Contracting-out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance

Contracting-out Welfare Services focuses on the design and overhaul of welfare-to-work systems around the world in the light of the radical re-design of the welfare system; internationally based authors utilise a national/program case study, considering employment services policy and activation practices.

• International contributors bring a global comparative perspective to the subject
• Contributors are all experts in their field, who also draw on a much longer intellectual legacy
• Uses employment services as a case study to advance understanding in relation to a host of broader principles and concepts
• Each paper included within the text uses a national/program case study, and each considers employment services policy in general, and activation practices in particular

Nyckelord: Welfare services, welfare system, employment policies, market competition, public employment services, not-for-profit organisations, quasi markets, delivery of activation social divisions of work, social divisions of welfare, employment services, UK Work Programme, Job Services Australia, privatised activation, unemployment assistance, welfare-to-work systems, employment services privatization, jobseeker activation, New Public Management, social policy, public policy, activation, the welfare state, the third sector, ‘flexsecurity’, mission drift, General & Introductory Social Policy & Welfare, Social Policy, General & Introductory Social Policy & Welfare, Social Policy