The European Commission’s ideas on integrating underrepresented groups into the labour market

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ID7989461
AuthorsLea Foverskov (0000-0002-5794-4921, Copenhagen Business School, corresponding author), Lea Acre Foverskov (Copenhagen Business School)
Year2020
Volume22
Issue5
Pages604-634
Publication date2020-08-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Politics and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2374-5126 • E-ISSN: 2374-5118
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23745118.2020.1807223
OpenAlexW3049060992
LanguageEN
References cited51

The paper explores the European Commission’s ideas on social policy. It contributes to the debate on asymmetric economic and social policies in the EU from an ideational perspective. Analysing Commission reports on labour markets, employment, and social affairs over a fifteen-year period (2004–2018), I seek to understand what ideas on employment of underrepresented labour market groups are prominent in the reports and whether there is variation over time. To do so, I draw on the theoretical literature on ideas. The paper concludes that the Commission’s approach to underrepresented groups in the labour market has been and remains justified by an economic growth-discourse, leading to frames and policy ideas dominated by supply-side thinking. Thus, there has been a lack of new policy solutions to underrepresented labour market groups over the past fifteen years, revealing a lack of ideational innovation in the Commission’s early-stage policy formulation

Business · Commission · Economics · European commission · European union · International trade · Labour economics · Medical education · Political science · Underrepresented Minority · European Union Policy and Governance · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Medicine · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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