Author : Werner Eichhorst
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : 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.
Author : Florence Lefresne
Publisher :
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Unemployment insurance
ISBN : 9782874521614
Author : Henning Jørgensen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 2024-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1035325616
This insightful book presents a detailed analysis of the activation policies utilized by governments across Europe and the US. Editors Henning J¿rgensen and Michaela Schulze bring together a wealth of experts to collate key developments and understandings in global activation policies, acknowledging the different ways in which countries and governments attempt to combat unemployment and the importance of subnational governance capabilities.
Author : S. Betzelt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : 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.
Author : Mr.Marcello M. Estevão
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1451875649
Using panel data for 15 industrial countries, active labor market policies (ALMPs) are shown to have raised employment rates in the business sector in the 1990s, after controlling for many institutions, country-specific effects, and economic variables. Among such policies, direct subsidies to job creation were the most effective. ALMPs also affected employment rates by reducing real wages below levels allowed by technological growth, changes in the unemployment rate, and institutional and other economic factors. However, part of this wage moderation may be linked to a composition effect because policies were targeted to low-paid individuals. Whether ALMPs are cost-effective from a budgetary perspective remains to be determined, but they are certainly not substitutes for comprehensive institutional reforms.
Author : van Berkel, Rik
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781861347978
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.
Author : J. Timo Weishaupt
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9089642528
This illuminating book examines the origins and evolution of labor market policy in Western Europe in three phases: a manpower revolution during the 1960s and 1970s; a phase of international disagreement about the causes of and remedies for unemployment, which triggered a variety of policy responses in the late 1970s and 1980s; and, finally, the emergence of an activation paradigm in the late 1990s, the influence of which continues to reverberate today. J. Timo Weishaupt contends that the evolution of labor market policy is determined not only by historical trajectories or coalitional struggles, but also by policy makers' changing normative and cognitive beliefs. Including case studies of Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, this study will be of value to anyone interested in labor market policy and its governance.
Author : Tijs Laenen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1788976304
Has there been change or continuity in the welfare attitudes of Europeans since the 2008 financial crisis? Using data from the European Social Survey, this book reveals how various types of welfare attitudes evolved between 2008, when the crisis triggered economic recessions and welfare reforms across Europe, and 2016, when most countries had largely recovered from that crisis.
Author : International Labour Organisation
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789221148395
This book investigates the paradox of rich countries of Western Europe, who have high levels of poverty whilst proclaiming its eradication as one of the primary social and economic goals. It looks at how policies often do not achieve their goals, why countries need mechanisms to reduce wage inequality and why they choose to provide universal benefits instead of systems of selective benefits targeted at the poor. Along with cross-countries comparisons, the volume also presents analysis of the minimum income in France, Portugal, Italy, Finland, Ireland, Belgium, and Greece.
Author : L. Antonucci
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 19,1 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137370521
This edited collection provides the first in-depth analysis of social policies and the risks faced by young people. The book explores the effects of both the economic crisis and austerity policies on the lives of young Europeans, examining both the precarity of youth transitions, and the function of welfare state policies.
