Unemployment and Activation Policies in Europe and the US

Henning Jørgensen, Michaela Schulze (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

302 Seiten

2024
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-2560-3 (ISBN)

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This insightful book presents a detailed analysis of the activation policies utilized by governments across Europe and the US. Editors Henning Jørgensen and Michaela Schulze bring together a wealth of experts to collate key developments in activation policies, acknowledging the different ways in which countries and governments attempt to combat unemployment and the importance of subnational governance capabilities.

Contributing authors explore multiple activation policies through political, policy, polity, economic and cultural lenses, outlining the consequences of these for the unemployed and other actors involved. In particular, partisan politics and central steering experienced in the UK, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Switzerland and the US are analyzed, as well as social security and labour market policies developed in the Netherlands, Norway and Germany. The book emphasizes the advantages of investigating national rather than cross-national studies as they bring to the forefront crucial actors and administrative systems that affect activation reforms. Ultimately, it highlights why and how activation is developed in different ways in national systems and advocates for further research as activation is entering a new phase.

Unemployment and Activation Policies in Europe and the US is an excellent resource for students and researchers specialising in comparative social policy, public policy, labour market policy and the sociology of work.

Edited by Henning Jørgensen, Professor and Research Manager, University College Northern Jutland, Denmark and Michaela Schulze, Professor of Political Science, University of Applied Labour Studies, Germany

Contents
1 Introduction: Unemployment and activation policies in
Europe and the US 1
Henning Jørgensen and Michaela Schulze
2 Understandings of activation 29
Henning Jørgensen and Michaela Schulze
3 Crisis and political power relations: the development of
activation policies in Austria before and after COVID 54
Simon Theurl and Silvia Hofbauer
4 The Danish case: activation in flux and fraught with tensions 76
Henning Jørgensen and Mads Peter Klindt
5 Activation in the universal welfare state: the case of Finland 100
Minna van Gerven and Aleksander Heikkinen
6 An activation U-turn? From pro-market employment
orientation to investment in human capital 121
Werner Eichhorst and Michaela Schulze
7 Activation policies in the Netherlands: the vicissitudes of
general social policy and activating labour market policies
since the 1990s 145
Romke van der Veen and Ferry Koster
8 Norway: activation in the labouring society 160
Ivan Harsløf and Ivar Lødemel
9 Institutional fragmentation and low effectiveness in the
Spanish activation turn 179
Laureano Martinez and Begoña Cueto
10 Switzerland: activation in a fragmented welfare state 203
Giuliano Bonoli
11 Between extension and emasculation: the UK activation
regime in the 21st century 217
Daniel Clegg
12 Activation in the United States: low effort, fragmented
administration, and poor performance 241
Ian Greer
13 Concluding remarks to a changing activation world 260
Henning Jørgensen and Michaela Schulze

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	The Future of Work and Employment series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-0353-2560-8 / 1035325608
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-2560-3 / 9781035325603
Zustand	Neuware