Long-term unemployment and the capability approach: The case of the German labor market

Artikel

This text focuses on long-term unemployment in the German labor market caused by insufficient work skills capabilities and discusses the deficits of the current policy in improving the situation of job seekers who are repeatedly rejected in their efforts to find a job. For both the German approach to this problem as well as for the European labor policy a neoliberal orientation is still the paradigm, complemented in part by social democratic ideas and labeled 'New Deal'. Distinct to the incoherent normative foundations of labor policy, the EU favors the normative base of the capability approach for measuring wealth and poverty. The capability approach (CA) provides a comprehensive, normative instrument for evaluation of individual welfare and social structures as well as a certain orientation of social policy. The text discusses the deficits of the current labor market policy and suggests the capability approach as a perspective for a new policy.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Management Revue ; ISSN: 1861-9916 ; Volume: 23 ; Year: 2012 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 140-157 ; Mering: Rainer Hampp Verlag

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Management ; Welfare Economics: General ; Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity ; Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination ; Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government ; National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Labor Economics Policies ; Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination ; Demand and Supply of Labor: General ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
• Subject: long-term unemployment ; capability approach ; employability ; labor policy

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Olejniczak, Michael
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Rainer Hampp Verlag
• (where): Mering
• (when): 2012

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1688/1861-9908_mrev_2012_02_Olejniczak
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/93046
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET