Unemployment and Activation Policies in Europe and the US

Unemployment and Activation Policies in Europe and the US

Jorgensen, Henning; Schulze, Michaela

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

11/2024

302

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9781035325603

15 a 20 dias

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Contents
1 Introduction: Unemployment and activation policies in
Europe and the US 1
Henning Jorgensen and Michaela Schulze
2 Understandings of activation 29
Henning Jorgensen 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 Jorgensen 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 Harslof and Ivar Lodemel
9 Institutional fragmentation and low effectiveness in the
Spanish activation turn 179
Laureano Martinez and Begona 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 Jorgensen and Michaela Schulze
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Unemployment; Activation strategies; Activation programmes; Workfare; Work-first; Human capital