BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:talks.ox.ac.uk BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The origins of social security in India - Dr Louise Tillin (King ’s College London) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190207T161500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190207T174500Z UID:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/ee9ab468-e25c-4381-8b1c-2322c9b761 b9/ DESCRIPTION:This talk will present material from the early chapters of a b ook project on welfare and capitalist development in India. These chapters look at the origins of India’s social security regime for industrial wo rkers. India adopted employer/employee financed health insurance for indus trial workers in 1948. This may be considered surprising when compared bot h to other British colonies\, and to contemporaneous developments in other large\, decentralised polities such as the United States where regional i nterests undermined the passage of federation-wide social security legisla tion. In the talk\, I will look at how a decentralised approach to social security within constitutional structures of limited self-government in th e late colonial period gave way to support – including from many employe rs - for a centralised health insurance scheme in India which was develope d during the Second World War and enacted in 1948. International factors (including membership of the International Labour Organisation and publica tion of the Beveridge Report) helped to push sickness insurance onto the a genda. But to understand why this emerged as one of the first legislative acts of the post-Independence Indian government\, we also need to look at the interests of local capital and political actors in stabilising the wor kforce and regulating internal competition in the context of the crafting of a national Indian market. The talk will conclude by considering some of the implications of these historical developments for understanding conte mporary India’s welfare regime.\nSpeakers:\nDr Louise Tillin (King’s C ollege London) LOCATION:32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House) (Violet Butler Room)\, 32 -42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER TZID:Europe/London URL:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/ee9ab468-e25c-4381-8b1c-2322c9b761 b9/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:The origins of social security in India - Dr Louise Tilli n (King’s College London) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Activating the youth in post-industrial Japan and Korea - Dr Sophi a Seung-yoon Lee (Ewha Womans University\, Seoul) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190228T161500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190228T174500Z UID:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b4e9d1dc-5fd1-43cd-bd39-0d1a2267ab 74/ DESCRIPTION:South Korea and Japan had shown a substantially lower unemploy ment rates than the international average for decades even after the peak of industrialization in the 1980s. The two countries have been often categ orized together to experience similar changes in the labour market and for their similarity in productivist welfare state\, East Asian welfare state and production welfare regime. However\, there are also notable cross-cou ntry differences in the unemployment trends\, especially when paying atten tion to the current youth labour market. Youth unemployment started to dec rease in Japan from 2000s\, unemployment rate in Korea is steadily increas ing peaking the highest in their history. Furthermore\, we see a sharp div erge in the overall ALMPs spending in the two countries\; total ALMPs expe nditure starts rapidly decrease in Japan while it is exactly the opposite in Korea. Highlighting on the difference in the two countries in both thei r performance of youth labour market and ALMP spending and programmes in r ecent years\, this study attempts to answer the following two puzzles\; 1) Why Korean and Japanese youth labour market perform differently\, 2) how do Korea and Japan differ in their Youth labour market activation policy? and 3) why do these two countries that were commonly put together as simil ar type of welfare production regime start to diverge around their youth s kill formation policy? We will closely examine the changes in youth labour market in South Korea and Japan\, and examine how the two countries start s to diverge in their skill formation policy by taking a closer look at th e policy changes around youth activation policy. We will than explain the evolution of skill formation in the two East Asian countries to later disc uss on how institutional configuration in these two East Asian capitalisms presents a divergence in recent post-industrial periods.\nSpeakers:\nDr S ophia Seung-yoon Lee (Ewha Womans University\, Seoul) LOCATION:32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House) (Violet Butler Room)\, 32 -42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER TZID:Europe/London URL:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b4e9d1dc-5fd1-43cd-bd39-0d1a2267ab 74/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Activating the youth in post-industrial Japan and Korea - Dr Sophia Seung-yoon Lee (Ewha Womans University\, Seoul) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Management and bureaucratic effectiveness: Evidence from the Ghana ian civil service - Dr Martin Williams (University of Oxford) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190221T161500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190221T174500Z UID:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/4a77b91d-5f8b-4ecf-a7eb-8c573be034 a2/ DESCRIPTION:A burgeoning area of social science research examines how stat e capabilities and bureaucratic effectiveness shape economic development. We study how the management practices civil service bureaucrats operate un der correlate to the delivery of public projects\, using novel data from t he Ghanaian Civil Service. To do so\, we combine hand-coded progress repor ts on 3600 projects with a management survey in government Ministries and Departments responsible for these projects\, following the methodology of Bloom et al [2012] Management matters: practices related to autonomy are p ositively associated with project completion\, yet practices related to in centives/monitoring of bureaucrats are negatively associated with project completion. The negative impact of incentives/monitoring practices is part ly explained by bureaucrats having to multi-task\, interactions with their intrinsic motivation\, their engagement in influence activities\, and pro ject characteristics such as the clarity of targets and deliverable output s. Finally\, we discuss the interplay between management practices and cor ruption\, alternative methods by which to measure management practices in organizations\, and the external validity of our results by comparing key findings to those in Rasul and Rogger [2018]. Our findings suggest the foc us of many civil service reform programs on introducing stronger incentive s and monitoring may backfire in some organizations\, and that even countr ies with low levels of state capability may benefit by providing public se rvants with greater autonomy in some spheres.