Integrated Approaches To Active Welfare And Employment Policies
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Author | : John Ditch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : European Union countries |
ISBN | : |
Over the past decade, European social policy has been oriented towards ways of integrating people into the labour market, moving citizens from welfare dependency to work. Recipients of social benefits are now generally required to participate in employment activation shemes. Many are also likely to need support from health, education, housing or other services. It is widely acknowledged that there is a great need for better coordination of welfare and employment policies at all levels: local, regional and national. This report presents an analysis of initiatives in all 15 EU Member States that aim to achieve better coordination of employment activation measures. It describes the role of the different agencies and actors involved in the planning, implementation and delivery of services. It shows the approach taken in some countries and localities towards better coordination through a range of new institutions and mechanisms. The report identifies measures in both policy and practice for improving coordination, including strategic as well as operational measures, and underlines the effectiveness of a comprehensive evaluation strategy.
Author | : European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789289701686 |
In 2001, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions carried out a survey on working conditions in 12 candidate countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia (extended to Turkey in 2002). This questionnaire-based survey is identical to the three working conditions surveys carried out in the EU Member States in 1990, 1995 and 2000, allowing for comparisons to be drawn between these two groups of countries. The survey addresses a wide range of issues related to the quality of work and employment, such as: physical risk factors (noise, vibrations, etc.); working time patterns (working hours, working time arrangements, etc.); work organisation features (job content, pace of work, autonomy, etc.); social relations (consultation, support, etc.); and work-related health outcomes (stress, muscular pain, etc.). This leaflet presents the main findings of the 12 candidate countries{u2019} survey.
Author | : Martin Heidenreich |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2016-01-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1783474920 |
A central goal of European activation policies is to provide coherent and actively inclusive employment and social services. This book offers new insights on the effective governance and implementation of such policies. Utilizing empirical studies from six European welfare states, expert contributors explore how different institutional contexts influence localized service delivery and how local authorities deal with the associated coordination challenges. Acknowledging that neither decentralization nor provider networks necessarily prevent fragmented service provision, Martin Heidenreich and Deborah Rice illustrate that an understanding of the European budgetary context, as well as individual network brokerage, is vital for a successful integration of employment and social policies at the local level. Timely and engaging, this innovative book will provide new theoretical perspectives and invaluable empirical materials for academics and students in the field of comparative social policy. Policy makers and officials will also appreciate the editors’ practical approach.
Author | : SALTSA (Program) |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total 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.
Author | : Neil Gilbert |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2017-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351320386 |
The last decade has witnessed a conspicuous alteration in policies protecting unemployed people in modern welfare states. Social policies are increasingly designed to encourage economic independence. Policy makers have introduced a wide range of reforms linking disability, unemployment, and welfare programs cash benefits to work-oriented measures.Welfare policies are being framed by a new emphasis on recipients' obligations, emphasizing that the receipt of benefits creates a responsibility to take action towards becoming self-reliant. The objective is to minimize the duration of dependence or improve the well-being of family or community. Activating the Unemployed addresses this growing interest in work-oriented measures. This represents a shift in the dominant discourse on social welfare from focus on the citizen's rights to social benefits to emphasis on their responsibilities to work and lead an active life. In this volume, a distinguished array of international contributors provide cross-cultural perspectives to analyze recent diverse policy initiatives to activate the unemployed in nine countries-Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Each provides a systematic account of the background, design, implementation, and results of employment-oriented measures. Collectively they permit comparison of organized responses to common problems in the areas of public assistance (welfare), unemployment, and disability, among others. Further chapters seek to broaden perspectives on policy options, the issues raised, and lessons learned in the course of activating the unemployed. This thorough and insightful account addresses significant contemporary issues and concerns about welfare, social security, and unemployment. It will aid policy makers, professionals, and scholars in assessing current trends in welfare in various countries throughout the world.
Author | : Moreira, Amilcar |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2008-06-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 184742354X |
The activation of social welfare recipients has been, and still is, a central issue in the development of social and employment policies in Europe. This ambitious book explores the employment effectiveness of minimum income schemes, and provides the first comprehensive examination of its dependency on how the rights and obligations of the recipients are defined. The book argues that the right to a minimum income can only be adequately justified with reference to the individual's right to personal development. Combining political theory and policy analysis, the author draws on evidence from eight different European countries to illustrate how it is possible to combine higher levels of employment effectiveness with the respect for recipients' right to personal development. Exploring the balance between fairness and effectiveness in the activation of minimum income recipients and acknowledging that individuals have both rights and obligations, this book will provide a useful reference tool to students, researchers and policy-makers with an interest in the work versus welfare nexus.
Author | : van Berkel, Rik |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2002-09-27 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1847425577 |
This book challenges the underlying presupposition that regular employment is the royal road to inclusion. Drawing on original empirical research, it investigates the inclusionary and exclusionary potentials of different types of work, including activation programmes. Active social policies in the EU makes an important contribution to the debates in this area by: reporting on original international comparative research; reflecting on and critically assessing current activating policies; evaluating the consequences of these policies, as well as challenging the premises they are based on; including the perspectives of service users in its analyses; offering recommendations for the future design of activating policies. The book will be invaluable for students, lecturers and researchers of social and labour market policies and policy makers. It is essential reading for those interested in issues of inclusion, activation and the role of types of work in promoting inclusion.
Author | : Lillit Ottosson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789150629590 |
Author | : van Berkel, Rik |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2007-02-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1847422314 |
Public social services are increasingly being individualised in order to better meet the differentiated needs of competent and independent citizens and to promote the effectiveness of social interventions. This book addresses this development, focusing on a new type of social services that has become crucial in the 'modernisation' of welfare states: activation services. The book discusses and analyses the individualisation of activation services against the background of social policy reforms on the one hand, and the introduction of new forms of public governance on the other. Critically discussing the rise of individualised social services in the light of various theoretical points of view, it analyses the way in which activation and the 'active subject' are presented in EU discourse. It compares the introduction of individualised activation services in five EU welfare states: the UK, Germany, Italy, Finland and the Czech Republic, focusing on official policies as well as policy practices. The book provides original insights into the phenomenon of the individualised provision of activation services. It is useful reading for policy makers as well as for students and researchers of welfare states, social policies and public governance.
Author | : Hiilamo, Heikki |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2022-08-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1800880804 |
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This innovative book provides the first in-depth analysis of participatory income and its potential role in countering endemic poverty and unemployment in high-income countries. Heikki Hiilamo reviews the concept of basic income and specific basic income experiments before presenting participatory income as a viable alternative in the fight against poverty.