Principal-Agent Agreement and Unemployed third Country Nationals: The Role of Public and Private Employment Service Agencies in Contracting-Out Employment Case Management to enable Young Third Country Immigrants Employment-related Transition From Welfare to Work in Czech Republic
Abstract
This purpose of this paper is to explores contracting-out of employment case management service implementation and the role of public and private employment service agencies under principal-agency agreement in Czech Republic to enable young third country immigrant employment-related transition from unemployment to all types of employment. The qualitative case study was to understand the role of Local Public Employment Service (PES) and Private Employment Service agencies in contracting-out for employment case management service delivery to enable young third country immigrant employment-related transition from welfare to work.
Drawing on official employment-related legislative documents and scholastic text, data were collected. Data were analyse using document and thematic qualitative content analysis techniques.
The findings show information, monitoring to guide ethical value and accountability, and bonding to target agency's conduct. This outcomes points to crucial authoritative model in contracting-out of employment case management implementation to manage taxpayer's money in time where countries are still facing financial crisis with gross domestic product deficit.
The single case-oriented approach focused only to Czech Republic with insufficiently generalization to explain the phenomenon in countries not included in the study leading to low external validity. In addition, this study focuses mainly on young third country immigrant employment-related transition from welfare to work in Czech Republic.
Thus, irregular and undocumented third country immigrants are not part of this study. Analysing research findings with the lens of contracting-out model, assumes that human beings actions are rational bounded with self-interest and opportunism.
Using principal-agent theory in contracting-out case management study allows the investigation to specify tasks as well as how controlling and monitoring over private agencies and bonding mechanism serve as prerequisite for principal's (PES) authoritative managerial duty to enable young third country immigrant's from welfare to work. The outcome of this study is relevant because it widens the understanding of corporate partnership between officials (principal) and employment agencies (agent) to improve young third country immigrant's transition into work.
Also, the researcher hopes this research contribution would stimulate further study in active policy measure implementation and governance. In addition, this research outcome offers other observation and approach of the researcher about the implementation governance of activation policy measures to enable young third country immigrant's employment-related transition.
Hence, the most important contribution is not the achievement, but to contribute for further study in third country national's research. This research is considering the distinctiveness of third country national's heterogeneous group's sub-category as a focused group to enrich the real community and foster social cohesion.
There is still little rigorous empirical evidence to justify the contracting out of employment case management services service delivery to enable third country national's employment related transition from welfare to work in CEE countries, including Czech Republic with needs to fill this knowledge gap. This study enriches this line of qualitative research and concentrates in particular on the sub group of young third country immigrants among the heterogeneous groups of third country nationals.