Unemployment
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't Groene Sticht: opportunities for long-term unemployed - Utrecht, the Netherlands
31 Dec 2003The foundation Stichting "’t Groene Sticht" set up a project in the former office complex of the municipality of Utrecht, with the purpose of providing new opportunities for the long-term unemployed.
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'Work Works' final evaluation report - UK
01 Oct 2006An evaluation of the Work Works programme which ran in six of the metropolitan areas where the largest number of lone parents live and which aimed to raise the numbers of lone parents who choose to work or to join the New Deal for Lone Parents.
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Aanzet (Initiative) in Den Bosch
18 May 2006The project links the talents of the participants with prospects for work projects. In this way, Aanzet has developed into a place for self-help groups, therapeutic work and social activation.
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ACEVO Report - Youth unemployment, the crisis we cannot afford
18 Mar 2013The United Kingdom has a structural youth unemployment problem. The current economic crisis in the UK is, for a large part, driven by low levels of demand for young people’s labour. However, even before the crisis began, somewhere between 7 to 9 percent of all young people were already heading for long-term unemployment. Current numbers show that over 1 in 5 of all young people in the UK are currently not in education, employment or training (NEET).
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Collaborative care provision
06 Feb 2006The aim of the project is to create the conditions in which young people can reach the most achievable and suitable educational qualifications and position in the labour market.
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Combatting youth unemployment
01 Mar 2006Many local authorities want to combat local youth unemployment but often do not know how go about this. Therefore, the Youth Unemployment Task Force published the brochure '8 bright ideas for combating youth unemployment'. The brochure is intended as an inspiration for local authorities in dealing with youth unemployment.
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Compensation of regional unemployment in housing markets
01 Feb 2006In this paper the hypothesis that regional unemployment is compensated in housing markets is investigated. This research shows that clearing of land markets may undo the incentive for workers to migrate to low unemployment regions in general equilibrium.
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De Koppeling Amersfoort: stimulating social activity enhances the quality of life within the district
23 May 2006Kruiskamp/Koppel is a district in the city of Amersfoort with many gallery flats, anonymous open spaces, few welfare provisions and a great diversity in terms of residents. There are many social problems, long-term unemployment is relatively high, there is a great deal of unemployment among immigrants, there are many specials needs students in the schools and the perceived level of unsafety within the district is high.
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Delfshaven practical training centre - Rotterdam, the Netherlands
31 Dec 2006The Delfshaven district is home to an estimated 3,385 young people aged between 14 and 23 without a basic qualification for the labour market. A large proportion of these young people left education more than 1½ years ago. On 1October 2003 1,175 young people were registered as unemployed, of which a large proportion had no qualifications. It should be noted that a substantial proportion of young people do not register anywhere. The actual number of unemployed young people without a basic qualification can therefore assumed to be higher. The Delfshaven practical training centre will help give young people a better position in the labour market.
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Der Würfel, socio-economic enterprise - AU
28 Nov 2007Der Würfel is a socio-economic enterprise and offers services in the field of renovation work in apartments, transports, help in vacating apartments, second-hand-trade (textiles, furniture).
Socio-political objectives are:
- offering fixed-term employment for one year for long-term unemployed men andwomen from 19 to 45 years of age;
- thus giving the possibility of regular work in various fields;
- to offer vocational orientation and supervision,
- to help the target groups to manage personal problems which impeded regular work so far;
- to offer the possibility of qualification in the fields of retail trade (apprenticeship and final exam) for women and in painting trade (for women andmen).
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Does City Structure Affect the Labour Market Outcomes of Black Workers?
01 Nov 2003The paper discusses spatial mismatch and its affects on unemployment of black workers in the USA.
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Educational Push - Deventer, the Netherlands
01 Oct 2004Deventer wants to increase the job opportunities of vulnerable groups through an integrated plan that focuses on educating these groups up to the level of a basic qualification.
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Elblag, Poland - Bristol Case Study
31 Dec 2015The post-1989 transition in Poland subjected the city of Elblag to a high level of socio-economic trauma. This resulted in high levels of unemployment and social exclusion, as a well as an increasing tendency for young people to migrate to larger cities elsewhere in Poland.
