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Activation in Public Employment Services in Europe
2023Abstract Since the dawn of the New Public Management and labor market activation paradigms, public employment services (PES) have been in a state of perpetual reform. This chapter not only identifies key modernization trends in three pioneering PES in Europe, including Denmark, Germany, and the United Kingdom, but also critically ...
Weishaupt, J. Timo +2 more
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Employer orientation in the German public employment service
Critical Social Policy, 2015Through the introduction of welfare states and social policy, owners of labour power acquired alternatives to the permanent sale of their labour. Entitlements to social security created the conditions for a strategic temporary withholding of labour. Based on qualitative data, this article presents empirical evidence of trends towards recommodification ...
Sowa, Frank +2 more
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Employment Services as a Public Service
2007AbstractThis chapter provides a historical and comparative examination of employment services in the light of their ‘public service’ nature and vocation as developed through the 20th century. It also provides a reasoned taxonomy of the various activities and functions performed by public employment services in Europe, and in particular of job ...
Mark Freedland +3 more
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Employment insecurity in the public services
2000Job security, until recently, has been seen as a defining characteristic of traditional public sector employment, and the ‘risk-averse’, time-serving bureaucrat is a common, negative stereotype of the public sector worker. As the restructuring of the public sector has gathered pace over the last twenty years, however, the security of employees has come
Edmund Heery +2 more
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Employment service: Public or private?
Public Choice, 1996This paper deals with the relative performance of private and public employment services. For this purpose, two behavioral models are developed which take into account that private and and public employment agents not only pursue different aims but also face different restrictions, in particular since a public employment agency lacks the right to ...
Peter Zweifel, Christoph Zaborowski
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The Politics of Investment and Employability in the Public Employment Service
2017This chapter introduces the historical and legal development of public employment service and its institutions in Switzerland, most importantly the Regional Employment Offices (REO), the official institution in charge of job seekers. In this context, it discusses labour market measures (LMM), which are the main instrument of the REO’s activation policy
Mi-Cha Flubacher +2 more
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Stepping Stones to Permanent Employment in the Public Service
LABOUR, 2004Abstract. Labour force transitions are investigated using a longitudinal database covering staff movements in the Queensland public service. The database covers those who have entered the public service through traditional recruitment methods as well as those who have entered through temporary and casual appointments.
Tunny, G., Mangan, J. E.
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Public Employment Services : Functions and Innovations [PDF]
, 2003 Public Employment Services (PES) in industrialized countries have traditionally provided job-brokering services - arranging for jobseekers to obtain jobs and employers to fill vacancies. Increasingly, they
Dar, Amit
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Public Employment and Service Law
2017Abstract This chapter examines relevant provisions of the Indian Constitution with respect to public employment and service law. In particular, it considers the Indian Constitution’s regulation of civil servants and the constitutional controversies surrounding the often-competing ideals of bureaucratic independence and bureaucratic ...
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THE PROBABILITY OF PLACEMENT BY THE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
Review of Policy Research, 1984In a typical year, the United States Employment Service places over 4 million persons from among 16 million applicants. This investigation of which applicants are most likely to be placed shows that placement occurs in two labor market segments, corresponding roughly to the primary and secondary labor markets described in the economic literature.
STEVEN M. DIRECTOR +2 more
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