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

Informations projet

GAII

N° de convention de subvention: 841477

DOI

10.3030/841477

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 17 Avril 2019

Date de début 6 Janvier 2020

Date de fin 5 Janvier 2022

Financé au titre de

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coût total

€ 196 590,72

Contribution de l’UE

€ 196 590,72

Coordonné par

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND MAYNOOTH
Ireland

Description du projet

Faire la lumière sur l’impact des réformes des SPE en Irlande

L’architecture globale des services publics de l’emploi (SPE) irlandais a évolué du fait des récentes réformes. On ignore cependant l’impact précis de ces réformes sur la réinsertion des chômeurs de longue durée sur le marché du travail. Pour répondre à cette question, le projet GAII, financé par l’UE, réalisera une étude comparative des contrats des SPE en Irlande, qui comprendra des détachements intersectoriels. Les travaux du projet permettront d’élucider l’impact de la commercialisation sur la réintégration des groupes sociaux défavorisés sur le marché du travail et de fournir des réponses quant à la manière dont les réformes de la protection sociale ont contribué à la réalisation des stratégies clés.

Objectif

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.

Champ scientifique (EuroSciVoc)

• sciences sociales › économie et affaires › entreprise et gestion › emploi

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PROGRAMME PRINCIPAL
  
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
  

Thème(s)

• MSCA-IF-2018 - Individual Fellowships
  

Régime de financement

MSCA-IF-EF-RI - RI – Reintegration panel

Appel à propositions

H2020-MSCA-IF-2018

Coordinateur

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND MAYNOOTH

• Contribution nette de l'UE: € 196 590,72
• Adresse: CO KILDARE ; W23 Maynooth ; Irlande
• Région: Ireland › Eastern and Midland › Mid-East
• Type d’activité: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coût total: € 196 590,72