Activation and Unemployed Third-country Nationals: The Implication of Work-related Incentives to promote work in Austria, Finland and Czech Republic
Abstract
This paper analyses the implication of work-related incentives and services under Employment Acts enabling young third country immigrant's transition to work in Austria, Finland and Czech Republic. Based on document analysis and an overview of scholarly texts, this paper concludes a convergence of the selected entities towards behavioral targeting regulatory governance that administer young third-country immigrants' transition from welfare to work.
However, Czech Republic is dissimilar to Austria and Finland with the focus on investment incentive governance to encourage employers/investors to create jobs, whereas Finland and Austria prefer to grant employers subsidies when they employ multiple disadvantaged job seekers. The outcome pointed to a move toward the recommodification of labour in time of austerity policy reforms.
This is relevant because it reflects a pivotal shift in the conventional welfare-state discourse based on a social-democratic model that may undermine vulnerable people participation and penalize belongings with social cohesion.