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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823889503321

Autore

Castonguay Julie

Titolo

Benchmarking carrots and sticks : developing a model for the evaluation of work-based employment programs / / Julie Castonguay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-45359-9

9786612453595

90-485-1068-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (395 p.)

Disciplina

301

350

Soggetti

Employee assistance programs - Evaluation - Mathematical models

Employee assistance programs - Standards

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as the author's Ph.D Thesis from the University of Amsterdam.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Table of Content; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Benchmarking the policy-chain; 3. The three dimensions of work-based employment programs; 4. Performance indicators of work-based employment programs; 5. Summary and conclusions on social benchmarking; 6. Input Benchmark; 7. Process Benchmark; 8. Output Benchmark; 9. Impact benchmark; 10. External factors; 11. Benchmark synthesis; 12. Conclusions and recommendations; References; Appendix A Formulas and calculations; Summary in English; Nederlandse Samenvatting

Sommario/riassunto

Julie Castonguay developes a social benchmark model which can be used to assess the performance of active labour market policies in general, and work-based employment programs in specific