basic services in kind. Third\, to prepare for 
 a fair post-growth economy via a strategy of ‘reduce and redistribute’
 . And last\, to develop a global equity framework to meet climatic and eco
 logical threats in a globally just way that recognizes current internation
 al inequalities.\nIt is difficult to overstate how dramatic this trajector
 y is. It requires nothing less than a total and rapid reversal of our pres
 ent direction as a civilization. As the co-chair of an IPCC working group 
 put it\, ‘The next few years are probably the most important in our hist
 ory’. It is remarkable and shaming that\, with a few exceptions\, the st
 udy of social policy has hardly stirred itself to confront these challenge
 s.\nSpeakers:\nIan Gough (Visiting Professor\, LSE\; Emeritus Professor\, 
 U of Bath)
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SUMMARY:Hostile Environments: State Infrastructural Power and the Exclusio
 n of Unauthorized Migrants in Western Europe - Kimberly Morgan
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210304T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:“Immigration enforcement” often calls to mind border polic
 ing or efforts to deport undocumented migrants. Yet\, governments also inc
 reasingly employ strategies of exclusion – denying migrants access to pu
 blic and private resources in the hope of encouraging them to voluntarily 
 leave and deterring future arrivals. This paper evaluates the implementati
 on of these measures in three European countries as a way to improve our u
 nderstanding of the operation of state power. Drawing on and developing Ma
 nn’s concept of infrastructural power\, I show how implementation requir
 es both administrative coordination and linkages to social groups – qual
 ities more present in some countries than others. The features of state po
 wer reflect preexisting administrative systems for population oversight\, 
 as well as the nature of industrial relations\, both of which provide reso
 urces state officials redeploy for immigration control. In instituting the
 se measures\, officials augment their capacities for overseeing non-migran
 ts as well\, so that all citizens and denizens are subject to increased su
 pervision.\nSpeakers:\nKimberly Morgan
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SUMMARY:Family changes and incipient political responses in a context of h
 igh inequalities: Latin America before and since COVID - Merike Blofield (
 GIGA)
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DESCRIPTION:Latin America has the world’s highest out-of-wedlock births\
 , high rates of lone motherhood\, and high rates of child poverty. What -i
 f anything-have governments done over the past two decades to promote gend
 er-equal family policies and reduce child poverty? This presentation outli
 nes social changes in families in the context of high socio-economic inequ
 alities\, highlighting the (understudied) role of fathers. It will then fo
 cus on a conceptual and empirical overview of policy responses\, and discu
 ss both potential causes as well as implications for the current COVID cri
 sis and its aftermath\nSpeakers:\nMerike Blofield (GIGA)
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SUMMARY:Fairwork in an Unfair World: Resisting Platform Capitalism - Matth
 ew Cole (University of Oxford)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210204T160000Z
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DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, the labour market has been marked by the ris
 e of AI and data-driven technologies that have enabling the platform to be
 come a market-leading a model of organisation. The economic aim of the pla
 tform is to profit through the infrastructure that they have created\, ext
 ending the logic of capital to commodify activities and networks that were
  previously outside the market space. Platforms tend to scale rapidly beyo
 nd national boundaries and regulations\, which many take advantage of to d
 rive down labour costs\, undermining hard-won social protections for worke
 rs. The Fairwork project aims to counter the power of platform capital by 
 highlighting the best and worst management practices while advocating for 
 more a more just and sustainable working life.\nSpeakers:\nMatthew Cole (U
 niversity of Oxford)
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SUMMARY:Locally Controlled Minimum Wages Are No Closer to Public Preferenc
 es - Gabor Simonovits (CEU)\, Julia Payson (NYU)
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DESCRIPTION:Does decentralizing policymaking authority lead to a closer ma
 tch between public policies and citizen preferences? We study this questio
 n in the context of U.S. minimum wage laws. Using novel survey data and ag
 gregation methods\, we generate estimates of minimum wage preferences for 
 all U.S. cities and compare them to actual minimum wages. We find that pre
 vailing minimum wages are generally lower than residents prefer\, and this
  conservative bias is most pronounced in states with pre-emption laws. How
 ever\, locally controlled minimum wages leapfrog public preferences and ar
 e higher than residents want\, on average. Finally\, we consider how vario
 us counterfactual policies might improve representation and conclude that 
 a top-down approach with minimum wages tailored to local conditions would 
 produce the closest match between preferences and policies.\nSpeakers:\nGa
 bor Simonovits (CEU)\, Julia Payson (NYU)
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SUMMARY:Regimes of inequality and Covid-19: How the welfare states of the 
 past affect health inequalities in the pandemic - Julia Lynch (University 
 of Pennsylvania)
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DESCRIPTION:The talk will discuss findings from my just-pre-pandemic book\
 , Regimes of Inequality: The Political Economy of Health and Wealth (Cambr
 idge University Press 2020)\, to shed light on the causes of cross-nationa
 l similarities and differences and in social policy responses to Covid-19.
  Welfare regimes of the trente glorieuses cast long shadows\, interacting 
 with place-specific forms of neoliberalism in the 1990s and 2000s to short
 -circuit efforts to reduce inequalities in health and underlying socioecon
 omic status.  Legacies of these earlier welfare regimes continue to shape 
 governments' efforts to control health inequalities during the COVID-19 er
 a.\nSpeakers:\nJulia Lynch (University of Pennsylvania)
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