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Beleid en Maatschappij
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Van de redactie |
Vooruitkijken naar de toekomst |
Auteurs | Myrte Hoekstra |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Artikel |
Inleiding themanummer: experimenteren met re-integratieWerk voor iedereen: illusie of reëel perspectief? |
Auteurs | Fabian Dekker en Paul de Beer |
Auteursinformatie |
Artikel |
Lessen uit het Amsterdamse experiment met de bijstand |
Trefwoorden | Experiment, Social assistance, Activation, Social participation, Amsterdam |
Auteurs | Paul de Beer en Sandra Bos |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In the period 2018-2021 the municipality of Amsterdam conducted an experiment with beneficiaries of social assistance. Benefit recipients could voluntarily participate in the experiment. They were randomly assigned to three experimental conditions, viz. ‘extra attention’ (in which they received more frequent counseling and support), ‘self-direction’ (which offered the participants the freedom to make their own choices), and the ‘comparison group’ (the control group which received the customary treatment). Under all three conditions, participants who worked part-time could earn up to €200 a month on top of their social assistance benefit. A little over 800 participants (of the 5,000 in total) were followed closely by researchers of the Amsterdam University of Applied Science (HvA) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Although the participants who got ‘extra attention’ did not significantly flow out more frequently from the social assistance system than participants in the other two conditions, they did more often have a part-time job at the end of the experiment. There were no significant differences between the conditions with respect to participation in other non-paid activities, such as voluntary work and informal care. In-depth interviews with a selection of the participants showed, among other outcomes, that they considered the financial uncertainty as a main hindrance for doing (more) part-time work. |
Artikel |
Experimenteren met basisbanen in Groningen en Rotterdam |
Trefwoorden | basic jobs, active labour market policy, structural unemployment, job guarantee |
Auteurs | Kees Mosselman, Fabian Dekker en Elisa de Vleeschouwer |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
This article examines the experiences of Dutch municipalities with the so called ‘basic job’. Basic jobs are primarily meant for individuals lacking realistic prospects on the mainstream labour market. These jobs should provide good work on a permanent basis. In both Groningen and Rotterdam, the basic job is used to improve the labour market perspectives of long-term job seekers. These are still relatively small interventions, which show that the basic job contributes to an improvement in the participants’ chances of work, their health and well-being. At the same time, it’s a costly experiment, in which the municipalities are net contributors and scalability only seems possible through the introduction of a national room for experimentation with accompanying monitor research and by adopting a broader perspective on economic growth. Only then, a more definitive judgment can be made about the viability of the basic job. |
Artikel |
Technologie voor mensen met afstand tot de arbeidsmarktToepassingen van een mensgerichte aanpak |
Trefwoorden | human-centered design, inclusive technology, impaired workers, cognitive support, Augmented Reality |
Auteurs | Michiel de Looze, Kim Kranenborg en Ellen Wilschut |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
New ict and robots in the workplace may raise productivity but can have negative effects on people. A human-centered approach and human-centered technology may prevent negative outcomes. In the present article, this is outlined for the diverse and vulnerable group of ‘people with distance to the labour market’. |
Artikel |
Skills als basis voor een nieuwe (re-)integratiepraktijk |
Trefwoorden | Return to work, Skills, sustainable careers, lifelong learning, Employability |
Auteurs | Jos Sanders, Jouke Post, Joost van Genabeek e.a. |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Substantial and continuous shifts in skills demands urge us to rethink education, labour market and reintegration policies and practices. In this article, we argue for a more skills based approach to (re)integration. This skills based (re)integration practice is based more on up-to-date, complete and validated skills sets of candidates, than on diplomas and other, more or less, outdated and incomplete proxies to one’s current skills. Such a new reintegration practice seems feasible if the actual and complete skills set of an individual becomes the starting point for both matching, guidance and (up/re)skilling efforts. Intersectoral mobility, alternative career pathways and suitable training and development routes can be designed on a more fine-grained skills basis, with occupations considered more as dynamic sets of tasks requiring specific skills. This new (re)integration practice presupposes a common skills language, which is being developed in the Netherlands, Competent NL. Sectoral and intersectoral experiments with skills instruments using this language, such as skills passports, are conducted to optimize their quality and effectiveness. Since first experiments with skills instruments seem promising, we argue that more room for experiment is required. So that integration in the labor market can be sustained and reintegration practices can be prevented. |
Dossier |
Introductie: het paradoxale van samenwerking als sturingsvorm |
Auteurs | Yvonne La Grouw en Mark van Ostaijen |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors discuss recent research findings that are of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Dossier |
Paradoxaal sturen: conflict en democratie in duurzame stedelijke regio’s |
Auteurs | Tamara Metze |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors discuss recent research findings that are of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Dossier |
De ‘praktijk’ van het sturen: geen paradox, maar een oxymoron |
Auteurs | Duco Bannink |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors discuss recent research findings that are of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Dossier |
Omgaan met paradoxen in sector-overschrijdende samenwerkingOp zoek naar de balans tussen resultaat en ‘baggerwerk’ |
Auteurs | Iteke van Hille |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors discuss recent research findings that are of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Boekensignalement |
Oproep tot verzet tegen uitbuiting en uitputting door betaald werk |
Auteurs | Patricia van Echtelt |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors review recently published books on subjects of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
De blinde vlek |
De open deur van de armoedebestrijding |
Auteurs | Mirjam Pool |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
The most relevant part of a discussion is not what is discussed but what cannot be spoken of. The real taboos are those for which it is taboo to call them taboos. The status quo defines itself as non-ideological while denouncing any challenge to itself as radical. Therefore the column De blinde vlek frames the framers, politicizes the status quo and articulates what is not heard of. |