Description
Book SynopsisContracting-out Welfare Services focuses on the design and overhaul of welfare-to-work systems around the world in the light of the radical re-design of the welfare system; internationally based authors utilise a national/program case study, considering employment services policy and activation practices.
- International contributors bring a global comparative perspective to the subject
- Contributors are all experts in their field, who also draw on a much longer intellectual legacy
- Uses employment services as a case study to advance understanding in relation to a host of broader principles and concepts
- Each paper included within the text uses a national/program case study, and each considers employment services policy in general, and activation practices in particular
Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii
Introduction: Contracting]out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance 1
Mark Considine and Siobhan O’Sullivan
1 Local Worlds of Marketization – Employment Policies in Germany, Italy and the UK Compared 11
Katharina Zimmermann, Patrizia Aurich, Paolo R. Graziano and Vanesa Fuertes
2 Varieties of Market Competition in Public Employment Services – A Comparison of the Emergence and Evolution of the New System in Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium 33
Ludo Struyven
3 Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not-for-profits Organizations – An Australian Study 55
Mark Considine, Siobhan O’Sullivan and Phuc Nguyen
4 Quasi-markets and the Delivery of Activation – A Frontline Perspective 75
Rik van Berkel
5 Conditionality and the Financing of Employment Services – Implications for the Social Divisions of Work and Welfare 91
Isabel Shutes and Rebecca Taylor
6 Support for All in the UK Work Programme? Differential Payments, Same Old Problem 109
James Rees, Adam Whitworth and Elle Carter
7 Broken Hierarchies, Quasi-markets and Supported Networks – A Governance Experiment in the Second Tier of Germany’s Public Employment Service 129
Matthias Knuth
8 The Public Accountability of Privatized Activation – The Case of Israel 151
Avishai Benish
Index 167
