Withdrawal from the public employment service by young unemployed: a matter of non-take-up or of non-compliance? How non-profit social work initiatives may inspire public services

Abstract

Withdrawal from the public employment service by young unemployed: a matter of non-take-up or of non-compliance? How nonprofit social work initiatives may inspire public services

Applicability of IPS principles to job inclusion of vulnerable youth

“…The descriptions of the needs and situation of vulnerable youth from these Norwegian pilots echoes findings from a large body of research literature from other European countries and the U.S. (Johansson & Höjer, 2012;Mascherini et al, 2012;Noble-Carr et al, 2015;Osgood, Foster, & Courtney, 2010;Van Parys & Struyven, 2012;Xie, Sen, & Foster, 2014). I believe that the findings can thereby also be relevant to vulnerable youth in other countries than Norway.…”

“…This is particularly relevant for under age youth, but also for NEETs in general (Van Parys & Struyven, 2012). This challenge places heavy demands on competence, service flexibility, and efforts by support givers to reach out to troubled youth, as well as on their ability to motivate and meet youth needs.…”

Assessing youth labour market services: Young people’s perceptions and evaluations of service delivery in Germany

“…Across Europe, one of the main challenges of bringing NEETs and the young unemployed into employment has to do with their underuse of activation programmes. Van Parys and Struyven (2013: 465) refer to challenges at both the individual and organization (i.e., PES) level as “two side of the same coin”. For example, understaffed PES, too high of caseloads for individual counsellors, and a lack of autonomy to tailor offerings to fit young people’s individual needs are among the challenges at the organizational level.…”

“…But while much attention has been placed on the EU’s role in combatting youth unemployment and the implementation of the Youth Guarantees in the Member States, far less attention has been given to the evaluations and experiences of the target group of services offered by PES – namely, the young people themselves. In other words, in addition to the design and organization of youth labour market services, we should also examine young people’s perceptions of the services they use, as they are closely linked to a variety of behaviours such as non-compliance, early withdrawal or non-take-up, all of which can hinder the (re-)entry to the labour market (Van Parys and Struyven, 2013). How young people evaluate their interactions with employment services can even have impacts on societal and political attitudes (Andrews and Jilke, 2016).…”

The Promise and Deception of Participation in Welfare Services for Unemployed Young People

“…However, the role of NGOs working with young unemployed people turns out to be more significant than the role of public agencies. It seems that NGO practitioners have more control of their work, less hierarchies, stronger loyalty, and a clearer ethical commitment to the interests of their service users than practitioners in public services do (van Parys & Struyven, 2013). On the evidence of our research, NGOs definitely provide a clear enabling factor for participatory citizenship.…”