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Coordination in labour market policy: the influence of governance and institutional logics.

Thesis
Fuertes, V. Coordination in labour market policy: the influence of governance and institutional logics. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1033234
This PhD analyses the factors that affect the existence or absence of coordination in the field of labour market policy for the long-term unemployed in three cities in Great B...

The Impact of an Ageing Workforce on Employers in Hong Kong: A Study of the Service Sector

Report
Egdell, V., Fuertes, V., Tjandra, N., Chen, T. & Raeside, R. (2017)
The Impact of an Ageing Workforce on Employers in Hong Kong: A Study of the Service Sector. Edinburgh: Lawrence Ho Research Fund 2016-2017
No abstract available.

The Impact of an Ageing Workforce on Hong Kong’s Service Sector

Presentation / Conference
Egdell, V., Fuertes, V., Tjandra, N., & Chen, T. (2017, July)
The Impact of an Ageing Workforce on Hong Kong’s Service Sector. Paper presented at British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference 2017, Swansea, UK
The aim of this research is to explore the impact of the ageing population on employers in the Hong Kong service sector.

Women in ICT and Digital Technologies: An investigation of the barriers to women entering, staying, and progressing in the sector, and actions to ameliorate this - Executive Summary

Report
Graham, H., Fuertes, V., Egdell, V. & Raeside, R. (2016)
Women in ICT and Digital Technologies: An investigation of the barriers to women entering, staying, and progressing in the sector, and actions to ameliorate this - Executive Summary. Edinburgh: Skills Development Scotland
This report summarises research conducted to explore the under-representation of women in the ICT and Digital Technologies sector in Scotland, and the possible reasons for, an...

Local worlds of coordinated activation policy.

Book Chapter
Zimmermann, K., Fuertes, V., & Aurich-Beerheide, P. (2016)
Local worlds of coordinated activation policy. In M. Heidenreich, & D. Rice (Eds.), Integrating social and employment policies in europe: active inclusion and challenges for local welfare governance, 235-264. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783474929.00018
In Chapter 11 on local worlds of coordinated activation in Europe, Katharina Zimmermann, Vanesa Fuertes and Patrizia Aurich-Beerheide shed light on the role of the local level...

Personalized activation policies for the long-term unemployed: the role of local governance in the UK.

Book Chapter
Fuertes, V., & McQuaid, R. (2016)
Personalized activation policies for the long-term unemployed: the role of local governance in the UK. In M. Heidenreich, & D. Rice (Eds.), Integrating social and employment policies in europe: active inclusion and challenges for local welfare governance, 93-117. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783474929.00012
In Chapter 5 on the UK, Vanesa Fuertes and Ronald McQuaid study how coordinated activation policies, which have been a core part of the UK welfare state since at least the 199...

Findings from LOCALISE.

Presentation / Conference
Fuertes, V., & McQuaid, R. W. (2014, May)
Findings from LOCALISE
LOCALISE (Local Worlds of Social Cohesion), funded by the European Commission 7th Framework Programme, has analysed the coordination of social and employment policies during t...

Day Programme: LOCALISE Event - Labour market policies from development to implementation.

Conference Proceeding
Fuertes, V. (2014)
Day Programme: LOCALISE Event - Labour market policies from development to implementation

Personalization, new public management and street-level practice in activation: the case of the UK’s Work Programme.

Presentation / Conference
Lindsay, C., & Fuertes, V. (2014, January)
Personalization, new public management and street-level practice in activation: the case of the UK’s Work Programme. Paper presented at 12th Annual Conference ESPAnet Oslo 2014, 4-6 September, Oslo

Sustainable integration of the long term unemployed: From Work First to Career First.

Book
McQuaid, R. W., & Fuertes, V. (2013)
Sustainable integration of the long term unemployed: From Work First to Career First. In C. Larsen, S. Rand, A. Schmid, & R. Keil (Eds.), Sustainable Economy and Sustainable Employment: Approaches to Measuring Sustainability in Regional and Local Labour Market Monitoring, 359-373. Rainer Hampp Verlag
In recent decades, governmental approaches to employment activation policy in many countries have been driven by principles of individual skills development with a focus on “W...