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Additional authors

1. Freedland, M. R. (Mark Robert)

Description

1. xxii, 402 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "This book examines the developing legal regimes and regulation of public services in the UK and other European countries. Public services are examined though a case-study of the complex area of public employment services. These are job-placement and vocational training services which aim to maximize employment and minimize unemployment within EU Member States' Active Labour Marker policies. Employment services are at the centre of a complex web of rules in both hard and soft forms of law deriving from the EU, national public law, and from private, and at times contractual, agreements. They also lie at the crossroads of a series of trends in regulation, and priorities have been inspired by an array of conflicting policy rationales. These policy rationales include the establishment of an open and competitive European internal market, the establishment of an efficient welfare state, the scaling down of state administrative: machinery, the fulfilment of core public service responsibilities, and the creation of public-private partnerships. Public employment services provide a highly informative and novel case study of the interaction and conflict between the economic and social aims of the EU and between regulation at national and supranational levels, and the changing forms which this regulation has taken."--BOOK JACKET.

Series statement

1. Oxford studies in European law

Uniform title

1. Oxford studies in European law

Subject

1. Employment agencies > Law and legislation > Europe
2. Municipal services > Law and legislation > European Union countries
3. Job creation > Europe
4. Services publics
5. Réglementation
6. Services d'emploi
7. Protection sociale
8. Déréglementation
9. UE/CE Droit
10. UE/CE Etats membres
11. Employment agencies > Law and legislation
12. Job creation
13. Municipal services > Law and legislation
14. Werkgelegenheidsbeleid
15. Internationalisatie
16. Europees recht
17. employment service
18. institutional framework
19. Community law
20. labour legislation
21. harmonization
22. labour policy
23. job placement
24. vocational education
25. vocational training
26. unemployed
27. Arbetsmarknadspolitik > EU-länderna
28. Arbetsförmedling > EU-länderna
29. Sysselsättning > EU-länderna
30. service de l'emploi
31. cadre institutionnel
32. droit communautaire
33. législation du travail
34. harmonisation
35. politique du travail
36. placement
37. enseignement professionnel
38. formation professionnelle
39. chômeurs
40. servicio de empleo
41. organización institucional
42. derecho comunitario
43. legislación del trabajo
44. armonización
45. política laboral
46. colocación
47. enseñanza profesional
48. formación profesional
49. desempleados
50. Europe
51. European Union countries
52. EU countries
53. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
54. pays de l'UE
55. Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
56. países de la UE
57. Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte

Genre/Form

1. comment.
2. commentaire.
3. comentario.

Contents

1. I. Regulating Public Services in Europe -- 1. Competence, Social Policy, and Public Services -- 2. Conceptions of Public Service in European Law -- 3. Modes of Governance and Regulatory Techniques -- 4. Employment Services as a Public Service -- II. Employment Services: Activities, Functions, and Policies -- 5. Changing Institutional and Regulatory Frameworks for Job Intermediation -- 6. Active Labour Market Policies: Between 'Right to Work' and 'Workfare' -- 7. Vocational Education and Training of the Unemployed and Public Employment Services -- 8. Making Work Pay and 'Employment Friendly Wages' -- 9. The Relationship between Public Employment Services and the Unemployed -- 10. Conclusion

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-390) and index.