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Governing activation in Ireland: comparing Ireland's mixed-economy of public employment services

Projektbeschreibung

Wie haben sich die Reformen der öffentlichen Arbeitsverwaltungen in Irland ausgewirkt?

Die Strukturierung der öffentlichen Arbeitsverwaltungen (ÖAV) in Irland hat sich durch jüngste Reformen insgesamt verändert. Bisher ist jedoch noch nicht geklärt, wie diese Reformen sich auf die Wiedereingliederung von Langzeitarbeitlosen in den Arbeitsmarkt ausgewirkt haben. Um diese Frage zu beantworten, wird das EU-finanzierte Projekt GAII eine Vergleichsstudie zur Auftragsvergabe von ÖAV in Irland durchführen, die auch sektorübergreifende Entsendungen berücksichtigen wird. Die Arbeit des Projekts wird Aufschluss darüber geben, wie sich die Vermarktung auf die Wiedereingliederung von benachteiligten sozialen Gruppen in den Arbeitsmarkt ausgewirkt hat, und inwieweit Sozialreformen zur Umsetzung der Kernstrategien beigetragen haben.

Ziel

Public employment services (PES) are undergoing major reform in Ireland. Mandatory job search and other forms of conditionality are being extended to more and more people while the delivery of programmes targeted at the long-term unemployed are being privatised. These reforms have been actively promoted by the OECD and form a core plank of the Irish government’s strategy to achieve its employment targets under the Europe 2020 Strategy. Yet their impact on the labour market reintegration of long-term unemployed remains unclear due to the total absence of independent research on the contracting-out of activation services in Ireland. I am an experienced Irish researcher currently based within a high-profile research team at the University of Melbourne that has been studying the contracting-out of PES for nearly 20 years. This fellowship will enable me to return to Ireland to undertake the first sustained comparative study of PES contracting in Ireland, under the supervision of Dr Mary Murphy, one of the leading contributors to national debate on welfare reform in Ireland. It will be undertaken at Maynooth University (National University of Ireland) and include cross-sectoral secondments – with Department for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, the Irish Local Development Organisation (which represents Local Employment Services), and the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed - designed to maximise the project’s impact through rapidly integrating me into policy networks, advocacy and practitioner communities. In providing the first comparative study of contracted-out PES provision in Ireland, and the impact of marketization on the labour market re-integration of disadvantaged social groups, the fellowship will build understanding of how recent welfare reforms have contributed to the attainment of key National Strategic Policy objectives and wider European and UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Koordinator

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND MAYNOOTH
Netto-EU-Beitrag
€ 196 590,72
Adresse
CO KILDARE
W23 Maynooth
Irland

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Region
Ireland Eastern and Midland Mid-East
Aktivitätstyp
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Links
Gesamtkosten
€ 196 590,72