Comparative Social Policy Analysis and Active Labour Market Policy
Putting Quality before Quantity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2115736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jochen Clasen (0000-0002-1696-6788, University of Edinburgh), Daniel Clegg (0009-0007-6563-9605, University of Edinburgh), Alexander Goerne (Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-38 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| 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/s0047279415000434 |
| OpenAlex | W2288113585 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 52 |
In the past decade, active labour market policy (ALMP) has become a major topic in comparative social policy analysis, with scholars exploiting cross-national variation to seek to identify the determinants of policy development in this central area of the 'new welfare state'. In this paper, we argue that better integration of this policy field into social policy scholarship requires rather more critical engagement with considerable methodological, conceptual and theoretical challenges in order to analyse these policies comparatively. Most fundamentally, rather more reflection is needed on what the substantially relevant dimensions of variation in ALMP from a social policy perspective actually are, as well as enhanced efforts to ensure that it is those that are being analysed and compared
Economic growth · Economics · Field (mathematics) · Market economy · Order (exchange) · Perspective (graphical) · Policy analysis · Policy studies · Political science · Positive economics · Public economics · Public policy · Quality (philosophy) · Scholarship · Social policy · Sociology · Variation (astronomy) · Welfare · Welfare state · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Activation measures through the lens of governmentality
Contextualising institutional complementarity. How long‐term unemployment depends on employment protection legislation, active labour market policies and the economic climate
Unemployment reduction or labor force expansion? How partisanship matters for the design of active labor market policy in Europe
Associations between change in labour market policies and work stressors
Determinants of public employment services
The Multi-Tool Nature of Active Labour Market Policy and its Implications for Partisan Politics in Advanced Democracies
Welfare conditionality in OECD countries and in Latin America
Comparative Measurement of Citizens’ Perceptions of Local Policies
Better job prospects or an imperative to ‘just work’? A cross‐national study on social investment and women's employment
Automation and public support for workfare
What, for whom, and under what circumstances
A street-level bureaucrat discourse on activation of migrant women
Gendered Activation at the Expense of Gender Equality? Activation and Gender Equality as Competing Logics in the Swedish Welfare State
I feel good here’
Subsidising silence
Partisanship, continuity, and change
A typology of activation incentives
Partisan ideology, veto players and their combined effect on productive and protective welfare policy
A simultaneous-equation model of active labour market policies and change in unemployment rate
Exploring activation
Unpacking Welfare Deservingness Theory
Varieties of Employment Subsidy Design
Das Aktivierungsparadigma als dominantes Prinzip der Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und Dänemark im Vergleich
Social functioning and personal development among individuals with low literacy skills; the role of active labour market policy
Wishing for More
Digital Practices of Negotiation
Lost in Categorisation? Employment Subsidies - Bringing the Beneficiaries Back In
Activation is not a panacea
Why Countries 'Get Tough on the Work-Shy
Who Wants Demanding Active Labour Market Policies? Public Attitudes towards Policies that put Pressure on the Unemployed
State Structures and the Possibilities for “Keynesian” Responses to the Great Depression in Sweden, Britain, and the United States
The Politics of the New Welfare State
Reforming European Welfare States
Activating Workers? The Political Economy of Active Social Policy in Postindustrial Democracies
The Origins of Active Social Policy
Active labour market policy in a changing economic context.1
Blame Avoidance and Credit Claiming Revisited
Active Labour Market Policies and Welfare Reform
“Fleshing Out” the Benefits of Adopting a Vegetarian Diet
Investigating Welfare State Change
Political Parties, Growth and Equality
The Origins of Active Social Policy
From the Manpower Revolution to the Activation Paradigm
The Governance of Active Welfare States
Activation or Workfare? Governance and the Neo-Liberal Convergence
The Governance of Active Welfare States in Europe
Third Way Reforms
The Political Economy of Unemployment
The Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
The three political economies of the welfare state
Beyond Activation Reforming European Unemployment Protection Systems in Post-Industrial Labour Markets
The Impact of Welfare and Labour Market Institutions on Informal Recruitment in European Youth Labour Markets
Less Bad than its Reputation
Mixing apples with oranges? Partisanship and active labour market policies in Europe
Decommodification and activation in social democratic policy
Why Some People Are More Unemployed than Others
The Dutch and Danish Miracles Revisited
Quantity over quality
The Political Economy of Unemployment
Benefit dependency
Active Labour Market Policy Evaluations
Unemployment as an Institutional Construct? Structural Differences in Non-Employment between Selected European Countries and the United States
Parties, Unions and Activation Strategies
The Unemployment Industry
States of welfare or states of workfare? Welfare state restructuring in 16 capitalist democracies, 1985–2002
Measuring social citizenship
Fiscal austerity and the trade-off between public investment and social spending
Active labour market policy, international organizations and domestic politics
Europeanization and the political economy of active labour market policies
Making markets with active labor market policies
Under which conditions does spending on active labor market policies increase? An fsQCA analysis of 53 governments between 1985 and 2003
The Welfare State and the Economy in Periods of Economic Crisis
Social Democracy and Active Labour-Market Policies
Unemployment Insurance and Active Labor Market Policy
The Expansion of the Public Economy
Insider-Outsider Politics in Industrialized Democracies
The Political Economy of Active Labor-Market Policy
Exit Bismarck, Enter Dualism? Assessing Contemporary German Labour Market Policy
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |