Contracting-out Welfare Services

Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance

• Author(s): Siobhan O'Sullivan, Mark Considine,
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Pages: 184
• ISBN_10: 1119016495
  ISBN_13: 9781119016496
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:...

Contracting-out Welfare Services focuses on the design and overhaul of welfare-to-work systems around the world in the light of the radical re-design of the welfare system; internationally based authors utilise a national/program case study, considering employment services policy and activation practices.

• International contributors bring a global comparative perspective to the subject
• Contributors are all experts in their field, who also draw on a much longer intellectual legacy
• Uses employment services as a case study to advance understanding in relation to a host of broader principles and concepts
• Each paper included within the text uses a national/program case study, and each considers employment services policy in general, and activation practices in particular