Flemming Larsen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4239147 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Flemming Larsen |
| PRENOMES | Flemming |
| SOBRENOME | Larsen |
| ASSINATURA | LARSEN F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0856-405X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 170 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Public management and street-level bureaucrats
Diverging Scandinavian paths towards service coordination and potential consequences for youth with complex problems
Coordinated services are often seen as a solution to complex problems spanning organisational boundaries, such as preventing young people from being marginalised in education and employment. Based on secondary sources, we compare the three Scandinavian countries' paths from traditional public administration to new public management and then towards new public governance with its focus on service coordination. Our analysis shows: (A) Although the …
Activation policy
Policies aimed at upskilling, motivating and/or disciplining the unemployed have remained a cornerstone of most OECD countries’ employment policies since the 1990s. Central to these policies is the idea of activation – i.e. the premise that benefit entitlement is conditional on one’s participation in some kind of activity. This article seek to understand how this idea of activation has proven so enduring by analyzing the international development…
Co-Creation in an era of Welfare Conditionality - Lessons from Denmark
Welfare conditionality, and the underlying understanding of unemployment because of lack of motivation, has been widely criticized. This article analyses if and how more co-created services can be a pathway to address some of these challenges. As Denmark currently is moving towards a softening of welfare conditionality for the vulnerable unemployed, and local authorities try to develop models 'in between' welfare conditionality and genuine user i…
Marketization and Varieties of Accountability Relationships in Employment Services
In the past decade, European countries have contracted out public employment service functions to “activate” working-age benefit clients. There has been limited discussion of how contracting out shapes the accountability of employment services or is shaped by alternative democratic, administrative, or network forms of accountability. This article examines employment service accountability in Germany, Denmark, and Great Britain. We find that marke…
Introduction
This themed issue contributes to European research on the role of front‐line work in the implementation of welfare‐to‐work policies. A number of factors underline the relevance of such study. First, the focus on activating and disciplining the unemployed seen in many countries may on the surface look similar. However, a closer look at these policies and how they unfold in different contexts reveals many and interesting differences. While all cont…
Conclusions and Topics for Future Research
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book outlines the relevance of frontline work studies in the delivery of activation or welfare-to-work policies. It aims to gain insight into how frontline workers in organizations and agencies responsible for the provision of welfare-to-work actually deliver policies and services and how these 'activation practices' are structured…
Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe
The debate on activation policies and challenges to social citizenship has to go beyond the level of formal policy and take into account also its operational and street-level dimension, which shapes what eventually arrives as policy on the ground. In this context, frontline practice plays a crucial role since it constitutes the very moment when activation policies encounter their target groups and real-world solutions have to be found. This artic…
The Marketization of Employment Services
This book examines the marketization of employment services and its consequences in Denmark, Great Britain, and Germany. What concretely does marketization mean in practice? What are its effects on the services and their governance? How does marketization and its effects map against the main ‘regime types’ found in comparative social science? These questions are answered using more than 100 qualitative interviews with policymakers, managers, and …
A New approach to Helping the hard-to-place Unemployed
The reforms of the social and employment services that have swept across most of the developed world since the 1990s have enormously expanded the groups of citizens receiving active employment measures. Nevertheless, up until now, most countries have only seen limited results from enhancing the labour market participation of the most vulnerable groups. We argue that the goal of including a greater share of the harder-to-place unemployed in the la…
The Developing Trajectory of the Marketization of Public Employment Services in Denmark—A New Way Forward or the End of Marketization
This article addresses the market for employment services. It adopts a dynamic perspective on welfare markets and demonstrates how the institutional design of quasi‐markets in the Danish Public Employment service has been promoted, altered, and re‐regulated over a period of 10 years. It was in 2002 when quasi‐markets have been created by using the instrument of contracting‐out employment services to private providers. Seen from the perspective of…
The politics of performance measurement
Performance measurement is intended to improve public decision making and organizational performance. But performance measures are by no means always rational tools for problem solving; rather, they are also political instruments. The central question addressed in this article is how performance measurement affects public policy. The aim is to conceptualize the political consequences of performance measurement, and of special concern is how perfo…
Interpreting the marketization of employment services in Great Britain and Denmark
Marketization is an important component of international shifts in the governance of employment services. Despite contrasting underlying welfare systems and employment services of different scales and character, both Denmark and Great Britain were distinct from many other comparable countries in contracting out employment services in the late-1990s. By comparing the starting positions and divergent trajectories of marketization in these two very …
Work and the Welfare State
Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare state politics, policy and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.
