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Provides an overview of activating labor market strategies in selected European countries and the US
Shows most successful instruments in reaching reintegration into the labor market and social integration
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Over the last decade, many industrialized countries shifted from passive unemployment and welfare benefit regimes and traditional active labor market and social policies to activation strategies by making benefit receipt conditional upon accepting job offers or participation in active labor market schemes. But countries differ with regard to the design of activation instruments and their implementation, the definition of target groups and the effects of activation in the national labor market setting. This volume provides an up-to-date overview of activation strategies in unemployment benefit systems and social assistance in selected European countries and the US. A particular focus lies on the development of activation schemes, governance and implementation as well as on the outcomes of activation in terms of labor market and social integration. The volume is the first to address these issues both from a socio-economic and a legal perspective.
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Book Title: Bringing the Jobless into Work?
Book Subtitle: Experiences with Activation Schemes in Europe and the US
Editors: Werner Eichhorst, Otto Kaufmann, Regina Konle-Seidl
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77435-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-77434-1Published: 25 September 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09607-5Published: 10 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-77435-8Published: 09 September 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 473
Topics: Labor Economics, Social Work