Modification of the Official Goals and Functions of Public and Social Policy by Actors at the Local Level: The Case of a Selected Active Labour Market Cover Image

Změna oficiálních cílů a funkcí veřejné a sociální politiky aktéry na lokální úrovni:příklad vybraného opatření aktivní politiky zaměstnanosti v ČR
Modification of the Official Goals and Functions of Public and Social Policy by Actors at the Local Level: The Case of a Selected Active Labour Market

Author(s): Pavel Horák, Markéta Horáková
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Individual Action Plan; active labour market policy; European employment strategy; service model of public employment services; official goals; operational goals; policy modification; implementation deficit; implementation gap; bureaucracy; professionalis

Summary/Abstract: The Individual Action Plan (IAP) is an Active Labour Market Policy measure that should be used by local public employment service offices. It is an active and preventive tool targeted at the young and long-term unemployed. In this paper we focus on identifying both its officially prescribed goals at the supranational and national level and on its real operational goals at the local level in the case of the Czech Republic. Identically to other EU states, we observe a high level of goal modification (i.e. regional policy discretion) in the Czech Republic. The results of the research are: (1) a typology of IAP’s operational (and related individual access) goals (2) the observation that the IAP in the Czech Republic is modified due to a particular bureaucratic and professional approach.

  • Issue Year: XII/2005
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 259-283
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Czech