Changing Boundaries
In recent decades, workfare‐style policies have become part of the institutional architecture of welfare and labor market arrangements around the world. In this article, we offer a comparative, historical view of workfare ' s advance. Our analysis recognizes the complexity and diversity of what we call the “policies of workfare” and highlights the different paths through which these policies have developed in the U.S. and parts of Europe. We argu…
Increasing Roles for Municipalities in Delivering Public Employment Services
Literature on labour market policy reforms and, in particular, on ‘activation has tended to treat the ‘state’ or ‘public authorities’ as given actors, no matter how much their roles may change in the process. However, ‘the state’ may have several faces in countries with strong legacies of municipal self-government as well as in countries with a federal constitutional set-up. Taking Denmark and Germany as examples, this article analyses the changi…
Quasi-Markets in Employment Policy
This article focuses on the contracting-out of Public Employments Services. Quasi-markets promise to deliver more efficient, effective and de-bureaucratised employment services. By comparing experiences from Holland, Australia and Denmark we investigate whether quasi-markets deliver on promises. Quasi-market models have difficulties in living up to the preconditions for a well-functioning market and political expectations. Efficiency gains and co…
Flexicurity
Flexicurity – the contraction of flexibility and security – has in a short time become a political celebrity. In this article we trace back the genealogy of this celebrity. We begin by analysing the reasons behind the current celebration of flexicurity by the European Commission, and describe the European evolution of the concept. Then we take one step backwards and describe the conceptualisation and development of the Danish case of flexicurity,…
Implementing public employment policy
Purpose The purpose of the article is to analyse the interconnections between formal policy reforms and operational policies, specifically between new governance and employment policy. The main question is what happens to public employment policies when they are contracted out to non‐public (for‐profit and not‐for‐profit) agencies? Design/methodology/approach The case is the contracting out of the public employment services in Australia, Holland,…
Opportunities and challenges for flexicurity - The Danish example
The contraction of two previously opposed concepts, ‘flexibility’ and ‘security’, into that of flexicurity has become one of the most popular labour market concepts in recent years, and one that seems to cross European borders relatively easily. Seen in an international perspective, Denmark is characterised by a relatively flexible labour market and an extensive social security system. It is widely assumed that these favourable results are due to…
The Importance of Institutional Regimes for Active Labour Market Policies — The Case of Denmark
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the Danish labour market policy as an example of ‘transitional labour market’ (TLM) and ‘flexicurity’ arrangements, and to assess what general lessons, if any, can be learnt from the Danish example. That is, it seeks to determine whether any implied and express conditions were prerequisites for its success. The article begins by taking a close look at the political history of the Danish labour market, with a b…
Quasi-Markets in Employment Policy
This article focuses on the contracting-out of Public Employments Services. Quasi-markets promise to deliver more efficient, effective and de-bureaucratised employment services. By comparing experiences from Holland, Australia and Denmark we investigate whether quasi-markets deliver on promises. Quasi-market models have difficulties in living up to the preconditions for a well-functioning market and political expectations. Efficiency gains and co…
Work and the Welfare State
Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare state politics, policy and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.
