Broken Hierarchies, Quasi‐markets and Supported Networks – A Governance Experiment in the Second Tier of <scp>G</scp>ermany's Public Employment Service

Knuth, Matthias

doi:10.1111/spol.12059

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“…Even after many years, the economic and financial benefits of contractual forms of PPPs are still unclear and subject to debate (Hodge, Greve, & Biygautane, ; Mouraviev & Kakabadse, ). This has been illustrated for quasi‐markets in PES in Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Italy (Bredgaard & Larsen, ; Knuth, ; Van der Aa & Van Berkel, ; Van Gestel, ; Zimmermann et al, ). Over recent decades, the high expectations regarding quasi‐markets in job finding for disadvantaged welfare recipients have not been fulfilled (Bredgaard & Larsen, ; Van der Aa & Van Berkel, ), and the development of innovative methods to serve the needs of disadvantaged jobseekers continues to lag behind (Kluve, ; Reynaers, ; Struyven, ; Van Gestel, ).…”

Section: Theoretical Background: Quasi‐markets and Public–private Netmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…Although “the need for collective dialogue and deliberation between co‐producers rather than purely transactional forms of co‐production” (Needham, , p. 221) therefore seems beyond doubt (Knuth, ; Voorberg, Bekkers, & Tummers, ), public–private networks do not represent an easy solution to the problems of quasi‐markets (Kort et al, ). Ingold and Stuart () have highlighted the “two faces” of employers' engagement, where the first face is the role of employer, and the second face is the work undertaken to engage employers.…”

Section: Theoretical Background: Quasi‐markets and Public–private Netmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Examples can be found in Denmark and Britain (Ingold & Stuart, ; Martin, ), New Zealand (Spoonley, ), France (Rieucau & Salognon, ), Australia (Van Kooy et al, ), and the Netherlands (Van der Aa & Van Berkel, ). In particular, the “municipalisation” of PES (Knuth & Larsen, , p. 175), with growing responsibilities for the local state in ALMP, has promoted the engagement of employers in network collaboration within PES (Van der Aa & Van Berkel, ; Knuth, ).…”

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From quasi‐markets to public–private networks: Employers' engagement in public employment services

2018

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This article explores the implications of creating a role for private-sector partners in public employment services (PES), rather than creating quasi-markets. It focuses on how the engagement of employers in public-private networks with local government can enhance employment opportunities for disadvantaged welfare recipients but may require a further shift in local public services. The theory relates to contractual arrangements versus network modes of publicprivate partnerships. Based on surveys among employers and welfare recipients, and interviews with politicians, managers, and frontline workers in five Dutch municipalities, the article provides detailed evidence on innovative and promising cases of public-private networks in employment services. It shows that, under certain conditions, vulnerable jobseekers are better served by a network involving employers than by the standard supply-driven approach that predominates in quasi-markets. It also reveals that public and private partners have yet to fully embrace the implications of the network approach for their respective roles. The article contributes to the theoretical debate on public-private partnerships in the context of PES, reflecting on public-private networks as a policy design that could help improve employment opportunities for disadvantaged jobseekers. ---This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Section: Theoretical Background: Quasi‐markets and Public–private Netmentioning

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From quasi‐markets to public–private networks: Employers' engagement in public employment services

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“…; Cutler and Waine ). Indeed, personalization through markets has been called the cornerstone of modernization of public services and is at the heart of reforms of major health and welfare structures in industrialized countries, including unemployment assistance in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands (Knuth ; Van Berkel ), and the National Health Service in the UK (Williams and Dickinson ; Gadsby ). Most recently, this approach has become central to the biggest Australian policy reform in a generation – the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).…”

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The Vexed Question of Market Stewardship in the Public Sector: Examining Equity and the Social Contract through the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme

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Personalized care and market-based approaches to public service provision have gained prominence in a range of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. Australia has recently joined this trend, launching a complex and expansive programme of individualized care funding for disability through the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Public sector markets (i.e. where governments either directly fund a market by way of competitive tendering, or through personal budgets) have been embraced by actors at different points of the political spectrum and for a range of reasons, including efficacy and efficiency gains, empowerment of citizens and efforts to cater for diversity. Despite the growing dominance of public sector markets and individualized funding, many questions about the role and responsibility of governments in managing and regulating these markets remain unanswered. In this article we outline different roles governments might assume in the creation and management of public sector markets, based on the types of risks governments are willing to take responsibility for. We argue that to fulfil the social contract between government and citizens, governments need to ensure that markets are properly stewarded and embedded in broader social safety nets. This, we contend, can ensure citizens receive the gains of market models while being protected from market failures or market-produced inequities.

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“…They focused on the effects of the structure and counselling activities of PES on the job search task, together with the individual characteristics of jobseekers and the local economic environment. Recently, Knuth () offered an interesting analysis regarding the transformation of labour market policies and, consequently, of the PES in Germany over the last decade. Focusing on a specific programme (Perspective 50plus) and delving into the reasons for its success, Knuth () did not identify “any fabulous instrument” but rather found a combination of different factors, including the availability of more staff in the jobcentre's frontline and the governance of the programme based on the voluntary participation of the jobcentres.…”

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The spatial structure of the labour market across public jobcentres. Does their accessibility matter?

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The objective is to analyse how one's place of residence affects the probability of finding a job and to measure the definition of the public jobcentre catchment area, which contributes to improving labour outcomes in the most deprived areas. We propose a multilevel model to estimate the probability of finding a job controlling for individual characteristics and discerning the effect of the place of residence and the contribution of public employment centres. We use an administrative register of jobseekers (70,379) grouped by 384 postal codes and 24 jobcentres. The econometric results confirm the hypothesis that there is a strong residence effect that is not sufficiently mitigated by public employment services.

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Broken Hierarchies, Quasi‐markets and Supported Networks – A Governance Experiment in the Second Tier of Germany's Public Employment Service

Cited by 19 publications

References 27 publications

From quasi‐markets to public–private networks: Employers' engagement in public employment services

From quasi‐markets to public–private networks: Employers' engagement in public employment services

The Vexed Question of Market Stewardship in the Public Sector: Examining Equity and the Social Contract through the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme

The spatial structure of the labour market across public jobcentres. Does their accessibility matter?

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