Workshop
on Integrated Employment and Activation Policies in a
Multilevel Welfare System
Milan, August 30-31, 2012
Activating
employment policies have become a new paradigm for welfare and
work. Labour market policies have shifted towards the aim to
activate broader parts of society by facilitating the access
especially of women, younger and older people, migrants, young
mothers and unskilled and disabled people to the labour market.
While the activation paradigm has thus been established as
principal concept in labour market and employment policies, its
implications reach far beyond the labour market. The activation
paradigm implies also important challenges for related policy
fields (training and education, social security and assistance,
family and life course policy, health policy, migration,
integration and even housing policies). Especially in times of
crisis, employment-friendly reforms thus raise issues how
welfare states integrate and (re-)align the different policy
fields according to a coherent logic of activation.
Taking up the issue of integrated employment and activation
policies, this call invites contributions on the following
questions: How are coordination demands of integrated policies
handled in welfare states? What different forms of activation
policies are pursued in different countries and how far have
different strategies shaped other policy fields? What are the
governance mechanisms, reform paths, patterns of change and
conflict in related policy fields, when countries decide to
reform their employment systems? And finally, what are the
implications of integrated activation strategies in a
multi-level welfare system including European influences and
local implementation?
The workshop is organized in the framework of
the EU FP7-Project LOCALISE.
Deadline for applications: 15 May 2012
The call is available on: http://www.localise-research.eu/?page_id=9.
For further information, please contact Martin Heidenreich ([log in to unmask])