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Contracting-out the Public Employment Service and the consequence for hard-to-place jobseekers: Experiences from Australia, the Netherlands and the UK

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"(...) The contracting-out of public employment services is an international trend. At the moment, only Australia and the Netherlands have gone the full way towards contracting-out all reintegration services. The United Kingdom has not chosen such a radical change but implemented Employment Zones in some of the most deprived areas, in which private providers are contracted to take care of long-term unemployed. This paper compares the contracting-out experiences in Australia, the Netherlands and the UK Employment Zones. (...) The paper is organised as follows. The next section will give a short overview over the institutional set-up in the three countries. The governance mechanisms, in particular the role of monetary incentives will be discussed in section 3. Section 4 will discuss the services delivered by private providers and the work practices of the providers. In section 5, we will present first quantitative evidence on the performance of private providers. The paper will conclude with some general remarks on the use of private provider for the delivery of reintegration Services. (...)"

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Titel:
Contracting-out the Public Employment Service and the consequence for hard-to-place jobseekers: Experiences from Australia, the Netherlands and the UK
Autor_in:
Bruttel, Oliver
Gruppe/n:
Sonstiges
Erscheinungsjahr:
2004
Anmerkungen:
Vortrag gehalten auf der Second Annual ESPAnet Conference University of Oxford, 9 - 11 September 2004

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