UID:
almafu_9959328858502883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781119016472
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1119016479
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9781119016465
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1119016460
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1119016495
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9781119016496
Series Statement:
Broadening perspectives on social policy
Uniform Title:
Social policy & administration.
Content:
"Contracting-out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance is an edited collection focused on the design and re-design of welfare-to-work systems around the world"--
Note:
"Originally published as Volume 48, Issue 2 of Social Policy & Administration."
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Cover; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; List of Contributors; Introduction; References; 1 Local Worlds of Marketization -- Employment Policies in Germany, Italy and the UK Compared; Introduction; Activation Policies and Marketization; Research Design; Market-based Interventions in Activation Policies in the UK, Germany and Italy; Comparative Discussion; Conclusion; References; 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.
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A Model for Explaining Policy ChangeThe Origin of Market Competition in Australia and The Netherlands; The Evolution of Market Competition in Australia and The Netherlands; Explanation in Comparative Perspective: The Netherlands/Australia; Explanation in Comparative Perspective: The Netherlands/Belgium; Conclusion; References; Acknowledgements; 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.
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Australian Not-for-Profit Boards' Response to Service ContractingThe Challenges to Not-for-Profit Boards Posed by Competitive Tendering; Conclusion; References; 4 Quasi-markets and the Delivery of Activation -- A Frontline Perspective; Introduction; The Marketized Provision of Activation Services; Research Context; Research Methods; Research Findings; Conclusion and Discussion; References; Acknowledgements; 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.
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The Financing of Contracted Employment ServicesThe Effects of Conditionality of Funding in a Market of Employment Services; Conclusion; References; 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; References; Acknowledgements.
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7 Broken Hierarchies, Quasi-markets and Supported Networks -- A Governance Experiment in the Second Tier of Germany's Public Employment ServiceIntroduction; Broken Hierarchies: The Structure and Governance of the German Public Employment Service before and after the Hartz Reforms; The Federal Programme Perspective 50plus in the Context of Labour Market and Pension Reforms; Perspective 50plus as a Relatively Successful Programme: Some Stylized Results from the Evaluation; Explaining the Success of the Programme through the Features of its Governance; Discussion; Conclusion; References.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Contracting-out welfare services. Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Madlen, MA : John Wiley & Sons, 2015 ISBN 9781119016496
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119016458
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119016458
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119016458
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