Activation and Labour Market Reforms in Europe

Activation and Labour Market Reforms in Europe

Author: S. Betzelt

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-06-14

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0230307639

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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.


Labour Market Reforms in Portugal 2011-15 A Preliminary Assessment

Labour Market Reforms in Portugal 2011-15 A Preliminary Assessment

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2017-02-21

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 9264269576

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This report evaluates the comprehensive labour market reforms undertaken in Portugal in 2011-15. It reviews reforms in employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits, activation, collective bargaining, minimum wages and working time, and assesses the available evidence on their impact.


Europe Reforms Labour Markets

Europe Reforms Labour Markets

Author: Aart De Geus

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-03-07

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 3110365103

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Focusing on the perspectives of policy-makers, the book's purpose is to closely examine the factors that make for successful/unsuccessful labor market related policy reforms. The aim is to reveal the political aspects, namely the chances, challenges and impediments to designing labor market reforms and to establish the conditions under which successful labor market reforms can be advocated, adopted and implemented (process). The work includes exclusive interviews with twelve former European prime ministers about the labour market reforms they initiated in their respective countries: Wolfgang Schüssel Anders Fogh Rasmussen Andrus Ansip François Fillon Gerhard Schröder Georgios Papandreou Mario Monti Jan Peter Balkenende Jerzy Buzek Iveta Radicová Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Tony Blair


Labour Market Policies in the Era of Pervasive Austerity

Labour Market Policies in the Era of Pervasive Austerity

Author: Sotiria Theodoropoulou

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2018-02-28

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1447335864

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This book offers a close examination of current labor market and unemployment policies throughout Europe from 2010, when post-crisis austerity became the norm, to the present. Expert contributors present detailed national case studies, showing how policies have changed--or, in some cases, remained largely the same--in this period; taken together, the case studies enable researchers to make fruitful comparisons across the continent and determine what direction policy has been moving and whether those policy changes have been effective.


Labour Market and Social Protection Reforms in International Perspective

Labour Market and Social Protection Reforms in International Perspective

Author: Giuliano Bonoli

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1351923749

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Social protection systems and labour markets have undergone major changes in the past two decades. Welfare states are being reformed, scaled back and modernised; labour markets, at the same time, are more precarious, more feminised, more unequal, and throughout the OECD area, older. The interaction between labour markets and social protection has become increasingly crucial to the social and economic policy mix concerning unemployment, the transformation of work, the new poverty, and even demographics. Against this background, an interdisciplinary team of leading labour market and social protection experts from various OECD countries examine the multifaceted aspects of the changing relationship between social protection systems and labour markets. They identify and analyse key emerging issues, such as the link between employment and social protection financing, the adaptation of social protection systems to women's career patterns, and the development of new forms of social protection that aim at promoting employment. With practical policy guides and recommendations using case studies and comparative chapters, this will be engaging reading for policy-makers, social actors and academics alike.


The European Labour Market

The European Labour Market

Author: Floro Ernesto Caroleo

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-03-14

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9783790816792

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This book brings together up-to-date findings on the regional dimensions of European labour markets. It provides a conceptual and empirical study of the interactions between the European economy and its regions, paying particular attention to the issue of the transition of Central and Eastern European countries to a market economy. The topics analysed include: the structure of the shocks affecting employment (regional, industrial, national), the relationships between labour market efficiency and the regional distribution of unemployment, wage flexibility in EU member countries or in their regions and the role of active labour market policies in affecting the regional distribution of employment and unemployment.


Matching Economic Migration with Labour Market Needs

Matching Economic Migration with Labour Market Needs

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2014-09-18

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9264216502

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This publication gathers the papers presented at the “OECD-EU dialogue on mobility and international migration: matching economic migration with labour market needs” (Brussels, 24-25 February 2014), a conference jointly organised by the European Commission and the OECD.


Ideas and Welfare State Reform in Western Europe

Ideas and Welfare State Reform in Western Europe

Author: P. Taylor-Gooby

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-08-02

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0230286011

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The new welfare settlement in Europe involves a re-direction of policy in the context of a unified market and currency system and of more stringent economic competition. Realignment of the policy assumptions and goals of the key actors is central to this process. This book reviews the main policy paradigms and analyzes the processes whereby they have changed in the most salient policy areas, and is based on recent interviews with more than two hundred and fifty senior policy actors in seven West European countries.


Changing labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship

Changing labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship

Author: Goul Andersen, Jørgen

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2002-01-23

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1847425402

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Changing labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship readdresses the question of how full citizenship may be preserved and developed in the face of enduring labour market pressures. It: clarifies the relationship between changing labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship; discusses possible ways in which the spill-over effect from labour market marginality to loss of citizenship can be prevented; specifies this problem in relation to the young, older people, men and women and immigrants; offers theoretical and conceptual definitions of citizenship as a new, alternative approach to empirical analyses of labour market marginalisation and its consequences; highlights the lessons to be learned from differing approaches in European countries.