Author: Larsen, Flemming ; & Berkel, Rik van ; editors:
Title: The New Governance and Implementation of Labour Market Policies
Description: Copenhagen, DJØF Publishing, 2009. orig.wrappers. 24x15cm, 203 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Decentralisation & local flexibility in employment services; Redesigning the governance of employment politics - Decentralised centralisation in municipal jobcentres; Alternative styles & roles for local governments in implementing activation policies in Germany; Marketization of placement services as a double recommodification of labour; Bureaucracies under pressure? How Dutch local welfare agencies cope with policy and governance reforms; The politics & governance of Workfare in the U.S.; From right to obligation: The impact of collective and public regulation on the outplacement for redundant workers in Flanders; Working-life development based employment services: Is Finland heading for an alternative model?

Keywords: Labor Economics, Employment Policy, Comparative, Labour Market, Policies, , , ,