Welfare Policy Integration Issues
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What purposes should social and labor market policy serve in increasingly interrelated economic systems? And do current arrangements serve them well in the European framework? This paper reviews the relevant issues focusing in particular on assignment of decision power at different levels of governance, and on theoretically clear and empirically apparent sources of incoherent and ineffective policy structures. It discusses proposals of citizenship-based or “delayed integration” welfare systems as a way to enhance cross-border labor market flexibility. It concludes that reform efforts should be better focused on reappraisal and modernization of social responsibilities at all levels of governance in the European Union’s economic system.
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