Welfare-to-work or activation policies refer to programmes aimed at promoting the employability, labour-market and social participation of benefit recipients of

Welfare-to-work or activation policies refer to programmes aimed at promoting the employability, labour-market and social participation of benefit recipients of

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

A central goal of European activation policies is to provide coherent and actively inclusive employment and social services. This book offers new insights on th

During the last decade, many European countries introduced extensive reforms to the way that income protection and activation programmes for the unemployed are