Organizing transitions in response to restructuring: study on instruments and schemes of job and professional transition and re-conversion at national, sectoral or regional level in the EU

Already before the global financial crisis the dynamics of restructuring has resulted in a growing variety of both national and European activities supplementing as well as improving 'traditional' public employment policies by more suitable instruments focusing in particular on the employability of workers and/or the effectiveness of re-conversion and re-deployment as a recent stocktaking of different instruments and tools prepared by DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities has shown. Also flexicurity as a guiding principle of European and national labour market policy reforms has contributed to change in employment policies and public employment services in many European countries. This study is focusing on schemes, instruments and mechanisms of support for redundant workers and for workers likely to be affected by restructuring which have been set up in parallel to and complementing the typical support mechanisms of public employment services (PES).

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