Motivating the unemployed: A full‐range model of motivational strategies that caseworkers use to activate clients

Grandia, Jolien; Grouw, Yvonne La; Kruyen, Peter M.

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“…A study by Focacci and Lam (2020) showed that young adults are very susceptible to their peers when it comes to deciding whether to participate in an employment programme. This is an important practical implication, as frontline workers can have numerous effective interventions at their disposal, but when no one participates in them, youth unemployment will remain an issue (e.g., Grandia, La Grouw, & Kruyen, 2019).…”

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Towards a more all‐inclusive evaluation of interventions for unemployed youth: A longitudinal investigation of participant, programme, relational and contextual factors

Wesseling

2021

Soc Policy Adm

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Youth unemployment has severe and long-lasting consequences. Despite the abundance of programmes that aim to integrate unemployed youth into the labour market, little is known about what factors have an impact on ensuring a durable labour market transition. This study reports on an employment programme for high-educated, unemployed young adults. The effect of participant, programme, relational and contextual factors on employment success was examined in a longitudinal study among 1,306 young adults. Twelve months after the programme, 1,069 participants were employed. Participant and relational factors increased the likelihood of employment success, while the effect of programme factors was mixed. Contextual factors decreased the likelihood of employment quality. The prediction of employment status and quality was based on a different combination of factors, which underscores the importance of investigating both, especially in a highly educated sample. More insight into the role, the four primary determinants play in finding employment can help improve employment interventions. Several courses of action are presented.

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Towards a more all‐inclusive evaluation of interventions for unemployed youth: A longitudinal investigation of participant, programme, relational and contextual factors

Wesseling

2021

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“…While timely investment in health, human capital and skills may be effective way to avoid discouragement among older workers, these strategies are costly and often employed too late, when the older individual is already unemployed. An alternative approach, to avoid discouragement, is to strengthen the link between caseworkers and unemployed (e.g., Grandia, La Grouw, & Kruyen, 2020).…”

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Job search, transition to employment and discouragement among older unemployed welfare recipients in Germany

Nivorozhkin

2020

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This paper quantifies the importance of active job search for the probability of re‐employment, estimates the share of older job seekers that become discouraged and explore factors that may lead to discouragement. We use the sample of older unemployed welfare benefit recipients in Germany covered by the Panel Study “Labour Market and Social Security” (PASS). We find that employment transition rates are low for older job seekers: only around 11% found a job within a year. Participation in job search is an important but not a decisive factor for the transition to employment, other variables such education levels and health status are as important for the probability to transit to employment. Furthermore, more than 29.4% of individuals that did not find employment gave up the job search. We argue that a large share of these group of unemployed could be classified as discouraged. The job centre caseworkers' strategies specifically aimed at helping older job seekers to develop a new perspective in the labour market are likely to increase their probability of continuing to search for work.

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“…In the field of sustainable public procurement, Norwegian legal scholars Sjåfjell and Wiesbrock (2016, 2020) and Dutch legal scholars Grandia et al (2014; Grandia, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020) are the most active authors. Publishing primarily in the journal of Sustainability and Journal of Cleaner Production , the sustainable public procurement literature has focussed on the production of goods.…”

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Public procurement – price-taker or market-shaper?

Hamilton

2022

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Purpose This paper examines the role of government procurement as a social policy mechanism within a multilateral open trading system. Government regulations globally are being transformed to foster more responsible business conduct in multinational enterprises (MNEs). Yet, concern that sustainability may present a discriminatory barrier to trade has stalled the progress of sustainable public procurement (SPP) at the international level, raising questions regarding the role and scope of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) to align taxpayer-funded contracts with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals. Design/methodology/approach With a focus on social sustainability, this paper reviews the grey and academic literature to assess the changing landscape of public procurement policy and supply chain legislation in high-income countries. Findings Frontrunner nations are adopting a mandatory approach to sustainable public procurement and due diligence legislation is elevating supply chain risk from reputational damage to legal liability. While technological innovation and the clean, green production of manufactured goods dominates the sustainable public procurement literature, the social aspects of sustainability poverty, inequality and human rights remain underrepresented. Research limitations/implications The scope of this paper is limited to the examination of government procurement covered by the WTO-GPA (2012). Smaller value contracts, under the WTO-GPA thresholds and the category of defence are beyond the scope of the paper. Social implications The paper focusses on the underserved topic of social sustainability in business-to-government (B2G) – business to government – supply chains arguing that for responsible business conduct to become a competitive advantage, it must be more meaningfully rewarded on the demand-side of all taxpayer-funded contracts in organisation for economic co-operation and development countries. The paper introduces the idea of priceless procurement as a mechanism to build system capacity in the evaluation of non-financial sustainability objectives. Originality/value To build the capacity to stimulate competition based on social and environmental policy objectives, the paper introduces the concept of priceless procurement in B2G contracts.

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Motivating the unemployed: A full‐range model of motivational strategies that caseworkers use to activate clients

Cited by 11 publications

References 44 publications

Towards a more all‐inclusive evaluation of interventions for unemployed youth: A longitudinal investigation of participant, programme, relational and contextual factors

Towards a more all‐inclusive evaluation of interventions for unemployed youth: A longitudinal investigation of participant, programme, relational and contextual factors

Job search, transition to employment and discouragement among older unemployed welfare recipients in Germany

Public procurement – price-taker or market-shaper?

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