Blanpain Employment Policies and Multilevel Governance

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-411-4659-5
Verlag: Wolters Kluwer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations Series

In Europe, work has long been a symbol of full citizenship and today
work is a fundamental goal of European social policy. However, although every
person has the ‘right’ to work, it is becoming clearer all the time that
unemployment is not due merely to a lack of encouragement to exercise this
right, but (at least in part) to some deeper defects in the implementation of
effective employment policies. As a contribution to defining the nature of
these problems this important collection of essays targets the phenomena of
multilevel governance, both vertical (European, national, regional, local) and
horizontal (administrative institutions, trade unions, business
representatives, NGOs), showing, with detailed analysis and data, how
coordination or conflict between the various levels advances, or fails to
advance, the goals of employment policy.

Regarding the EU, five EU Member States are examined– plus, for comparative
analysis, the parallel Canadian federal model – with the authors addressing
such concrete issues as:

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the impact of globalisation and Europeanisation on employment policies;

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distribution of tasks in the Open Method of Coordination (OMC);

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involvement of private and economic agents;

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the increasing significance of international political agents;

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flexicurity as an employment strategy;

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the difficulty of integrating the excluded;

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coordination with education and fiscal policies;

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social inclusion from the point of view of international human rights; and

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gender ‘mainstreaming’ as a weakening of the EU guarantee of gender equality.

The essays originated in a research meeting held at the Instituto
Internacional de Sociología Jurídica at Oñati (Spain) in June of 2007. Some of
the contributors, all employment law experts, discuss problematic aspects of
the European Employment Strategy (EES) and its influence on the
decentralization of employment policies and related elements of social
protection. Other authors concentrate on ‘built-in’ multilevel problems
resulting from existing constitutional and administrative structures, while a
third group focuses on substantive approaches to employment policies within
individual member states. The Bulletin contains updated versions of all
papers.

In this book the degree of administrative, legal, political, and cultural
intricacy involved in a serious engagement with multilevel governance of
employment on the European model is put on full view. As a deeply informed
analysis of how the idea of multilevel governance has played out within the
political and administrative reality of Member States, the book will prove of
enormous value to labour and employment law professionals anywhere, as the
problems identified here have a global reach.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blanpain, Roger

Weitere Mitwirkende

Landa, Juan Pablo

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht