Are activation policies converging in Europe?
Subtitle: the European employment strategy for young people
By: edited by Amparo Serrano Pascual.
Contributors: Serrano Pascual, Amparo.; European Trade Union Institute.; Europäische Gewerkschaftsinstitut in Brüssel.
Publisher: ETUI
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Brussels
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
Subjects: Youth -- Employment -- European Union countries -- Congresses.; Full employment policies -- European Union countries -- Congresses.; Social planning -- European Union countries -- Congresses.; European Union countries -- Social policy -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: European employment strategy for young people
Notes: "ETUI; EGI; ISE"--Cover.

"Contributions ... initially prepared for an international seminar on 'Activation policies for young people in comparative perspective ...,' organised by the ETUI and the Group ESC Toulouse  [in November] 2001"--P. v.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: label: Introduction / Amparo Serrano Pascual -- 1. Activation policies and welfare state: horizontal trends -- The EU’s concept of activation for young people: towards a new social contract? / Eduardo Crespo and Amparo Serrano Pascual -- Activation policies: a comparative perspective / Jean-Claude Barbier -- Trends in unemployment, employment policies, and the absorption of young people into employment / Mateo Alaluf -- The rhetoric of activation and its effects on the definition of the target groups of social integration policies / Jean-Michel Bonvin -- 2. Activation policies in comparative perspective -- Comparing youth activation policies in Denmark and the United Kingdom / Colin Lindsay, Mikkel Mailand -- The Danish experience of labour market policy and activation of the unemployed / Jens Lind, Iver Hornemann Møller -- Active young people in Europe: Denmark, Germany and the UK / Helge Albrechtsen -- Activation policies and employment norms: the situation in France compared with experiences in four European countries (Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, UK) / Florence Lefresne, Carole Tuchszirer -- Activation policies need careful policy design and monitoring : lessons from Canada and Germany / Janine Leschke, Isabelle Schömann, Klaus Schömann -- Activation in youth unemployment policy in Germany and Austria / Winfried Heidemann, Hermann Rademacker -- Activation strategies or the labour market imperative. An outline for a comparison of contemporary rationales and practices of social engineering in the UK, Sweden, France and Spain / Isabelle Darmon -- 3. Activation and social exclusion: case studies and policy lessons -- Long-term unemployment and the risk of social exclusion among young people: -- recommendations for activation policies / Thomas Kieselbach, Ute Traiser -- Good practice in activation at local level / Céline Lafoucrière, Jonathan Winterton -- Conclusion: towards convergence of European activation policies? / Amparo Serrano Pascual.