New Welfare, New Policies
Towards Preventive Worker-Directed Active Labour-Market Policies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2115702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rik Van Berkel (0000-0003-4866-2778, Utrecht University), Paul Van Der Aa (Utrecht University) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 425-442 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047279415000082 |
| OpenAlex | W2031034043 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 43 |
Debates about the new welfare, and the new social policies that go (or should go) with it, share an emphasis on risk-prevention strategies and pluralistic risk management. Focusing specifically on the risk of unemployment, this article discusses the case for so-called preventive worker-directed active labour market policies as part of the new welfare architecture. These policies are aimed at preventing unemployment and promoting labour-market transitions and employability. They involve responsibilities on the part of the state, social partners and employers. First, the case for these policies is elaborated by analysing the social investment, flexicurity and transitional labour-market literature. In this context, several issues related to the feasibility of the pluralistic management of preventing unemployment, as well as the possible impact of pluralistic risk management on dualisation, are discussed. Secondly, recent policy initiatives in the Netherlands are presented as an illustration of the incremental emergence of preventive worker-directed active labour-market policies. It is argued that although these policy initiatives were initially introduced as responses to the crisis, they may eventually turn out to reflect a more fundamental reorientation in managing and dealing with the risks of unemployment. The conclusion critically reflects and argues that pluralistic risk management may exacerbate, rather than mitigate, the insecurities of flexible and non-standard workers
Active labour market policies · Business · Context (archaeology) · Economic growth · Economics · Employability · Flexicurity · Labour economics · Market economy · Political science · Social policy · Unemployment · Welfare · Welfare state · Employment and Welfare Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Activation policies in action
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Work aspirations, intellectual disability and 'cruelling out' the mark in the job club
Cities as social investment frontrunners
Co-Creation in an era of Welfare Conditionality - Lessons from Denmark
Active Labor Market Policies in Europe
Sectoral variation in collectively agreed employment protection
The Politics of the New Welfare State
Flexicurity
Why We Need a New Welfare State
European Welfare States Beyond Neoliberalism
Social risk protection in collective agreements
Paradigms in EU social policy
Changing Welfare States
Flexicurity in crisis
Vocational training, employability and the post-2008 jobs crisis
The Politics of the ‘New’ Welfare States
The Self‐Transformation of the European Social Model(s)
The Quality of Working Life in Welfare Strategy
Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity
Flexicurity – a European Approach to Labour Market Policy
The Transformation of Solidarity
Labour market adjustments during the crisis
Social Investment, Protection and Inequality within the New Economy and Politics of Welfare in Europe
The New Welfare State Settlement in Europe
Preventing Poverty in the European Union
Labour market mobility and workers’ skills in a comparative perspective
Promoting the concept of prevention in social security
Disappointing poverty trends
Industrial Relations as a Source of Social Policy
Investing in the Citizen‐workers of the Future
The social policy of the firm
The politics of the new social policies
Two Decades of Change in Europe
State–Society Relationships, Social Trust and the Development of Labour Market Policies in Italy and Sweden
Private Actors and the State
Time Matters
The politics of employment-friendly welfare reforms in post-industrial economies
Social risk management through transitional labour markets
New Routes to Social Cohesion? Citizenship and the Social Investment State
Solidarity and Reciprocity in the Social Investment State
Selective Flexicurity' in Segmented Labour Markets
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |