Comparative Social Policy Analysis and Active Labour Market Policy: Putting Quality before Quantity

Clasen, Jochen; Clegg, Daniel O.; Goerne, Alexander

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“…Accordingly, this data can be used to provide insight into ALMP determinants and trends but does not provide further information such as benefit conditions and sanctions. We, like others, argue cost containment is only one element of analysis, and further dimensions should be explored (Clasen et al, , p.33).…”

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confidence: 81%

“…For instance, most postcrisis analyses of ALMP use the SOCX database for quantitative or mixed method analysis (Bengtsson et al, ; Bonoli, ; Huber & Stephens, ; Nelson, ). Although spending levels are a useful measure, as other authors have convincingly argued (Clasen, Clegg, & Goerne, , pp.24–26), there are significant limitations. As pointed out with LMP expenditures in the previous section, policy change can occur without large spending variance.…”

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A typology of activation incentives

Dinan

2018

Soc Policy Adm

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Activation has received an enormous amount of attention over the past decade and a half. Despite the immense academic interest, activation policies remain difficult to compare. This is notably because these policies can be adapted multiple ways and are not confined to one policy area. Furthermore, common activation indicators such as expenditures can be misleading as not all activation instruments affect spending levels. These limitations notwithstanding, states continue to create and adapt activation policies. With the objective of identifying and comparing second-order change, the author proposes a typology of activation policies according to how they affect target population behavior through incentives. The typology first identifies the lever to the labor market, supply, or demand.Second, it determines whether the mechanism for labor market integration is financial or human capital. In so doing, it allows for a more detailed understanding of the policy instruments adopted. This can be used as a tool in qualitative analysis to identify a change in policy instruments within and between cases.

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Section: Existing Measures and Classifications And Their Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 81%

Section: Existing Measures and Classifications And Their Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A typology of activation incentives

Dinan

2018

Soc Policy Adm

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“…At present there is huge uncertainty surrounding individual and aggregate programme effects. How ALMPs help or benefit particular constituencies of the population is not generally known, while cross-national comparisons are often compounded by institutional variations in programme design, meaning it is often difficult to generalize from one context to another (Clasen et al, 2016). 5 Targeted job subsidies may, for instance, lead to additional job creation, or they might equally crowd out unsubsidized work through substitution effects.…”

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Uses and misuses of evaluation in social policy

Deeming¹

2017

Handbook of Social Policy Evaluation

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The Strathprints institutional repository (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk) is a digital archive of University of Strathclyde research outputs. It has been developed to disseminate open access research outputs, expose data about those outputs, and enable the management and persistent access to Strathclyde's intellectual output. Uses and misuses of evaluation in social policy Christopher Deeming We can achieve a sort of control under which the controlled, though they are following a code much more scrupulously than was ever the case under the old system, nevertheless feel free. They are doing what they want to do, not what they are forced to do. That's the source of the tremendous power of positive reinforcementthere's no restraint and no revolt. By careful cultural design, we control not the final behaviour, but the inclination to behavethe motives, desires, the wishes.

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“…More specifically, we investigate how institutional structures of national labour markets with various degrees of ALMP training programme effort affect differences in learning attitudes of individuals. This study follows the call of Clasen, Clegg, and Goerne (2016) for increased use of disaggregated data for ALMP indicators at the macro-level. The common practice in comparative research is to view ALMPs as a single policy type.…”

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Active labour market policy as a socialising agent: a cross-national analysis of learning attitudes

Benda

Koster

Veen

2018

Studies in Continuing Education

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Most active labour market policy (ALMP) research investigates potential socioeconomic consequences such as unemployment risks and earning potential but too often neglects potential cultural effects. When approaching ALMP research based on institutional and socialisation theory, researchers would expect that people internalise cultural and normative elements from their institutional environment. This study discusses the influence of country-level ALMP training programme effort on the learning attitude of people by considering participants own educational and familial background. Only ALMP training programme effort is studied because this type of programme is directly aimed at active learning. This study presents an analysis of macro-level data from the OECD on labour market policy spending combined with micro-level data from the PIAAC, totalling 64,150 observations from 19 countries. The results show that people who have higher education credentials or have more highly educated parents have on average a more proactive learning attitude. These differences tend to be smaller in countries that put more effort in ALMP training programmes. People with less education or who have lesser educated parents tend to have a more proactive learning attitude in countries that put more effort in ALMP training programmes compared to their equals in countries that put in less effort. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Comparative Social Policy Analysis and Active Labour Market Policy: Putting Quality before Quantity

Cited by 39 publications

References 54 publications

A typology of activation incentives

A typology of activation incentives

Uses and misuses of evaluation in social policy

Active labour market policy as a socialising agent: a cross-national analysis of learning attitudes

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