Gibilisco, Saro Budowski, Monica Hadjar, Andreas 2025 Existing research predominantly examines precarisation processes within the framework of the welfare state crisis. This study diverges from this conventional practice as it explores precarisation in terms of a product of welfare state intervention. Specifically, the main argument is that welfare state interventions towards individual responsibility and activation centre on precarisation as a governance principle. Through a temporal examination of the perceived risk of unemployment – a key aspect of precarisation in the labour market – utilising data from the Swiss Household Panel spanning 1999 to 2019, the study reveals a growing prevalence of the perceived risk of unemployment within the group of individuals in more privileged employment arrangements, notably stable and full-time contracts. Results suggest that precarisation is diffusing into segments of society considered secure and protected by the welfare state. This seems to be closely linked to the new activation mode of welfare state intervention. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/334102 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/334102/files/gibilisco-et-al-2025-the-activating-welfare-state-and-precarisation-a-temporal-analysis-of-the-perceived-unemployment.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1177/09500170251361817 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/0950-0170 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC BY Work, Employment and Society. - SAGE Publications. - 2025, vol. 39, no. 6, p. 1513-1536 activation individual responsibility labour market precarisation risk social insurance unemployment welfare state intervention info:eu-repo/classification/udc/root_3 The Activating Welfare State and Precarisation : a Temporal Analysis of the Perceived Unemployment Risk in Switzerland, 1999–2019 http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501