Activation and Labour Market Reforms in Europe
Title | Activation and Labour Market Reforms in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | S. Betzelt |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2011-06-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230307639 |
This book analyzes in what way activation policies impact on given patterns of social citizenship that predominate in national contexts. It argues that the liberal paradigm of activation introduced into labour market policies in all Western European states challenges the specific patterns of social citizenship in each country.
Reshaping Welfare States and Activation Regimes in Europe
Title | Reshaping Welfare States and Activation Regimes in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | SALTSA (Program) |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9789052010489 |
The activation-based intervention paradigm is being adopted by several European countries resulting in major reforms to the social welfare system. The spread of the activation paradigm has had major repercussions, not only for welfare interventions aimed at combating unemployment, but also for the political regulation of the social question and citizenship. Citizenship is being redefined in contractual terms and greater emphasis is being placed on its economic aspects. Nevertheless, a wide range of policies are labelled with recourse to this interpretative framework and a pluralistic approach to implementation could serve just as well to empower as to weaken workers'/citizens' position in society. This book analyses the extent of these changes from a cross-cultural perspective. Institutional settings as well as prevailing work values and social representation of social exclusion (activation regimes) have a key role in defining the instruments to be used in national activation strategies to regulate the behaviour of job seekers. In this book, a discussion about the range of social welfare model reforms throughout Europe and a typology of activation regimes is proposed.
Making it Personal
Title | Making it Personal PDF eBook |
Author | van Berkel, Rik |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2007-02-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1861347979 |
This book addresses the development of increasingly individualised public social services in the EU. It focuses particularly on activation services that have become crucial in the 'modernisation' of welfare states, comparing their introduction in the UK, Germany, Italy, Finland and the Czech Republic.
Bringing the Jobless into Work?
Title | Bringing the Jobless into Work? PDF eBook |
Author | Werner Eichhorst |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 481 |
Release | 2008-09-09 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 3540774351 |
This volume provides an up-to-date overview of activation strategies in unemployment benefit systems and social assistance in selected European countries and the United States. A particular focus lies on the development of activation schemes, governance and implementation as well as on the outcomes of activation in terms of labor market and social integration. The volume is the first to address these issues both from a socio-economic and a legal perspective.
Activation Or Workfare?
Title | Activation Or Workfare? PDF eBook |
Author | Ivar Lødemel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0199773580 |
The last decade of the 20th century was marked by a shift in how welfare-states deal with those at the bottom of the income ladder. This shift involved the introduction/strengthening of work-obligations as a condition for receiving minimum income benefits - which, in some countries, was complemented by efforts to help recipients return to the labour market, namely through the investment in active labour market policies (ALMP). Based on case-studies of developments in the US and eight European nations (UK, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, France, Portugal and the Czech Republic), this book argues that this first set of reforms was followed by a second wave of reforms that, whilst deepening the path towards the focus on work, brings important innovations- be it the tools used to help recipients back to the labour markets (ex., financial incentives) and in how activation policies are delivered (ex., integration of benefit and employment services). Looking at the array of developments introduced during this period, we discern two key trends. The first concerns the strengthening of the role of the market in the governance of activation, which is visible in the strengthening of the focus on work, or the marketisation of employment services. The second, concerns a move towards the individualisation of service delivery, visible in the expansion of the use of personal action plans or in efforts to streamline service delivery. Finally, we show that the onset of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, has triggered a new wave of reforms. Whilst tentative only, our analysis points to a worrying trend of the curtailment or benefits (Portugal) and activation services (Netherlands, Czech Republic) to minimum income recipients and, in parallel, a further deepening of the focus on work-conditionality (UK and Norway).
Implementing Activation Policies
Title | Implementing Activation Policies PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastian Künzel |
Publisher | Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9783653042245 |
This book analyses how activation reforms change the multilevel governance of social and labour market policy in Continental Europe. Implementation studies in France and Germany show the crucial role of the local level. Diverse local models of the organisation of active labour market policy, placement, social services and benefits emerge.
Active Labour Market Policies and Welfare Reform
Title | Active Labour Market Policies and Welfare Reform PDF eBook |
Author | A. Daguerre |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2007-07-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230582230 |
Examining recent policy responses to social exclusion in the US, France, Denmark, the UK, and at the EU level since 1997, Daguerre argues that the development of active labour market policies is not the answer and that the reforms are indicative of a shift towards conditional welfare. The book is based on in-depth interviews with key policy makers.