What difference does it make? The outcome effects of the European employment strategy on the transition from education to work.

Autor/in	Brzinsky-Fay, Christian
Titel	What difference does it make? The outcome effects of the European employment strategy on the transition from education to work. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Was macht den Unterschied aus? Die Erfolgswirkung der Europäischen Beschäftigungsstrategie auf den Übergang von Ausbildung zu Arbeit.
Quelle	In: German policy studies, 7 (2011) 1, S. 45-72 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1523-9764
Schlagwörter	Methode; Jugendpolitik; Erfolgskontrolle; Übergang Schule - Beruf; Europapolitik; Erwerbsquote; Berufsausbildung; Arbeitslosenquote; Arbeitsmarkt; Arbeitsmarktforschung; Übergang Ausbildung - Beruf; Jugendarbeitslosigkeit; Aktionsplan; Koordination; Europäische Union; Jugendlicher; Junger Erwachsener; Belgien; Deutschland; Dänemark; Finnland; Frankreich; Griechenland; Großbritannien; Irland; Italien; Luxemburg; Niederlande; Portugal; Schweden; Österreich
Abstract	"This article aims at assessing the effects of the EES on youth labour market outcomes in the EU-15 countries within the recent decade. With the European Employment Strategy, which was established in 1998, and the Lisbon objectives in education and training, which came into force in 2000, the European Union among other topics started focussing on young people and their chances in entering and succeeding the labour market. The political instrument for the implementation was the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), which aims at taking into account different complex institutional frameworks while formulating common targets that have to be reached using different policies. The analysis of the effects looks at both the output (i.e. the implementation of youth employment policies) and at the outcome dimension (i.e. youth labour market indicators). Within the field of school-to-work transitions, like in other fields of social and employment policy, effects of the EES on the policy making process can be observed, while the effect on the outcome dimension - that is the relative youth unemployment and the employment rate among 15 to 24 years old people - hardly can be detected: Regarding the youth policies that were set up by the national governments, it can be shown that youth labour markets and their institutional frameworks between countries differ in the same way as the effects of the EES and the policies, and so do the outcomes. However, some general trends can be observed. The switch from employment to education issues might be one reason for the lack of empirical success regarding youth labour market indicators. The concentration on education issues has overshadowed the youth labour market policies, which appears in the non-development of such policies as well as in the lack of any empirical outcome effects. Finally, the main result is that, for the EU-15 countries, the assumption that the EES has affected policy making processes could be supported. Furthermore, the degree of effectiveness with respect to the policy making process depends on the degree of pre-existing compliance between the EES and national employment policy. In other words, those countries, which were very much in line with the targets of the EES beforehand, showed little compliance regarding the formulation of youth policies. Surprisingly enough, out of this group of countries, Denmark, Sweden and the United Kingdom show worsening outcome indicators, despite the fact that all of them launched youth programmes. In countries with low compliance beforehand, the outcome indicators also show no significant improvement. In a nutshell, the induction of active youth labour market policies through the EES shows indeed effects on the output dimension, but hardly on the outcome level." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku). Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: Evaluation; anwendungsorientiert; Querschnitt; empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 2000 bis 2008.
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2012/1