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Employment Service Desk - Venlo
18 Jul 2006As a result of decentralisation, part of the Venlo social services' tasks has been transferred to the Employment Service Desk. The Employment Service Desk is located in North Venlo, a national urban policy district. It is part of the district information centre, which has been located in the neighbourhood for some time.
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Employment strategies in Newham and Hull NDCs - UK
07 Mar 2006Investigates the approach adopted in Newham and Hull New Deal for Communities (NDCs) to the development of their strategies for addressing worklessness and assessing the effectiveness of these strategies.
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Evaluation of the Working Neighbourhoods Pilot: final report
03 Jul 2007This report presents the findings from the evaluation of the Working Neighbourhoods Pilot (WNP), established in 2004 to test new approaches to offering intensive support to help people find and remain in work.
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Fortuna project in Turku
31 Dec 2006The Fortuna project offers career planning services to its customers in their own residential areas in Eastern Turku.
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From job hunter to employee, 's-Hertogenbosch
07 Jul 2006Since March 2002 's-Hertogenbosch has employed a new approach to applicants for a social security benefits. A more intensive supervision of applicants and an increase in the rate of their return to work should reduce the number of benefit applications and the number of beneficiaries. This is the main objective.
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Groningen@work tackles youth unemployment
01 Sep 2005Actively seeking employment and working if you want social assistance benefits. The Social Affairs and Work Service in the City of Groningen started using this approach to youth unemployment in April 2004. Young people aged from 18 to 23 years applying for social assistance benefits must participate in the Groningen at Work (G at W) project.
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High unemployment among ethnic minorities
17 Jan 2006Using the most recent statistics, this publication by the Social and Cultural Planning Office highlights the high unemployment rate among Turks, Moroccans, Surinamers and Antilleans and the fact that this has increased substantially during recent years. The position of immigrant youths in particular is a cause for concern. These results call for a more intensive training and labour market policy on ethnic minorities. This publication contains proposals with regard to this.
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Immigration and integration in the European Union
21 Sep 2004The EU member states are faced with the problem of steering immigration and integration in the right direction.
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Impacts of the Job Retention and Rehabilitation Pilot - UK
01 Apr 2006Provides an evaluation of the Job Retention and Rehabilitation Pilot (JRRP), which explored the effectiveness of three alternative interventions aimed at increasing the return-to-work rate of those off work sick for six weeks or more.
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Jigsaw North Liverpool
04 Sep 2007Case Study Information – Liverpool Housing Trust
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Larissa Employment Promotion Centre – Larissa, GR
11 Sep 2006Problems encountered by Employment Service’s in coping with changes in the labour market led the Greek National Employment Agency (OAED) to develop a new approach for dealing with unemployment.
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Less unemployment among 'oldcomers' - Hoorn, The Netherlands
13 Mar 2006Unemployed 'oldcomers' (older immigrants) are finding work faster thanks to a unique collaboration between a local authority and the business community.
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Majakka-Beacon Project
31 Dec 2005Resource-oriented case management and supported employment for immigrants.
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Nine good practices on active inclusion in Europe
05 Sep 2008In October 2007 the European Commission issued a communication on the 'activeinclusion of people furthest from the labour market', which reflected theincreasing emphasis of Commission and the European Parliament on social policyat a European level. For national governments and local authorities to deliversuccessful policies in this field, it is important to learn from each other.This booklet, created by the City of The Hague and Nicis Institute, gives anoverview of nine European good practices on active inclusion. The good practicesare explained and illustrated in a uniform way, so that it is possible to makecomparisons between the different projects. The booklet shows that EU MemberStates, local governments and stakeholders have developed many creative ways toactivate those people furthest removed from the labour market.
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Old Ghettos, New Centralities
31 Dec 2006The project’s grant will be used to contribute to the sustainable development of Rabo de Peixe and Alagoas.
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Organisation of authorities - business community - Leiden, the Netherlands
01 May 2005In collaboration with the regional authorities, Leiden is forging a link between the government and the business community, to help the long-term unemployed to find jobs more quickly and more often.