Interpreting the marketization of employment services in Great Britain and Denmark
Marketization is an important component of international shifts in the governance of employment services. Despite contrasting underlying welfare systems and employment services of different scales and character, both Denmark and Great Britain were distinct from many other comparable countries in contracting out employment services in the late-1990s. By comparing the starting positions and divergent trajectories of marketization in these two very …
A New approach to Helping the hard-to-place Unemployed
The reforms of the social and employment services that have swept across most of the developed world since the 1990s have enormously expanded the groups of citizens receiving active employment measures. Nevertheless, up until now, most countries have only seen limited results from enhancing the labour market participation of the most vulnerable groups. We argue that the goal of including a greater share of the harder-to-place unemployed in the la…
The politics of performance measurement
Performance measurement is intended to improve public decision making and organizational performance. But performance measures are by no means always rational tools for problem solving; rather, they are also political instruments. The central question addressed in this article is how performance measurement affects public policy. The aim is to conceptualize the political consequences of performance measurement, and of special concern is how perfo…
Co-Creation in an era of Welfare Conditionality - Lessons from Denmark
Welfare conditionality, and the underlying understanding of unemployment because of lack of motivation, has been widely criticized. This article analyses if and how more co-created services can be a pathway to address some of these challenges. As Denmark currently is moving towards a softening of welfare conditionality for the vulnerable unemployed, and local authorities try to develop models 'in between' welfare conditionality and genuine user i…
Marketization and Varieties of Accountability Relationships in Employment Services
In the past decade, European countries have contracted out public employment service functions to “activate” working-age benefit clients. There has been limited discussion of how contracting out shapes the accountability of employment services or is shaped by alternative democratic, administrative, or network forms of accountability. This article examines employment service accountability in Germany, Denmark, and Great Britain. We find that marke…
Implementing public employment policy
Purpose The purpose of the article is to analyse the interconnections between formal policy reforms and operational policies, specifically between new governance and employment policy. The main question is what happens to public employment policies when they are contracted out to non‐public (for‐profit and not‐for‐profit) agencies? Design/methodology/approach The case is the contracting out of the public employment services in Australia, Holland,…
Introduction
This themed issue contributes to European research on the role of front‐line work in the implementation of welfare‐to‐work policies. A number of factors underline the relevance of such study. First, the focus on activating and disciplining the unemployed seen in many countries may on the surface look similar. However, a closer look at these policies and how they unfold in different contexts reveals many and interesting differences. While all cont…
Changing Boundaries
In recent decades, workfare‐style policies have become part of the institutional architecture of welfare and labor market arrangements around the world. In this article, we offer a comparative, historical view of workfare ' s advance. Our analysis recognizes the complexity and diversity of what we call the “policies of workfare” and highlights the different paths through which these policies have developed in the U.S. and parts of Europe. We argu…
Flexicurity
Flexicurity – the contraction of flexibility and security – has in a short time become a political celebrity. In this article we trace back the genealogy of this celebrity. We begin by analysing the reasons behind the current celebration of flexicurity by the European Commission, and describe the European evolution of the concept. Then we take one step backwards and describe the conceptualisation and development of the Danish case of flexicurity,…
Activation policy
Policies aimed at upskilling, motivating and/or disciplining the unemployed have remained a cornerstone of most OECD countries’ employment policies since the 1990s. Central to these policies is the idea of activation – i.e. the premise that benefit entitlement is conditional on one’s participation in some kind of activity. This article seek to understand how this idea of activation has proven so enduring by analyzing the international development…
