Public employment services: mapping reform trends in advanced democracies

J. Timo Weishaupt

Chapter 25 in Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracies, 2023, pp 360-373 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Public Employment Services (PES) play a crucial role in national labour markets, yet comparative academic studies are rare. In this chapter, I offer an overview of the key reform trends in rich democracies in the last decades, including performance and quality management, efforts of administrative decentralization, the introduction of quasi-markets and public-private partnerships as well as recent shifts towards e-governance. The chapter also briefly assesses the impact of and reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapter closes with an assessment of PES’s future challenges and reform priorities.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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