The main purpose of the present text is assessing EU law from the perspective of its "impact" on national systems of social protection, social services and labour law : how does EU governance affect "social policy" in the Union ? After recalling the main characteristics of EU governance and...

What has been analysed in France mainly under the term "précarité de l'emploi" over the past 30 years was mostly dealt with differently in other countries (atypical, non-standard employment). Research on these issues dates back to the 1970s in sociology and institutional economics. More...

A partir de 2004, la Stratégie de Lisbonne a été recentrée sur les réformes structurelles et les prescriptions économiques, alors que, à l'issue du sommet de Lisbonne, une stratégie différente, organisée en partie autour des méthodes ouvertes de coordination avait innové, et...

Les PLIE, cofinancés par le Fonds Social Européen au titre de l'objectif 3, visent à mobiliser sur des objectifs quantitatifs l'ensemble des acteurs intervenant au plan local en faveur de l'insertion. Les notions de "partenariat" et de "parcours d'insertion" sur lesquelles ils s'adossent,...

La comparaison internationale des politiques est, de façon cruciale, liée à la pratique de la traduction pour deux raisons qui s'interpénètrent : la compréhension comparée des politiques ne peut faire abstraction du rôle central que joue la langue dans tout exercice de la politique,...

Le présent texte est consacré à la gestion du service public de l'emploi en France. Une première partie présente un bilan de la mise en oeuvre des trois premiers "contrats de progrès" signés entre l'Etat et l'ANPE (1990-2003). Au cours de la période considérée, la mise en oeuvre des...

The French system of social protection, contrary to many simplistic accounts, has undergone quite a great number of reforms in the past 30 years. This were very differentiated across sectors but also appear as linked to the business cycle. The French system, in its present developments does not...

In matters of "activation of social protection" as in other policy areas, one would expect that three types of welfare regimes would be identifiable. However, with the hindsight of 20 years of the deployment of "activation strategies", it is still impossible to draw the stylized characters of a...

The French system of social protection, contrary to many simplistic accounts, has undergone quite a great number of reforms in the past 30 years. This were very differentiated across sectors but also appear as linked to the business cycle. The French system, in its present developments does not...

From 2004 on a new Lisbon strategy was in force, after the Commission and Council's decisions to refocus the previous European Employment strategy and associated Open methods of coordination in the social area. After Kok's taskforce report, the order of the day was to focus on structurall...