Public management and street-level bureaucrats
Increasing Roles for Municipalities in Delivering Public Employment Services
Literature on labour market policy reforms and, in particular, on ‘activation has tended to treat the ‘state’ or ‘public authorities’ as given actors, no matter how much their roles may change in the process. However, ‘the state’ may have several faces in countries with strong legacies of municipal self-government as well as in countries with a federal constitutional set-up. Taking Denmark and Germany as examples, this article analyses the changi…
The Importance of Institutional Regimes for Active Labour Market Policies — The Case of Denmark
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the Danish labour market policy as an example of ‘transitional labour market’ (TLM) and ‘flexicurity’ arrangements, and to assess what general lessons, if any, can be learnt from the Danish example. That is, it seeks to determine whether any implied and express conditions were prerequisites for its success. The article begins by taking a close look at the political history of the Danish labour market, with a b…
The Developing Trajectory of the Marketization of Public Employment Services in Denmark—A New Way Forward or the End of Marketization
This article addresses the market for employment services. It adopts a dynamic perspective on welfare markets and demonstrates how the institutional design of quasi‐markets in the Danish Public Employment service has been promoted, altered, and re‐regulated over a period of 10 years. It was in 2002 when quasi‐markets have been created by using the instrument of contracting‐out employment services to private providers. Seen from the perspective of…
The Importance of Institutional Regimes for Active Labour Market Policies — The Case of Denmark
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the Danish labour market policy as an example of ‘transitional labour market’ (TLM) and ‘flexicurity’ arrangements, and to assess what general lessons, if any, can be learnt from the Danish example. That is, it seeks to determine whether any implied and express conditions were prerequisites for its success. The article begins by taking a close look at the political history of the Danish labour market, with a b…
Opportunities and challenges for flexicurity - The Danish example
The contraction of two previously opposed concepts, ‘flexibility’ and ‘security’, into that of flexicurity has become one of the most popular labour market concepts in recent years, and one that seems to cross European borders relatively easily. Seen in an international perspective, Denmark is characterised by a relatively flexible labour market and an extensive social security system. It is widely assumed that these favourable results are due to…
Implementing public employment policy
Purpose The purpose of the article is to analyse the interconnections between formal policy reforms and operational policies, specifically between new governance and employment policy. The main question is what happens to public employment policies when they are contracted out to non‐public (for‐profit and not‐for‐profit) agencies? Design/methodology/approach The case is the contracting out of the public employment services in Australia, Holland,…
Quasi-Markets in Employment Policy
This article focuses on the contracting-out of Public Employments Services. Quasi-markets promise to deliver more efficient, effective and de-bureaucratised employment services. By comparing experiences from Holland, Australia and Denmark we investigate whether quasi-markets deliver on promises. Quasi-market models have difficulties in living up to the preconditions for a well-functioning market and political expectations. Efficiency gains and co…
Flexicurity
Flexicurity – the contraction of flexibility and security – has in a short time become a political celebrity. In this article we trace back the genealogy of this celebrity. We begin by analysing the reasons behind the current celebration of flexicurity by the European Commission, and describe the European evolution of the concept. Then we take one step backwards and describe the conceptualisation and development of the Danish case of flexicurity,…
Increasing Roles for Municipalities in Delivering Public Employment Services
Literature on labour market policy reforms and, in particular, on ‘activation has tended to treat the ‘state’ or ‘public authorities’ as given actors, no matter how much their roles may change in the process. However, ‘the state’ may have several faces in countries with strong legacies of municipal self-government as well as in countries with a federal constitutional set-up. Taking Denmark and Germany as examples, this article analyses the changi…
Work and the Welfare State
Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare state politics, policy and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.
