Publikasjoner / Papers / 2010 / 2010:021 Disabled and detached? Political participation and social integration among welfare recipients
Disabled and detached? Political participation and social integration among welfare recipients
In this paper, we use survey data to study social and political integration among disability pensioners. The aim is to find out whether being dependent upon social transfers leads to low participation and social integration. Our analyses reveal that disability-benefit recipients are less socially integrated than members of the working population as far as they participate less in voluntary organizations (both as members and volunteers) and as far as they display lower levels of social and vertical trust. On the other hand, there is no difference between disability pensioners and employed when it comes to breath of social networks.