Local Management for More Effective Employment Policies

Local Management for More Effective Employment Policies
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1998-04-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9264162720

This publication looks at the decentralisation of active labour market policies in OECD countries and shows how local employment management can lead to the implementation of more effective policies.

The Theory and Practice of Local Governance and Economic Development

The Theory and Practice of Local Governance and Economic Development
Author: M. Considine
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2008-02-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230582680

This book provides a comparative study of the use of partnerships and new forms of governance to achieve policy goals that promote economic and social development. In addition to a consideration of the theoretical challenges posed by these institutional developments, the book reviews recent experiences in Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America.

Job Training Policy in the United States

Job Training Policy in the United States
Author: Christopher J. O'Leary
Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2004
Genre: Occupational training
ISBN: 0880993073

Reviews federally funded training programmes, notably its service providers and the way they operate. Considers issues of performance management under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998. Compares public to private training programmes in the US and to the public training in other industrialized nations.

Federalism in Action

Federalism in Action
Author: Donna E. Wood
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2018-04-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1487517084

Every developed country has a public employment service that connects job seekers with employers through information, placement, and training support services. In Federalism in Action, Donna E. Wood assesses how Canada’s public employment service is performing after responsibility was transferred from the federal government to provinces, territories, and Aboriginal organizations between 1995 and 2015. Drawing upon over twenty years of data, Wood reveals the governance choices provinces made, the reasons behind these choices, and the outcomes they achieved. Provincial decisions regarding employment programming is an important public policy issue about which little is known, and even less understood within the context of Aboriginal communities. Federalism in Action includes analytical comparisons of Canada’s employment programming with the United States, Australia, and the European Union, as well as information from insightful interviews with key informants from every province. In firmly placing Canada within the extensive international literature on the governance of welfare-to-work policies, this book makes an important new contribution to research.