Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies

Measures, Public Private Partnerships and Benchmarking

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

This book argues that active labour market policies are necessary to improve the position of the unemployed but have so far performed relatively poorly. The contributing authors seek ways to improve active labour market policy and consider three means of doing so: improving the quality by better targeting and by better-designed measures, more efficient implementation and delivery, and better performance by benchmarking the various implementation agencies involved.The book also contains detailed descriptions of the new delivery systems in Australia and the Netherlands. These are countries that have privatized a considerable part of the implementation of reintegration services for the unemployed and therefore can provide valuable lessons.The Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies will appeal to a wide audience including researchers and scholars of labour economics, sociology and political science. Policymakers within ministries and other public organizations and NGO's dealing with labour market issues and partners, will also find much to engage them within the book.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-02-23
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781845428464

Utforska kategorier

Mikroekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

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Edited by Jaap de Koning, Professor of Labour Market Policy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Director, SEOR, The Netherlands

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:Preface1. Introduction Jaap de KoningPART I: NEW MEASURES2. Is the Changing Pattern in the Use of Active Labour Market Policies Consistent with what Evaluations Tell Us About their Relative Performance?Jaap de Koning3. Labour Market Activation Policies: A Comparison of the Use of Tax Credits in Belgium, the UK and the USGerlinde Verbist, Lieve De Lathouwer and Annelies Roggeman4. Using the Unemployed as Employment Counsellors: Evaluation of an Initiative to Combat Long-term UnemploymentLennart Delander, Jonas Månsson and Erik Nyberg5. Recent Developments in Active Labour Market Policies in the UK: The Shifting Focus from Unemployment to InactivityNigel Meager6. Active Labour Market Policies and Social Inclusion: The Case of Flemish Social EnterprisesIdesbald NicaisePART II: PRIVATE–PUBLIC COOPERATION7. Contracting-out the Public Employment Service: A New Institutional Economics PerspectiveOliver Bruttel8. Between Efficiency and Equality: New Public–Private Arrangements in Employment Assistance for the UnemploymentLudo Struyven9. The Reform of the Dutch Public Employment ServiceJaap de Koning10. Private versus Public Provision of Placement Services for Hard-to-Place Unemployed: An Impact EvaluationLennart Delander, Jonas Månsson and Erik NybergPART III: BENCHMARKING11. Benchmarking Employment Services in GermanyHugh Mosley and Kai-Uwe Müller12. Mediation Services and the Outflow from Short-term Unemployment: Average and Relative Effectiveness of Public Employment OfficesLinda van Donk and Jaap de Koning13. Implementation of Performance Measurement in Public Employment Services in SwitzerlandChristoph Hilbert14. Does Quality Matter? Analysing the Effect of Omitted Variables on Optimal Scale: An Application to Swedish Employment OfficesJonas MånssonIndex