...This chapter provides a summary of active labour market policies (ALMPs) to date and makes the case for the inclusion of analysis on employers. In the decades since the resurgence of ALMPs in the 1990s, a critical limitation identified by numerous studies is that ALMPs are too focused on the supply...

... of rehabilitation and reintegration at a deeper level. Demands of self-activation and entrepreneurship of the self unduly responsibilise justice-involved persons as if they were entirely in charge of their rehabilitative journeys, potentially criminalising them further along the way. This chapter...

... Drawing on contemporary research in sociology and social policy, this chapter describes the landscape of the contemporary welfare state, unemployment and Jobseeking in the labour market. In particular we examine active labour market policies (ALMPs) as an increasingly pervasive form...

... of welfare conditionality, internationally, is linked to the foregrounding of contractualism and activation inherent in ongoing reforms in many diverse, contemporary national welfare states. It is concluded that welfare conditionality reconfigures and diminishes the notion of social citizenship. benefit...

... active labour market policies education employment assistance measures employment protection legislation EPL human capital incentive reinforcement measures information and communication technologies unemployment benefits vocational training women atypical employment drift policy Hacker J S...

... of activation and flexicurity, and their consequences for the living standards of the most vulnerable groups. The objective of labour market changes seems to be to increase flexibility and to implement activation (and social investment) more fully, as well as to improve the position of the most vulnerable...

...The chapter disentangles the interplay of diversity and equality in Europe from a historical perspective and based on in depth-analysis of case studies in the field of education, intercultural learning and labour market activation. It identifies cultural hierarchies as key causes of poverty...

... with two sets of literatures. Firstly, scholars that have tried to theorize the varieties within the active turn, and secondly, with existing conceptualisations of the role of ideas and morality in relation to political and institutional changes. The last part of the chapter outlines a non-normative...

.... The chapter examines poverty and employment from the perspective of the child, exploring the implications for children of parental employment, unemployment, worklessness, low pay, and insecure employment. With the increase across the developed world of labour market activation, and the dominant status...

...The activation of social protection is one of the most important current transformations of social protection across Europe. However, there is disagreement about how it should be interpreted. This chapter argues that the concept of activation can be used in both a broad and narrow sense...

...This chapter focuses on the employment effectiveness of minimum income schemes. Before discussing the analysis, the chapter first clarifies what is actually meant by employment effectiveness. Activation means a policy of combining negative and positive incentives to aid income support recipients...

...This chapter examines the development of active social policies, and elaborates upon the concept of activation. It explores the shift from passive to active social policies in the EU in general, and at the EU policy making level in particular, as a paradigm shift in which the main objective...

... inactivity Public Employment Services PES services social partners youth active labour market policies ALMP activation European Commission European Social Fund ESF new technologies regulated labour markets social security traineeships Esping Andersen Gøsta Spain Anglo Saxon early retirement...

...Since the 1990s, the OECD and EU have fostered activation policies in the struggle against unemployment. Two regimes have been identified as archetypes of the activation policies: the social democrat regime (Northern European model) and the liberal regime (Anglo-Saxon model). Within the liberal...

...In the last decades, rights to social assistance benefits have become more conditional. Governments in Europe, as in other welfare states, have sought to ‘activate’ their unemployed citizens by requiring them to participate in mandatory work programmes. This chapter examines how liberal...

... to try out new and innovative activation programs, is currently being restructured by subtle changes that increase the incentives to take up activations programs that support WTW strategies. Brodkin E Z Denmark implementation of policies governing of recipients incentives disincentives mechanisms...

... retrenchment or expansion have taken place; whether there has been a shift in the logic of activation policies; and how retrenchment and expansion of protection have been distributed across the well-protected and the less well-protected labour market populations. Looking at the big European picture, do we see...

...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. This book makes an important...

... globalization institutional games activation general institutional rules local regulatory arrangements LRA non activation general institutional policies implicit hypotheses institutional reforms reforms institutional public action resources budgets resource related institutional policies sectoral...