\nSpeakers:\nDr Martin Willia ms (University of Oxford) LOCATION:32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House) (Violet Butler Room)\, 32 -42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER TZID:Europe/London URL:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/4a77b91d-5f8b-4ecf-a7eb-8c573be034 a2/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Management and bureaucratic effectiveness: Evidence from the Ghanaian civil service - Dr Martin Williams (University of Oxford) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Critical policy analysis and social protection in the Global South : A view from the MENA region - Dr Rana Jawad (University of Bath) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190124T161500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190124T174500Z UID:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/85e9dc0a-5690-44c7-beac-fcfa38e79b 09/ DESCRIPTION:This paper combines theoretical insights from social policy an d critical discourse analysis to carry out a “deep evaluation” (Bacchi \, 2014) of the conceptualisation of social protection (SP) as a policy to ol in developing countries. The aim is to highlight the importance of poli cy framing in shaping policy options and social welfare outcomes. This is important because of the endurance of SP as a global orientation in intern ational development interventions at a time when its operationalisation in policy terms appears to be narrower than its professed goals. In developi ng its analysis\, the paper takes stock of the historical paradigms and ma jor trends in the social policies of the MENA region\, focusing in particu lar on the significance of social assistance and non-contributory programm es\, such as cash transfers to query whether the social protection paradig m has facilitated more inclusive or egalitarian social policy discourses i n MENA countries. The paper categorises SP according to three orders of di scourse: social risk management\, social justice/social contracts\, (“ex ante”) institutionalisation of social protection (specifically social a ssistance)\, in order to address areas of “discourse closure” (Veit-Wi lson\, 2000) in the conceptualisation of SP. On the basis of this categori sation\, the paper proposes a framework for analysing SP that highlights t he importance of three elements to aid better policy operationalisation of SP programmes: (1) state-civil society relations in the provision of serv ices\; (2) the ethical and not only legal parameters of SP\; (3) the enhan cement of social cohesion as a final SP goal. Together\, these three eleme nts support a process-oriented analysis of SP encompassing policy actors\, principles and goals which supports the emphasis on critical policy analy sis in this paper.\nSpeakers:\nDr Rana Jawad (University of Bath) LOCATION:32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House) (Violet Butler Room)\, 32 -42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER TZID:Europe/London URL:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/85e9dc0a-5690-44c7-beac-fcfa38e79b 09/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Critical policy analysis and social protection in the Glo bal South: A view from the MENA region - Dr Rana Jawad (University of Bath ) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Opting out of the social contract: Tax morale and evasion in Latin America - Dr David Doyle (University of Oxford) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190214T161500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190214T174500Z UID:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/4832992d-20d1-49db-986c-631aadf1af 95/ DESCRIPTION:This paper discusses the relationship between individual attit udes towards the social contract and tax morale in low-capacity states. Us ing data from an original survey experiment fielded in Mexico\, we argue t hat\, in contexts of weak state capacity and low norms of tax compliance\, many individuals opt-out of the social contract. That is\, they prefer to substitute state-provided goods for private providers\, rather than pay f or public goods through taxes or free-ride to receive those goods. Using a list experiment to elicit willingness to pay or evade taxes\, (a techniqu e that has not yet been applied to the study of tax morale)\, we demonstra te that tax morale is lower when individuals have stepped outside of the w elfare state and have access to private insurance mechanisms. We bolster o ur experimental results with observational data from seventeen Latin Ameri can cities\; those with access to employer-sponsored insurance are more wi lling to evade tax.\n\nSpeakers:\nDr David Doyle (University of Oxford) LOCATION:32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House) (Violet Butler Room)\, 32 -42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER TZID:Europe/London URL:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/4832992d-20d1-49db-986c-631aadf1af 95/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Opting out of the social contract: Tax morale and evasion in Latin America - Dr David Doyle (University of Oxford) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Colonialism and social policy in the Global South - CHANGE OF SPEA KER - Amanda Shriwise (University of Oxford/ University of Bremen) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190117T161500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190117T174500Z UID:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/88b83dae-6f85-4228-9a7b-f2a4fb950b aa/ DESCRIPTION:Classical accounts emphasize domestic structures and actors wh en explaining the emergence of social policy in today’s advanced economi es. External actors play a less central role. As a consequence\, classical accounts are limited in their ability to explain social policy developmen t in cases where external actors have been pivotal from the very outset. C onsidering that most of today’s nation states\, especially in the Global South\, have been subordinated to others at some point\, this is not a mi nor limitation. I will address colonialism as a particular kind of transna tional governance in order to better understand social policy-making in co untries beyond the OECD. Using French and British former colonies as an ex ample\, I propose an actor-centric approach to social policy development i n the presence of powerful external actors. This approach can be amended t o suit different research questions and it allows to capture the actor dyn amics before and after independence.\nSpeakers:\nAmanda Shriwise (Universi ty of Oxford/ University of Bremen) LOCATION:32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House) (Violet Butler Room)\, 32 -42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER TZID:Europe/London URL:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/88b83dae-6f85-4228-9a7b-f2a4fb950b aa/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Colonialism and social policy in the Global South - CHANG E OF SPEAKER - Amanda Shriwise (University of Oxford/ University of Bremen ) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Where next for research on social policy in the Global South? - Dr Rebecca Surender (University of Oxford)\, Dr Armando Barrientos (Universi ty of Manchester)\, Dr Alexandra Kaasch (University of Bremen) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190307T161500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190307T174500Z UID:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/9e4c7f29-7afe-4296-a60c-1c72ef0b73 e5/ DESCRIPTION:\nSpeakers:\nDr Rebecca Surender (University of Oxford)\, Dr A rmando Barrientos (University of Manchester)\, Dr Alexandra Kaasch (Univer sity of Bremen) LOCATION:32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House) (Violet Butler Room)\, 32 -42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER TZID:Europe/London URL:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/9e4c7f29-7afe-4296-a60c-1c72ef0b73 e5/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Where next for research on social policy in the Global So uth? - Dr Rebecca Surender (University of Oxford)\, Dr Armando Barrientos (University of Manchester)\, Dr Alexandra Kaasch (University of Bremen) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR