This special issue of the Journal of Poverty & Social Justice has two aims. Firstly to provide new evidence on the implementation and impacts of conditionality for disabled benefits claimants in order to provide an empirical foundation for the contested claims on both sides of this debate and secondly to prompt further research in this area.
Article titles in this issue are:
Benefits conditionality for disabled people: stylised facts from a review of international evidence and practice
Does sanctioning disabled claimants of unemployment insurance increase labour market inactivity? An analysis of 346 British local authorities between 2009 and 2014
Consequences of activation policy targeting young adults with health-related problems in Sweden and Denmark
Assessment of work ability in competing strands of social insurance: the German case
Welfare conditionality and disabled people in the UK: claimants' perspectives
The bedroom tax in the Supreme Court: implications of the judgment
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