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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | European Journal of Social Security |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Pages (from-to) | 335-352 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| ISSN | 1388-2627 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2017 |
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A New Approach to Helping the Hard to Place Unemployed : The Promise of Developing New Knowledge in an Interactive and Collaborative Process . / Andersen, Niklas; Caswell, Dorte; Larsen, Flemming.
In: European Journal of Social Security, Vol. 19, No. 4, 01.12.2017, p. 335-352.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
TY - JOUR
T1 - A New Approach to Helping the Hard to Place Unemployed
T2 - The Promise of Developing New Knowledge in an Interactive and Collaborative Process
AU - Andersen, Niklas
AU - Caswell, Dorte
AU - Larsen, Flemming
PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - The reforms of the social and employment services that have swept across most of the developed world since the 1990s have enormously expanded the groups of citizens receiving active employment measures. Nevertheless, up until now, most countries have only seen limited results from enhancing the labour market participation of the most vulnerable groups. We argue that the goal of including a greater share of the harder-to-place unemployed in the labour market is not likely to be achieved through the tried and tested ways of developing knowledge, policy and practice. Rather, we propose a different approach to generating and exchanging the necessary knowledge for developing active employment policy and practice. As an alternative to the evidence-based knowledge paradigm, we set up a model for knowledge production that is made through co-operation between practice and research. This model investigates the potential for integrated services and for co-production by acknowledging the importance of the experiences of frontline professionals and clients in developing employment services
AB - The reforms of the social and employment services that have swept across most of the developed world since the 1990s have enormously expanded the groups of citizens receiving active employment measures. Nevertheless, up until now, most countries have only seen limited results from enhancing the labour market participation of the most vulnerable groups. We argue that the goal of including a greater share of the harder-to-place unemployed in the labour market is not likely to be achieved through the tried and tested ways of developing knowledge, policy and practice. Rather, we propose a different approach to generating and exchanging the necessary knowledge for developing active employment policy and practice. As an alternative to the evidence-based knowledge paradigm, we set up a model for knowledge production that is made through co-operation between practice and research. This model investigates the potential for integrated services and for co-production by acknowledging the importance of the experiences of frontline professionals and clients in developing employment services
KW - Employment services
KW - evidence-based practice
KW - innovation
KW - knowledge-production
KW - employment policies
U2 - 10.1177/1388262717745193
DO - 10.1177/1388262717745193
M3 - Journal article
VL - 19
SP - 335
EP - 352
JO - European Journal of Social Security
JF - European Journal of Social Security
SN - 1388-2627
IS - 4
ER -