Nordic reforms to improve the labour market participation of vulnerable youth: An effective new approach?
Journal article, Peer reviewed
Accepted version
View/ Open
Date
2014Metadata
Show full item recordCollections
Original version
Halvorsen R, Hvinden B. Nordic reforms to improve the labour market participation of vulnerable youth: An effective new approach?. International Social Security Review. 2014;67(2):29-47 http://doi.org/10.1111/issr.12037Abstract
This article asks how the legitimacy (recognition or
misrecognition) of “ethnicity” and “disability” influences
public policies to promote the inclusion of young adults in the
Nordic labour markets. The article assesses the case for seeing
misrecognition and lack of accommodation as significant
factors behind troubled transitions from school to work, and
the case for regarding social regulation (or self-regulation) as
important ways of preventing, counteracting and correcting
exclusionary factors in the transition from school to work
among the two groups. The article argues that increased attention at the implementation stage of the policy process is necessary to be able to assess whether seemingly novel or innovative
regulatory policies and measures actually enhance equal
opportunities.