出版社：Suntory Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines
摘要：Welfare to work policy is central to British reforms of its
welfare state and social security system. We are not alone
in our desire to assist unemployed and other claimants to
find and retain work. It is therefore important to be able to
look to other countries and consider lessons that could be
drawn. Learning from abroad is a difficult and challenging
exercise. While it is tempting to try and take the ‘best’
aspects of foreign policies and to bring them home, it is
often dangerous to do so without a real appreciation of
their context – not only their macro-economic and
ideological foundations – but also their organisational
basis. The core task of welfare to work programmes is to
enable and encourage non-employed claimants of cash
transfer programmes to work or to better prepare them for
employment. The core of this report is a comparison of
British, American, French, German and Dutch practices
