Discourses of Deservingness in the COVID-19 Income Relief Payment

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aut.relation.endpage19
aut.relation.issue2
aut.relation.journalNew Zealand Journal of Employment Relations
aut.relation.pages19
aut.relation.startpage1
aut.relation.volume47
dc.contributor.authorSkilling, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-22T04:39:05Z
dc.date.available2024-08-22T04:39:05Z
dc.date.issued2022-06-01
dc.description.abstractThis article presents an analysis of the Covid-19 Income Relief Payment (CIRP) scheme that was instituted for a limited time in 2020 to support those who had lost their income as a result of the pandemic. More specifically, it analyses the ways in which CIRP recipients were discursively constructed as deserving of a higher level of support (albeit for a limited time) than that available for other unemployed people and other welfare recipients. To this end, this article conducts a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of relevant policy documents, parliamentary debates and media coverage to assess how key actors constructed the deservingness of CIRP recipients, as well as how these constructions were contested by other groups. While the CIRP was positioned as a short-lived response to an exceptional event, the design and the discourses of this scheme reveal how policymakers understand the deservingness of different groups of New Zealanders. It is important to understand these discourses of deservingness, especially as the architects of the CIRP scheme linked it to the development of a permanent scheme for supporting displaced workers.
dc.identifier.citationNew Zealand Journal of Employment Relations, ISSN: 0110-0637 (Print); 0110-0637 (Online), 47(2), 1-19.
dc.identifier.issn0110-0637
dc.identifier.issn0110-0637
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/17918
dc.publisherER Publishing Ltd, Auckland
dc.relation.urihttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/nzjer/forthcoming/article/101/57
dc.rightsThe NZJER is a fully open access, peer-reviewed journal which publishes research and commentaries that aim to contribute to an in-depth understanding of employment relations.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.subject1503 Business and Management
dc.subject1608 Sociology
dc.subject2202 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
dc.subject3505 Human resources and industrial relations
dc.subject3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
dc.titleDiscourses of Deservingness in the COVID-19 Income Relief Payment
dc.typeJournal Article
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