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Refugees Into Jobs (RIJ), United Kingdom
22 Mar 2006Set up in 1997, Refugees into Jobs helps refugees and asylum seekers in two boroughs of London to find jobs, by offering them better access to training and employment opportunities. It represents an integrated, client-based approach, providing training, voluntary work experience placement, and assistance with job search.
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Restart Bureau Social Activation increases prospects on the labour market - Amsterdam, the Netherlands
31 Dec 2005Organisations working in the area of social activation are setting up activation plans for people with few job prospects. The starting point is to maintain or obtain a place in society, which in due course can improve a person’s prospects on the labour market. The restart bureau supports these organisations in improving their operational management.
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Route 23 combats juvenile unemployment - Dordrecht, the Netherlands
07 Dec 2005In April 2004 the project Route 23 was started in Dordrecht with the objective of combating juvenile unemployment.
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Social exclusion in Finland
24 Sep 2005Social exclusion in Finnish urban regions: area differences and effects of the social environment in the 1990’s
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Solidarcité - Brussels, Belgium
21 Mar 2006Solidarcité provides a 'social year' for young people between the ages of seventeen and twenty-five who suffer both economic and social exclusion. During that time the young people are helped back towards the regular labour market through volunteer work, training courses and placements.
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Stimulating Social Activation - Helmond Actief
22 May 2006Stimulating social activation within the "toughest-case" category of unemployed citizens in the Helmond inner-city district Binnenstad-Oost. The case manager supports the clients in realising their individual wants and needs in terms of social participation. It is an individual approach that works.
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Tempo Project in Turku
31 Dec 2006The primary aim of this project is finding new job opportunities for unemployed in the SMS of the Turku region.
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Testing the impact of dedicated employment support in London and Newcastle
03 Jul 2007This report looks at the impact of a pilot programme which provided dedicated employment support and a guaranteed financial incentive to homeless young people who took up a job.
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The conditionality of the substitution thesis on type of urban economy
05 Nov 2009As many advanced economies have seen the immigrant share in their populations rise in recent decades, many studies have been devoted to assessments of the validity of the so-called substitution thesis. This article tries to build on two sets of research findings that suggest that the impact of immigration on wages is conditional on the type of urban economy. More specifically, it tries to answer the question whether the negative impact of immigration on the unemployment level of the lower educated is weakest in the most service-centered urban economies indeed.
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The Link (Linkki) – Co-ordination Project for Development of East Turku
31 Dec 2006East Turku Co-ordination Project Linkki co-ordinates The Objective 2 Urban development work in East Turku. The motto is: a good program is more than the outcome of the projects included.
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The second-chance school in Marseille
24 Oct 2005Training young people in order to guide them towards work.
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Understanding and tackling worklessness: Lessons and policy implications Evidence from the New Deal for Communities Programme
17 Feb 2010The New Deal for Communities (NDC) Programme is one of the most important Area-Based Initiatives (ABIs) ever launched in England. Its primary purpose is to reduce the gaps between some 39 deprived NDC neighbourhoods and the rest of the country. In these areas, each on average accommodating about 9,800 people, NDC Partnerships are implementing approved 10 year Delivery Plans. The Programme is designed to improve outcomes in relation to: three ‘place-based’ issues: crime, the community, and housing and the physical environment. And three ‘people- based’ considerations: education, health, and worklessness.
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Work for Antillean and Aruban men - The Netherlands
13 Mar 2006Project workers must both literally and metaphorically speak the same language as the men. They must employ their own ingenuity and persistence to help solve problems step by step, and they have to give their help on safe ground: in the neighbourhood where most Antillean and Aruban men live.
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Worklessness in deprived neighbourhoods: a review of evidence - UK
01 Jun 2006A review of the available evidence relating to the problem of high levels of worklessness in deprived neighbourhoods, and the effectiveness of policy interventions to address the problem.
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Youth unemployment - Sénart, France
22 Mar 2006From young unemployed to young business people - stimulating entrepreneurship among the young unemployed in Sénart, France.