Learning to Make the Job Market Work: Capacity Building in Public Employment Agencies
Since a few decades ago, several governments in the world have often followed the prescriptions of so-called “active labor market policies as a way to improve job-related skills of the unemployed, their prospects to access the labor market, and the functioning of the labor market in general. While the effectiveness of these policies remains controversial, relatively little attention has been placed on how active labor market policies are implemented in public employment agencies. Drawing from a case of implementation of active labor market policies in southern Sardinia in 2001-2011, this paper provides an explanation of the development of organizational capabilities in sub-national public employment agencies. The study finds that policy design features, organizational status quo, and changing context conditions play an important role as explanatory factors for the path and outcome of the implementation of active labor market policies. On the whole, the research argument made in this paper suggests some qualifications of exiting generalizing arguments about the implementation of active labor market policies and, relatedly, on the decentralization of public services to sub-national agencies.
Active labor market policies policy implementation decentralization.
Alberto Asquer
Lecturer of Business Strategy and Policy Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche ed Aziendali Faculty of Economics University of Cagliari, Italy Viale Fra Ignazio 17 - 09123 Cagliari
国际会议
上海
英文
1-27
2012-05-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）