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

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Contracting-out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance -- References -- Chapter 1 Local Worlds of Marketization - Employment Policies in Germany, Italy and the UK Compared -- Introduction -- Activation Policies and Marketization -- Marketization as a new form of governing the provision of labour market services -- Research Design -- Market-based Interventions in Activation Policies in the UK, Germany and Italy -- UK -- Germany -- Italy -- Comparative Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Varieties of Market Competition in Public Employment Services - A Comparison of the Emergence and Evolution of the New System in Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium -- Introduction -- A Model for Explaining Policy Change -- The Origin of Market Competition in Australia and The Netherlands -- Australia -- The Netherlands -- The Evolution of Market Competition in Australia and The Netherlands -- Australia -- The Netherlands -- Explanation in Comparative Perspective: The Netherlands/Australia -- Explanation in Comparative Perspective: The Netherlands/Belgium -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not-for-profits Organizations - An Australian Study -- Introduction -- Method -- Employment Services Reform in Australia -- The Role of Boards of Directors -- Australian Not-for-Profit Boards' Response to Service Contracting -- The Challenges to Not-for-Profit Boards Posed by Competitive Tendering -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Quasi-markets and the Delivery of Activation - A Frontline Perspective -- Introduction -- The Marketized Provision of Activation Services -- Risk selection -- Monitoring -- Research Context.

Research Methods -- Research Findings -- Risk selection -- Monitoring providers and clients -- Conclusion and Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Conditionality and the Financing of Employment Services - Implications for the Social Divisions of Work and Welfare -- Introduction -- The Social Divisions of Work and Welfare -- The Financing of Contracted Employment Services -- The Effects of Conditionality of Funding in a Market of Employment Services -- Type of providers -- Type of services -- Targeting of unemployed groups -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Support for All in the UK Work Programme? Differential Payments, Same Old Problem -- Introduction -- The Path to the Work Programme: A Radical Departure from an Established Trend -- Creaming, Parking and Differential Payments in the Work Programme -- Data and Methods -- Differential Payments but Still Differential Outcomes: Rhetoric vs. Reality in the Work Programme -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Broken Hierarchies, Quasi-markets and Supported Networks - A Governance Experiment in the Second Tier of Germany's Public Employment Service -- Introduction -- Broken Hierarchies: The Structure and Governance of the German Public Employment Service before and after the Hartz Reforms -- The Federal Employment Agency -- Hartz reforms stage IV: the contested role of the municipalities -- A second tier of Public Employment Services with a complex governance structure -- Implications of the second-tier governance structure -- The Federal Programme Perspective 50plus in the Context of Labour Market and Pension Reforms -- Perspective 50plus in the context of organizational development in the new jobcentres -- Perspective 50plus in the context of demographic change and pension reform -- The gradual roll-out of the programme.

Funding mechanisms and negotiated targeting -- Networking at local and regional level -- Programme management -- Perspective 50plus as a Relatively Successful Programme: Some Stylized Results from the Evaluation -- Data -- Programme participants' characteristics -- Subjective responses of participants to the programme -- Employment and benefit outcomes -- The content of activation -- Cost-efficiency -- Explaining the Success of the Programme through the Features of its Governance -- Voluntary participation of jobcentres and bottom-up targeting -- Free choice and combination of treatments -- Free choice of using finance internally or externally -- Role of the project management agency -- Network Steering -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 The Public Accountability of Privatized Activation - The Case of Israel -- Introduction -- Public Accountability and Privatization -- Capturing Public Accountability in Privatized Forms of Service Delivery -- The Case Study: Activation in Israel -- Research Methodology -- Analyzing Contractors' Public Accountability -- Contractors' accountability to public agencies -- Accountability for public service values -- Accountability for results or for inputs and procedures? -- Accountability Reconstructed: The Public Accountability of Private Activation -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Index -- EULA.

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