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Subsidised labour in Belgium and the Netherlands

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  • Jan De Schampheleire

    (Jan De Schampheleire is a researcher at the Centre for Technological, Economic and Social Change (TESA) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.)

  • Rik van Berkel

    (Rik van Berkel is a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and at the Centre for Social Policy Research of the municipality of Rotterdam.)

Abstract

In the 1980s and 1990s subsidised work has developed into a highly differentiated system involving both reductions in labour costs and integrated employment programmes operating in the private as well as the public sector. With the ‘activation’ concept becoming the key reference in both social and employment policy in the 1990s, employment programmes are also more sensitive to (at least the formal) profile of the jobseekers. The Netherlands, notably, are characterised by a comprehensive workfare approach. Although Belgium more typically has a mixture of mutually competing programmes, there is an equal pressure on the unemployed to engage in at least one of the employment programs. A more flexible view of activation should, however, also imply more possibilities for individual choice. Not everybody should be expected to be ready for the routine of full-time regular work. There seems to be at least some indications that policy is beginning to recognise this: the Netherlands are offering a few possibilities for voluntary work, while in Belgium some programmes allow for a combination of guidance, training and work.

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  • Jan De Schampheleire & Rik van Berkel, 2001. "Subsidised labour in Belgium and the Netherlands," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 7(1), pages 041-053, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:treure:v:7:y:2001:i:1:p:041-053
    DOI: 10.1177/102425890100700106
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