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Minna van Gerven

@minnavangerven.bsky.social

Professor of Social Policy @HelsinkiUni 🇫🇮🇳🇱

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- From crisis corporatism to reshaping European labour markets in defence of vulnerable workers

@minnavangerven.bsky.social, Marta Kahancová, Anil Duman, and @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social

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- Social dialogue in defence of vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic: comparative analysis of Italy and Spain

@francescoseghezzi.bsky.social , Stefania Negri, Valeria Virgili, and Lavinia Serrani

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- Social dialogue in the shadow of ad hoc government advisory bodies: the case of Central and Eastern Europe

Monika Martišková, Inga Blažienė, Julija Moskvina, and Simona Brunnerová

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- Institutionalised power or crisis corporatism? Comparing Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic

@jstrigen.bsky.social @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social @minnavangerven.bsky.social Zamzam Elmi, and Aino Salmi

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- Crisis corporatism under strain: institutional power and the protection of vulnerable groups in Türkiye and Serbia

Anil Duman, Mihail Arandarenko, and Dragan Aleksić

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- Tripartite alliances for vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from the Eurofound PolicyWatch database

Garima Singh, @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social and @minnavangerven.bsky.social

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The papers:

- Can crisis corporatism protect vulnerable workers? Conceptual insights from a European perspective

Chaitawat Boonjubun, Anil Duman, and Marta Kahancová

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Transfer SI is out!. Together the papers critically analyse Crisis corporatism and institutionalised power relations and aims to shed understanding of the COVID-19 measures and how they reshaped (or not) European labour markets to defend vulnerable workers. journals.sagepub.com/toc/TRS/curr...

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- Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska: How Context Matters: Human Oversight of Automated Decision-Making Systems in Welfare Administration journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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- Minna van Gerven Minna Ruckenstein The unhappy marriage of standardization and activation policy: Welfare bureaucracy and service professionalism in delivering digital social assistance in Finland journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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- Kristian Bloch Haug, Magnus Paulsen Hansen, The politics of algorithmic profiling of unemployed: A framework for analysing legitimation, contestation, and compromises journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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The individual articles listed- Kettil Nordesjö, Gabriella Scaramuzzino The distant, the capable and trustworthy, and the digitally skilled—the production of client roles in municipal activation and social assistance services using automated decision-making

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We suggests that, based on insights from Fi/DK/PL/SE "uncertainties, ambivalences and trade-offs of the datafied welfare state are emerging.
The punch line: what digitalisation does to welfare clients at the micro level has repercussions for the legitimacy of the welfare state at the macro level.

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Our editorial piece of the JESP symposium: "From efficiency to ambivalence: How digitalisation reshapes labour market activation and the moral economy of welfare state" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
W @Didier Demaziere, Magnus Paulsen Hansen Stefano Sacchi

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Tripartite alliances for vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from the Eurofound PolicyWatch database

New paper by @garimasingh-gs.bsky.social, @minnavangerven.bsky.social and myself, in Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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04.11.2025 08:48 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Päivillä kokoontuu myös iso joukko työryhmiä keskustelemaan miten luottamusta voidaan tutkia, ymmärtää ja vahvistaa – sekä tutkimuksen että käytännön näkökulmista. Ole mukana!

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Perjantain paneelissa keskustellaan luottamuksesta epävarmuuksien keskellä – millaisia rooleja järjestöillä ja hyvinvointialueilla/kaupungeilla on kansalaisten luottamuksen rakentamisessa. Mukana Tarja Nyman (Humak), Juha Pantzar (Takuusäätiö), Anne Perälahti (Soste) ja Mikko Vatka (Helsinki)

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Pääpuhujina Jon Kvist aiheesta pohjoismaisen hyvinvointivaltion paradoksit ja Femke Roosma kuinka luottamus, solidaarisuus ja käsitykset ansaitsevuudesta rakentavat hyvinvointivaltion oikeutusta. Olli Kangas ja Heikki Ervasti kommentoivat näitä esityksiä, eli kipinöitä tiedossa!

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Sosiaalipolitiikan päivät 2025 | Helsingin yliopisto 23.-24.10.2025, Helsingin yliopisto

Sosiaalipolitiikan päivät järjestetään tänä vuonna Helsingissa (23-24.10) ja ilmoittautuminen on nyt auki!
👉 Ohjelma ja ilmoittautuminen (8.10 mennessä) www.helsinki.fi/fi/konferens... Sosiaalipolitiikan päivät 2025 | Social Policy Days 2025 hashtag#sosiaalipolitiikanpäivät2025

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Institutionalised power or crisis corporatism? Comparing Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic

New paper by @jstrigen.bsky.social, @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social, @minnavangerven.bsky.social Zamzam Elmi and Aino Salmi.

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“They’re Not Thinking on the Same Side We Are”: Street-Level Activation of Parents under Universal Credit | Social Policy and Society | Cambridge Core “They’re Not Thinking on the Same Side We Are”: Street-Level Activation of Parents under Universal Credit

Using my first Bluesky post to share that Marsha Wood & I have a new article out! 🎉

We take a gendered street-level look at how Universal Credit policies shape parents’ everyday realities of navigating work, care & welfare.

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The call for paper proposals for the Social Policy Days (October 23–24, 2025) is now open. Information about the workshops on our website: www.helsinki.fi/.../social-p.... Proposals submitted to the workshop organizers (not conference organisers) by September 1. Registration will open in August.

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TYÖRYHMIEN ESITELMÄHAKU Sosiaalipolitiikan päiville (23.–24.10.2025) on nyt avoinna! Työryhmien kuvaukset ja lisätiedot löytyvät www.helsinki.fi/.../sosiaali... .
Esityshdotukset tulee lähettää työryhmien vetäjille (ei päivien järjestäjille) 1.9. mennessä. Tapahtuman ilmoittautuminen elokuussa.

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Työryhmäkutsun DL lähenee (26.5.) Vielä mahtuu mukaan keskustelemaan sosiaalipolitiikan polttavista kysymyksistä! Kutsua saa myös levittää; Sharing is caring!

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⏳ Registration is open until Wednesday, 21st!

Join us this Friday, 23rd May at Kela or online from 9:00 to 12:30 to hear valuable insights:
🔹 What can we learn from the UK’s Universal Credit system?
🔹 How can digitalisation simplify complex issues while ensuring inclusivity?

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viimeinen hetki ilmoittautua Universal Credit tapahtumaamme kelaan tai verkossa ensi perjantaina. arvokasta oppia miten välttää karikot meidän sosiaaliturvan uudistamisessa! Be there!

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TIME 23.5.2025 9:30-12:30 EEST time
LOCATION: Kela, Helsinki/online

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See the final programme for the REPAIR + KELA seminar!
🔹 What can we learn from the UK’s Universal Credit system?
🔹 How can digitalisation simplify complex issues while ensuring inclusivity?
Register here by 16 May: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS....

13.05.2025 13:47 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 2
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Social Policy Days, Working Groups

Sosiaalipolitiikan päivillä 23.–24.10.2025 Helsingissä keskustellaan luottamuksesta .Lähetä työryhmäehdotuksesi 26.5.2025 mennessä:
www.lyyti.fi/reg/Sosiaali...

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Britanniassa Universal Credit järjestelmällä haluttiin yksinkertaistaa sosiaaliturvaa, samoja tavoitteita kuin Yleistuessa. Yhdessä @repairresearch.bsky.social ja Kelan kanssa järjestämme tilaisuuden 23.5.2025 jossa haetaan oppeja sosiaaliturvan digitalisaatiosta tietotarjotin.fi/tapahtuma/12...

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