Activation: a research topic in its own right?

Jochen Clasen and Clara Mascaró

Chapter 4 in Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracies, 2023, pp 44-53 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: While research on active labour market policies on the one hand, and unemployment protection on the other, go back a long way, academic analyses of activation are less than three decades old. Nevertheless, the topic has become a key area of social policy-oriented research on labour markets. The chapter discusses the origins of activation in international academic debate, before reviewing the diverse aims pursued within seminal publications. It reflects on ways in which the topic has been conceptualised in research, and concludes with a plea for more consistency in academic exchange based on the use of a mid-range concept of activation.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781800880887.00010 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:20451_4

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().