Destruktivt entreprenörskap
Fusket/missbruket med assistansersättningen
DisabledLSS- lawAssistance providersAssistantsUsersFunktionshindradeLSS-lagenAssistansanordnareAssistenterBrukare
Purpose: The aim is to investigate the mechanisms behind the destructive entrepreneurship in the assistance industry.Method: To investigate the destructive entrepreneurship in the assistance industry, we conducted a qualitative study in the form of semi-structured questions. In total, we interviewed four authorities and an employer organization.Theory: Theoretical framework: The study is based on Baumol's (1990) theory of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship and rent-seeking by Murphy et al (1991), but the study's principal theory that we have chosen to apply is the routine activity theory of Cohen & Felson (1979) that describes three elements that must come together in order for a crime to be committed.Conclusions and discussion: Our study shows that it is clear that there is both fraud and abuse within the assistance allowance, which can be done in different ways. Some users simulate their illness that they exaggerate their need for assistance. Some assistance providers have abused the compensation by paying lower wages and empty false wages etc. The study showed that there also exists a type of human trafficking. The fraud/abuse includes millions of kroner and it requires several people to accomplish the embezzlement. The most common form in which cheating occurs is limited but it is suspected that the abuse occurs in all forms of assistance other than the cooperative assistance form. The assistance industry is not in a position of being undermined; however, compensation levels may be slightly compressed.