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OECD, EU, and active labor market policy
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By
Klaus Armingeon
University of Berne
Political Science
Klaus.## email not listed ##
February 2005
First draft
Paper prepared for the ISA-Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2005
Abstract
The paper deals with the impact of OECD and EU on national active labor market
policies in 22 established democracies of the OECD-country group. Both OECD and EU arestrong proponents of activation measures. However, OECD has no systematic impact on activelabor market spending whilst EU does. A common European Employment Strategy does notmean better employment policies, though. The EU has contributed to an expansion of nationalspending on active labor market policies, but their effects are not very much different fromthose of non-EU countries and EU countries before the inauguration of the EuropeanEmployment strategy. This corresponds to an argument that international expert organizationssuch as OECD are able to develop coherent and potentially effective policies but are not verysuccessful in implementing these policies. In contrast, supranational political organizationssuch as the EU may influence national policy makers. These national politicians have to takeinto account requirements of the national political process in addition to the ideas and goalsdisseminated by the EU. Hence policy development at the level of policy formation and policyimplementation reflects both domestic and supranational political interests. This makesnational strategies in labor market policies to a mix of goals, often far away from the goalswhich originally and officially have been set on the supranational level.
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I am grateful to David Grubb and John Martin (OECD Paris) for giving some background information on
OECD’s Jobs Strategy and to Philipp Leimgruber, Patrick Emmenegger and Daniela Heiniger for support.
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C:\cygwininstall\home\root\archive\docs\$ASQ2005-02-18_isa_proceeding_58866.docLast printed 3/4/2005 4:07 PMLast saved by
armingeon
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OECD, EU, and active labor market policy
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By
Klaus Armingeon
University of Berne
Political Science
Klaus.## email not listed ##
February 2005
First draft
Paper prepared for the ISA-Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2005
Abstract
The paper deals with the impact of OECD and EU on national active labor market
policies in 22 established democracies of the OECD-country group. Both OECD and EU are
strong proponents of activation measures. However, OECD has no systematic impact on active
labor market spending whilst EU does. A common European Employment Strategy does not
mean better employment policies, though. The EU has contributed to an expansion of national
spending on active labor market policies, but their effects are not very much different from
those of non-EU countries and EU countries before the inauguration of the European
Employment strategy. This corresponds to an argument that international expert organizations
such as OECD are able to develop coherent and potentially effective policies but are not very
successful in implementing these policies. In contrast, supranational political organizations
such as the EU may influence national policy makers. These national politicians have to take
into account requirements of the national political process in addition to the ideas and goals
disseminated by the EU. Hence policy development at the level of policy formation and policy
implementation reflects both domestic and supranational political interests. This makes
national strategies in labor market policies to a mix of goals, often far away from the goals
which originally and officially have been set on the supranational level.
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I am grateful to David Grubb and John Martin (OECD Paris) for giving some background information on
OECD’s Jobs Strategy and to Philipp Leimgruber, Patrick Emmenegger and Daniela Heiniger for support.
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