Objective
The research project aims at:
Developing a theoretical analysis supported by institutional indicators of the nature of transitional labour markets to facilitate social integration, the types of transition which occur under different institutional arrangements, and performance indicators on an aggregate level for social integration and exclusion.
The general approach would be to develop a socio-economic theory of institutional change and innovation supporting social integration and preventing social exclusion.
In this framework it is foreseen:
* To examine the transitions provided by flexible working time arrangements, in particular part-time work. Patterns of working time flexibility will be examined in relation to household structures, to understand how working time flexibility is related to changes in household composition and how this can prevent or encourage forms of social exclusion. Innovative methodological tools will be developed in order to allow for an integration of quantitative and qualitative methods. Cross national research will be developed to show how the mechanisms of social exclusion operate within the specific national institutional framework.
* To evaluate active labour market policies in terms of their capacities to prevent social exclusion (especially through work sharing and job rotation policies) and to support social integration (especially through training policies and intensive placement services). Special emphasis will be given to the implementation and organisation of policies. The theoretical aim is to lay down the foundations for a new political economy of labour market policy merging possibly in a productive way the paradigms of new public management.
* To establish why education and training systems fail to secure a sufficient level of basic skills and competences to prevent drop-out and inequality of access to education and training over some length of a person's educational and occupational trajectory. In other respects, success of re-integration policies for the unemployed and long-term inactive which emphasize skill acquisition and skill upgrading will be dealt with. In order to advance comparability of analyses, an explicit attempt will be made to combine the perspectives relating to the institutional and individual - level factors which determine the demand and supply of education and training.
The carrying out of the project will give rise to the bringing out of 4 publications:
- "Social Integration by Transitional Labour Markets Theory and Evidence".
- "Social Integration and Working Time: International Comparisons of Part-Time work".
- "New Pathways for Active Labour Market Policy".
- "Training and Human Capital Investment: Prevention and Cures for Social Exclusion".
A conference will be organized in November-December 1998 to present and discuss the chapters of these publications.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences political sciences political policies
- social sciences sociology social issues social inequalities
- social sciences economics and business business and management employment
- social sciences economics and business economics political economy
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10785 BERLIN
Germany
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