Mediating the transitions to work: the role of employment and career advisers in comparative perspective

Isabelle Darmon (), Coralie Perez and Sharon Wright ()
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Isabelle Darmon: University of Manchester
Sharon Wright: University of Stirling

Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

Abstract: Labour market and career advice and guidance have received considerable recent research and policy attention and have been heralded as part of the new institutional resources required in reformed, active, welfare states. We seek to understand the meaning of such policy enthusiasm by proposing an analysis of guidance as a "governmental technology" particularly suited for new conceptions of social protection and mobilisation for work. We bring in the results of a three years comparative study of guidance services in France, Slovenia, Spain and the UK, particularly in the form of a cross-national typology. Our review of the conceptions of the user and of the governance mechanisms in place, from target related funding to "softer" staff monitoring, show how they combine to shape staff strategies and user conduct into a limited range of stereotypical attitudes, testifying to the dissemination of a norm of adaptation to the labour market

Keywords: Labour market and career guidance; activation; governmental technology; comparison; conduct (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I38 J08 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2010-02
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Working Paper: Mediating the transitions to work: the role of employment and career advisers in comparative perspective (2010)
Working Paper: Mediating the transitions to work: the role of employment and career advisers in comparative perspective (2010)
Working Paper: Mediating the transitions to work: the role of employment and career advisers in comparative perspective (2007)
Working Paper: Mediating the transitions to work: the role of employment and career advisers in comparative perspective (2007)
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