an article by Sarah Marchal and Natascha van Mechelen (University of Antwerp, Belgium) published in Social Policy & Administration Volume 51 Issue 1 (January 2017)
Abstract
This article assesses the current variation in activation strategies directed towards able-bodied persons of working age relying on a minimum income guarantee in 19 EU member states.
First, we argue that the active inclusion notion developed by the European Commission in its Recommendation on the active inclusion of persons excluded from the labour market provides a useful tool to categorize current activation strategies towards minimum income protection (MIP) recipients.
Consequently, we assess the empirical viability of active inclusion strategies in a fuzzy set ideal type analysis of purpose-collected institutional data. We find that there are only few countries where the activation discourse has remained a dead letter. Most countries implement policy measures that aim to discourage benefit dependency among MIP recipients.
Nevertheless, behind the realities of activation strategies towards MIP recipients seldom lies the notion of active inclusion as defined by the European Commission. Particularly, many countries focus predominantly on incentives to increase labour market participation rates of MIP recipients, rather than enabling measures.
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Getting onto the Path to Work
via ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC by Richard Exell
Getting onto the Path to Work (PDF 12pp) is a new TUC report by Christopher Schwartz. In it he looks at the international experience of job creation programmes, focusing on job guarantees. He concentrates on programmes in Denmark, Flanders and Wales, with briefer reviews of schemes in France and Finland.
One of his lessons is that countries that are accepted as having successfully used 'activation' strategies to tackle unemployment haven't relied on punitive measures, but instead have used a "cocktail of measures to facilitate access to employment."
The analysis and the recommendations are worth reading in full
Getting onto the Path to Work (PDF 12pp) is a new TUC report by Christopher Schwartz. In it he looks at the international experience of job creation programmes, focusing on job guarantees. He concentrates on programmes in Denmark, Flanders and Wales, with briefer reviews of schemes in France and Finland.
One of his lessons is that countries that are accepted as having successfully used 'activation' strategies to tackle unemployment haven't relied on punitive measures, but instead have used a "cocktail of measures to facilitate access to employment."
The analysis and the recommendations are worth reading in full
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