Changing Boundaries
In recent decades, workfare‐style policies have become part of the institutional architecture of welfare and labor market arrangements around the world. In this article, we offer a comparative, historical view of workfare ' s advance. Our analysis recognizes the complexity and diversity of what we call the “policies of workfare” and highlights the different paths through which these policies have developed in the U.S. and parts of Europe. We argu…
The politics of performance measurement
Performance measurement is intended to improve public decision making and organizational performance. But performance measures are by no means always rational tools for problem solving; rather, they are also political instruments. The central question addressed in this article is how performance measurement affects public policy. The aim is to conceptualize the political consequences of performance measurement, and of special concern is how perfo…
Interpreting the marketization of employment services in Great Britain and Denmark
Marketization is an important component of international shifts in the governance of employment services. Despite contrasting underlying welfare systems and employment services of different scales and character, both Denmark and Great Britain were distinct from many other comparable countries in contracting out employment services in the late-1990s. By comparing the starting positions and divergent trajectories of marketization in these two very …
The Developing Trajectory of the Marketization of Public Employment Services in Denmark—A New Way Forward or the End of Marketization
This article addresses the market for employment services. It adopts a dynamic perspective on welfare markets and demonstrates how the institutional design of quasi‐markets in the Danish Public Employment service has been promoted, altered, and re‐regulated over a period of 10 years. It was in 2002 when quasi‐markets have been created by using the instrument of contracting‐out employment services to private providers. Seen from the perspective of…
Conclusions and Topics for Future Research
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book outlines the relevance of frontline work studies in the delivery of activation or welfare-to-work policies. It aims to gain insight into how frontline workers in organizations and agencies responsible for the provision of welfare-to-work actually deliver policies and services and how these 'activation practices' are structured…
Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe
The debate on activation policies and challenges to social citizenship has to go beyond the level of formal policy and take into account also its operational and street-level dimension, which shapes what eventually arrives as policy on the ground. In this context, frontline practice plays a crucial role since it constitutes the very moment when activation policies encounter their target groups and real-world solutions have to be found. This artic…
The Marketization of Employment Services
This book examines the marketization of employment services and its consequences in Denmark, Great Britain, and Germany. What concretely does marketization mean in practice? What are its effects on the services and their governance? How does marketization and its effects map against the main ‘regime types’ found in comparative social science? These questions are answered using more than 100 qualitative interviews with policymakers, managers, and …
A New approach to Helping the hard-to-place Unemployed
The reforms of the social and employment services that have swept across most of the developed world since the 1990s have enormously expanded the groups of citizens receiving active employment measures. Nevertheless, up until now, most countries have only seen limited results from enhancing the labour market participation of the most vulnerable groups. We argue that the goal of including a greater share of the harder-to-place unemployed in the la…
Marketization and Varieties of Accountability Relationships in Employment Services
In the past decade, European countries have contracted out public employment service functions to “activate” working-age benefit clients. There has been limited discussion of how contracting out shapes the accountability of employment services or is shaped by alternative democratic, administrative, or network forms of accountability. This article examines employment service accountability in Germany, Denmark, and Great Britain. We find that marke…
Introduction
This themed issue contributes to European research on the role of front‐line work in the implementation of welfare‐to‐work policies. A number of factors underline the relevance of such study. First, the focus on activating and disciplining the unemployed seen in many countries may on the surface look similar. However, a closer look at these policies and how they unfold in different contexts reveals many and interesting differences. While all cont…
Co-Creation in an era of Welfare Conditionality - Lessons from Denmark
Welfare conditionality, and the underlying understanding of unemployment because of lack of motivation, has been widely criticized. This article analyses if and how more co-created services can be a pathway to address some of these challenges. As Denmark currently is moving towards a softening of welfare conditionality for the vulnerable unemployed, and local authorities try to develop models 'in between' welfare conditionality and genuine user i…
Activation policy
Policies aimed at upskilling, motivating and/or disciplining the unemployed have remained a cornerstone of most OECD countries’ employment policies since the 1990s. Central to these policies is the idea of activation – i.e. the premise that benefit entitlement is conditional on one’s participation in some kind of activity. This article seek to understand how this idea of activation has proven so enduring by analyzing the international development…
Public management and street-level bureaucrats
Diverging Scandinavian paths towards service coordination and potential consequences for youth with complex problems
Coordinated services are often seen as a solution to complex problems spanning organisational boundaries, such as preventing young people from being marginalised in education and employment. Based on secondary sources, we compare the three Scandinavian countries' paths from traditional public administration to new public management and then towards new public governance with its focus on service coordination. Our analysis shows: (A) Although the …
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