Increasing Roles for Municipalities in Delivering Public Employment Services
The Cases of Germany and Denmark
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12627748 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthias Knuth (0000-0002-4561-372X, corresponding author), Flemming Larsen (0000-0002-0856-405X) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 174-199 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Security (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1388-2627 • E-ISSN: 2399-2948 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/138826271001200301 |
| OpenAlex | W1528815651 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 20 |
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 changing roles of municipalities in the process of ‘activating’ labour market policy reforms. It does so with regard to organisational development in the process of co-locating or even merging municipal with national agencies, the role of social partners in social protection against unemployment and the public employment service, the impact of municipal social assistance in the process of hybridisation of benefit regimes, and the governance conflicts involved when shifting responsibilities for employment services
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Providing individualized services under complex conditions
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Path Shifting and Path Dependence
Reshaping Welfare States and Activation Regimes in Europe
Reorganizing the welfare state administration
Introduction
Quasi-Markets in Employment Policy
Workfare With Welfare
Towards a Schumpeterian Workfare State? Preliminary Remarks on Post-Fordist Political Economy
Implementing public employment policy
The “double dynamics” of activation
Activating the Unemployed
Reform of the employment and welfare administrations — the challenges of co-coordinating diverse public organizations
Joined-up Government
Bureaucracy Redux
Voluntary Unemployment Insurance and Trade Union Membership
Culture and Welfare State Policies
| Citations per year | 0.71 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |