Welfare conditionality has become an idea of global significance in recent years. A 'hot
topic'in North America, Australia, and across Europe, it has been linked to austerity politics …

This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs)
depending on their objectives, relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, a crisis …

The differential performance of six Swedish active labour market programs for the
unemployed is investigated in terms of short-and long-term employment probability and un …

A New Youth? provides a cross-cultural perspective on the challenges and problems posed
by young people's transition to adulthood. The authors address questions such as: What are …

In this article we investigate the impact of quality systems on innovation performance using
the method of propensity matching. We use two French microeconomic surveys, the …

The New Deal for Young People was introduced throughout Great Britain in April 1998 as a
key element of the government's welfare-to-work strategy. Participants enter a period of …

The British New Deal for Young People began in January 1998. After 6 months of
unemployment, 18-24 year olds are mandated to enter aGateway'period where they are …

New Labour is constructing an “employment‐first” welfare state. It plans through Jobcentre
Plus to transform the passive culture of the benefit system by creating more explicit links …

Alongside the growth in overall employment and the steady rise in average real incomes
over the 1990s, the UK experienced a concentration of worklessness and low pay among …

The paper evaluates the differential performance of the six main types of Swedish
programmes that were available to adult unemployed workers entitled to unemployment …