ISBN:
9781447367079
,
9781447367055
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (191 p.)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
331.137709415
Keywords:
Unemployed Services for
;
Unemployed Case studies Services for
;
Welfare recipients
;
Welfare & benefit systems
;
Social welfare & social services
;
Welfare economics
;
Chômeurs - Services - Irlande
;
Chômeurs - Services - Irlande - Études de cas
;
Aide sociale - Bénéficiaires - Irlande
;
Unemployed - Services for
;
Welfare recipients
;
Case studies
;
Ireland
Abstract:
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book assesses how the practice of contracting-out public employment services via competitive tendering and Payment-by-Results is transforming welfare-to-work in Ireland. It offers Ireland’s introduction of a welfare-to-work market as a case study that speaks to wider international debates in social and public policy about the role of market governance in intensifying the turn towards more regulatory and conditional welfare models on the ground. It draws on unprecedented access to, and extensive survey and interview research with, frontline employment services staff, combined with in-depth interviews with policy officials, organisational managers and jobseekers participating in activation
Note:
English
