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Beskæftigelsespolitikken er blevet storpolitik. Forventningerne er høje. Ligeledes er dilemmaerne for at nå afbalancerede og robuste løsninger.

Hovedtemaet i denne bog er, om beskæftigelsespolitik kan levere og leve op til de høje forventninger. Kan flere og bedre job til alle skabes uden stigende ulighed? Kan mere fleksible arbejdsmarkeder skabes og samtidig bevare - eller endda forbedre - jobbet og tryghed i ansættelsen af arbejdstagere? Kan private udbydere levere bedre og billigere tjenester end den tidligere offentlige arbejdsformidling, og hvad er konsekvenserne af disse nye kvasi-markeder for arbejdsformidlingen? Er livslang læring og den vidensbaserede økonomi løsningen i en tidsalder med globalisering og outsourcing af lavtuddannede og lavtlønnede job? Vil nationale regeringer - og ikke mindst Den Europæiske Union - indfri sine løfter?

Indholdsoversigt

Chapter 1. Introduction by Thomas Bredgaard & Flemming Larsen

PART 1. THE EUROPEAN EMPLOYMENT STRATEGY AND ACTIVATION POLICIES
Chapter 2. The European Employment Strategy up for Revision - Effective Policy or European Cosmetics? - by Henning Jørgensen

Chapter 3. Research on 'Open Methods of Coordination' and National Social Policies: What Sociological Theories and Methods? - by Jean-Claude Barbier

Chapter 4. Mutual Learning Processes of the European Employment Strategy: Theoretical Approaches and Methodologies - by Peter Nedergaard

Chapter 5. Activating Germany - by Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer

Chapter 6. Active Labour Market Policy in Denmark as an example of Transitional Labour Market and Flexicurity arrangements - What can be Learnt? - by Flemming Larsen

Chapter 7. The Involvement of Social Partners in Active Labour Market Policy - do the Patterns fit Expectations from Regimes Therories? - by Mikkel Mailand

PART 2. CONTRACTING OUT EMPOYMENT SERVICES
Chapter 8. Contracting out of Public Employment Systems from a Governance Perspective - by Els Sol

Chapter 9. The New Institutional Logic of Public Employment Services - by Ludo Struyven

Chapter 10. Steering, Efficiency and Partnership: The Australian Quasi-market for Public Employment Services - by Mark Considine

Chapter 11. Contracting out the Public Employment Service in Denmark: A quasi-market anlysis - by Thomas Bredgaard, Flemming Larsen & Lars Rune Møller

Chapter 12. 'Contracting Out' and Contestability: Modernising the British Public Employment Service - by Dan Finn

PART 3. EMPLOYMENT POLICY FROM A FLEXICURITY PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 13. Striking a Balance? Flexibility and Security in European Labour Markets - by Ton Wilthagen

Chapter 14. The Danish Road to 'Flexicurity' Where are we? And how did we get there? - by Per Kongshøj Madsen

Chapter 15. Flexicurity in the Policies for the Older Workers - by Frank Tros

Chapter 16. Flexicurity and Older Workers on the Danish Labour Market - by Thomas Bredgaard & Flemming Larsen

Chapter 17. Flexicurity and Collective Agreements in Denmark in a Microeconomic Perspective - by Flemming Ibsen

Chapter 18. Towards a Gender Impact Analysis of Flexicurity - by Maria Jepsen

Chapter 19. Of Movers and Makers: Flexibility and Security for Workers in the Value Added Logistics Industry - by Martijn van Velzen

Chapter 20. Temporary Work Agencies and Labour Market Policy - by Ola Bergström

PART 4. LIFELONG LEARNING TO PROMOTE EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING LIFE
Chapter 21. Labour Market Training, Lifelong Learning Policy, and Transitional Labour Markets - by Lorenz Lassnigg

Chapter 22. Learning to be Realistic: Some Limitations of Lifelong Learning in Employment Policy - by Andrew Watt

Chapter 23. European Social Dialogue on Lifelong Learning - by Peter Kerckhofs

Chapter 24. Stimulating Continuing Vocational Training in the Netherlands - by H. van Lieshout, P. Kamphuis, F. Jellema & T. Wilthagen

Chapter 25. Training in Networks and Trade Union Influence - a Danish Case Study - by Morten Lassen, John Houman Sørensen & Anja Lindkvist V. Jørgensen

Chapter 26. Innovation and Job Creation in the Learning Economy - by Peter Nielsen & Bengt-Åke Lundvall

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