01406nam a22001217a 4500008004100000100002700041245013400068260003200202300003200234520091900266650006801185773003101253211217b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aHedegaard, Troels Fage  aUnited we stand: A household perspective on the impact of public employment on attitudes towards retrenchment of welfare spending  aSocial Policy and Society    a20(3), Jul, 2021: p.357-370  aThis article explores the impact of public sector employment on attitudes to retrenchment of social spending from a household perspective. The idea the employees of the public sector will stand together to preserve public spending exists throughout the literature on support for and persistence of the welfare states. The empirical evidence for this link, however, has been poor. In this article, I show that this link can be established when studying it from a household perspective. Using a nationally representative survey from Denmark I show that people living in a household where one or both are employed in the public sector are more willing to spend more on the public sector. This effect is, however, only for some policies – unemployment benefit, social assistance, education grant, and integration services – which were generally the least popular policies in the eyes of the public. – Reproduced   aPublic employment, Welfare attitudes, Household,  Retrenchment   aSocial Policy and Society