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The marketization of employment services : the dilemmas of Europe's work-first welfare states

By: Greer, Ian
Title By: Breidahl, Karen N | Knuth, Matthias | Larsen, Flemming, 1966-
Material type: BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2017.Description: 198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780198785446; 0198785445Subject(s): Employment agencies -- Europe | Government purchasing | Labor market -- Europe | Employment agencies | Government purchasing | Labor marketDDC classification: 330 GR MA Online resources: Location Map
Summary:
What is marketization, and what are its effects? This book uses employment services in Denmark, Germany, and Great Britain as a window to explore the rise of market mechanisms. Based on more than 100 interviews with funders, managers, front-line workers, and others, the authors discuss the internal workings of these markets and the organizations that provide the services. This book gives readers new tools to analyse market competition and its effects. It provides a new conceptualization of the markets themselves, the dilemmas and tradeoffs that they generate, and the differing services and workplaces that result. It is aimed at students and researchers in the applied fields of social policy, public administration, and employment relations and has important implications for comparative political economy and welfare states.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-187) and index.

What is marketization, and what are its effects? This book uses employment services in Denmark, Germany, and Great Britain as a window to explore the rise of market mechanisms. Based on more than 100 interviews with funders, managers, front-line workers, and others, the authors discuss the internal workings of these markets and the organizations that provide the services. This book gives readers new tools to analyse market competition and its effects. It provides a new conceptualization of the markets themselves, the dilemmas and tradeoffs that they generate, and the differing services and workplaces that result. It is aimed at students and researchers in the applied fields of social policy, public administration, and employment relations and has important implications for comparative political economy and welfare states.

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