Outlook The future of activation

Activation policies increasingly go beyond reducing unemployment towards mobilising additional labour supply of inactive members of the labour force activation increasingly targets not only the unemployed and the recipients of welfare or social assistance, but also tackles benefit systems that used to be 

Furthermore, we observe increasingly convergent governance models based on management by objectives, contractual relationships and performance-based governments between levels of government but also between public and private entities 

Finally, there is growing awareness that activation is neither a panacea or a quick fix to inactivity and unemployment nor a measure to cut welfare state expenditure. 

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