Contracting-Out Welfare Services - Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance

Contracting-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.

List of contents

List 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

Product details

• Authors: &apos, Mark Considine, Mark (University of Melbourne) Considine, M O Sullivan, O&, O&apos, Siobha O'Sullivan, Siobhan O'Sullivan, S. O''sullivan, Siobhan Considine O''sullivan, Siobhan O&, Siobhan Considine sullivan
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.02.2015
• EAN: 9781119016496
• ISBN: 978-1-119-01649-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy; Broadening Perspectives in Soc; Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy; Broadening Perspectives in Soc
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Soziologie, Sozialpolitik, Wohlfahrt, Rechtssoziologie, Sociology, Social Policy & Welfare, Sozialpolitik u. Wohlfahrt, Allg. Sozialpolitik u. Wohlfahrt, Sociology of Law