Introduction: Frontline delivery of welfare-to-work in different European contexts

Autor:	Flemming Larsen, Dorte Caswell, Rik van Berkel
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Public Administration Sociology and Political Science business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Economics Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Punitive damages Resistance (psychoanalysis) Public relations Employability Human capital 0506 political science 050906 social work Political science Unemployment 050602 political science & public administration Sanctions Relevance (law) 0509 other social sciences business Welfare media_common
Zdroj:	International Social Security Review. 71:3-11
ISSN:	0020-871X
DOI:	10.1111/issr.12186
Popis:	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 contain a certain level of disciplining and coercive elements, they also to a varying degree contain elements that focus on the upgrading of skills, building human capital and providing other types of support in promoting labour-market participation. In turn, these policies contain both people processing and people changing technologies that are used for different aspects of policy delivery. In addition, policy developments have gradually expanded the client group of these policies, including more hard-to-place unemployed, thus making the client group more heterogeneous. Finally, we have seen a strong political belief in the positive effects of using punitive sanctions. Research supports this belief when it comes to clients with high employability and limited problems besides unemployment, but the knowledge-base is rather shaky when it comes to the hard-to-place clients with substantial problems. Using punitive sanctions or other disciplining or coercive measures in frontline work has caused controversy and resistance. In order to qualify our understanding of welfare-to-work policies, we need to take a step closer to where these policies are translated into reality for the target group.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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