Can Quasi‐market and Multi‐level Governance Co‐exist? Insights from the Case of Lombardy's Employment Services System

Trivellato, Benedetta; Bassoli, Matteo; Catalano, Serida L.

doi:10.1111/spol.12176

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“…The TH spheres of the TH keep the same names, but the level and the players are no longer the same. Moreover, because of the multilevel governance, each sphere may contain several layers of representatives, each with its own set of interactors (Trivellato et al, 2017). New actors such as the ITSs arrive, while others, like the unions, lose relevance.…”

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Why Triple Helix governance is useful to dual apprenticeship systems

Coletti

2019

Industry and Higher Education

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Apprenticeship is a contractual form of work-based learning that has existed for centuries, but despite its historical impact on innovation and competitiveness, it has been perceived as a system for the shop floor or low-skill jobs. The dual apprenticeship system combines school study with training on the job. Well developed in several European countries it can lead to highly qualified jobs, so attracting the interest of universities and other higher education institutions. Academic, business and government stakeholders working together enact a Triple Helix (TH) framework. This article analyses how the TH is suitable for the governance of apprenticeship systems and discusses the implications of the model.

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Section: Discussion and Findingsmentioning

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Why Triple Helix governance is useful to dual apprenticeship systems

Coletti

2019

Industry and Higher Education

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“…Diop-Christensen, 2015;Ahmad et al, 2019). Others have concentrated on the performance of particular activation schemes, such as the Norwegian qualification programme (Ohls, 2017) or on regional approaches, such as in Lombardy (Trivellato et al, 2017). All of the above publications revolved around labour market integration as key evaluative criterion.…”

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“…Some have focused on labour market outcomes for particular groups, such as young unemployed people (Grimmer and Hobbins, 2014), lone parents (Millar and Crosse, 2018) or particular aspects of activation, such as benefit sanctions (for example, Ahmad et al, 2019; Diop-Christensen, 2015). Others have concentrated on the performance of particular activation schemes, such as the Norwegian qualification programme (Ohls, 2017) or on regional approaches, such as in Lombardy (Trivellato et al, 2017).…”

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Activation: a thematic and conceptual review

Clasen

Mascaro

2022

Journal of European Social Policy

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Activation as a social policy topic has been investigated since the late 1990s and continues to be popular in academic analysis and discourse. In this review, we highlight the wide range of research aims and themes covered within relevant publications. We also identify a considerable degree of conceptual inconsistency and ambiguity across the literature. Informed by methodological considerations, we conclude by suggesting a parsimonious root concept of activation which would allow for a more consistent and less ambiguous application within and across different levels of analysis.

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“…Additionally, for this reason, various studies have focussed their attention on the Lombard employment services and the dote system. Most analysed these systems at a macro level, outlining their main features and their weak points (Trivellato et al, 2015). Sabatinelli and Villa (2015), for instance, highlighted some paradoxes of the Lombardy region's dote system in terms of real opportunities of freedom of choice for the recipients of the endowment system, individualisation of interventions and governance.…”

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Activation policies in action

Coletto

Guglielmi

2018

IJSSP

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the process that occurs within public employment offices (PEOs) and its consequences for unemployed people. Specifically, it analysed some practices needed to implement activation programmes developed in some PEO in Lombardy (Italy) and the role of front-line officers, promoting a dialogue between the literature on activation policies on one hand and the literature on street-level bureaucracy on the other. Design/methodology/approach The fieldwork has been conducted in Lombardy, which is one of most economically developed areas both in Italy and in Europe. The empirical research integrated quantitative and qualitative research tools; specifically a CATI survey of 994 persons; participant and non-participant observations, semi-structured interviews, and an analysis of documents in four PEOs. Findings The paper describes and analyses both practices needed to implement activation programmes and the perceptions of the social actors (unemployed people and front-line officers) who build and address these practices daily. Specifically, the attention is focussed on the different forms of discretion used by PEOs’ front-line officers and a mix of technical, relational and psychological support received in the PEOs. Moreover, the authors noticed that the front-line officers’ discretion seemed to be more limited in those parts of the activation process in which it should be more relevant, that is, the identification of training courses aimed at increasing unemployed workers’ skills. Notwithstanding these limits, many users expressed positive opinions of these courses, which could be explained by secondary functions of training courses. Research limitations/implications The qualitative portion of the fieldwork has limited generalisability because it focussed on few PEOs. Practical implications The findings are relevant to policy makers who deal with activation policies and to public and private organisations that implement those policies. Originality/value Many studies have analysed the implementation of the welfare-to-work model that has oriented the reforms of labour market activation policies in most countries, focussing on the more tangible outcomes (essentially their efficacy in terms of re-employment rates). A growing stream of recent literature has begun to place more attention on the non-economic consequences of activation programmes, focussing mainly on countries with quite a long tradition of activation policies while remaining scant in countries where the implementation of activation programmes is still fragmented and more recent (like Italy). This paper aims to begin filling this gap by improving the knowledge on some non-economic consequences of activation programmes, focussing on user-officer relations and on daily practices in PEOs.

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Can Quasi‐market and Multi‐level Governance Co‐exist? Insights from the Case of Lombardy's Employment Services System

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

Why Triple Helix governance is useful to dual apprenticeship systems

Why Triple Helix governance is useful to dual apprenticeship systems

Activation: a thematic and conceptual review

Activation policies in action

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