During the 1990s and the early 2000s, reforms were sweeping across the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, aiming to bring about a transformation from passive to active employment and social policies. In more recent years, reforms have focused on the governance and implementation of labour market policies. Hence, many countries have witnessed major restructuring processes of the institutional arenas for the administration of income protection schemes and the delivery of employment ...
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During the 1990s and the early 2000s, reforms were sweeping across the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, aiming to bring about a transformation from passive to active employment and social policies. In more recent years, reforms have focused on the governance and implementation of labour market policies. Hence, many countries have witnessed major restructuring processes of the institutional arenas for the administration of income protection schemes and the delivery of employment services. This book identifies how labour market policies are governed, and what new forms of governance have been introduced in various countries. The book address the questions: Why do changes in governance structures apparently dominate the employment and social policy area at present? Are the reforms only "technical" and "a-political" (to pursue effectiveness, efficiency, responsiveness, and the like) as claimed by the decision makers? What are the implications
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Minor rubbing. VG. 24x15cm, 203 pp. Contents: Decentralisation & local flexibility in employment services; Redesigning the governance of employment politics-Decentralised centralisation in municipal jobcentres; Alternative styles & roles for local governments in implementing activation policies in Germany; Marketization of placement services as a double recommodification of labour; Bureaucracies under pressure? How Dutch local welfare agencies cope with policy and governance reforms; The politics & governance of Workfare in the U.S.; From right to obligation: The impact of collective and public regulation on the outplacement for redundant workers in Flanders; Working-life development based employment services: Is Finland heading for an alternative model?