1. Borbély-Pecze Tibor Bors, Ph.D. 2013-14-1 Semester 2/3 (topics 5-6)

2.  Politics and policy, national and European policies: development of Employment Policy  Employment Policy and the relation of other human policies such as education, social &health policies  Who makes policy?  Development of the European Labour Market and development of national and international employment policies  Case study: The Hungarian Labour Market  Hungarian Labour Market Policy under the European Employment Strategy: How does OMC model work in practice?  Changing role of the Public Employment Services in the changing labour market (views of the ILO, OECD and EC: PES 2020 strategy)  Development of the European Employment Strategy and previous development at the European policy field –Commission White Paper on Employment….(1993)  New concepts of the international organisations and the European Union on labour market policy: flexicurity, employability, adaptability, partnership approach, multilevel governance, etc.  Role of the structural funds at delivering European and national employment policy goals

3.  Topic 1. Development of the European Employment Policy as a policy, milestones between 1993-2013  Topic 2. Designing & developing policy loops in the field of employment policy: concrete case study with a chosen ALMP  Topic 3. Europe 2020 – European Semester: Country-specific recommendations and applications in national employment policies

6. Active labour market policies (ALMPs) are those policies from the toolkits of policy- makers that combine transfer payments with either work or training activities. They comprise an array of measures from special support for the unemployed, in the form of help with job search, training and education, to subsidies for taking up jobs and job-creation activities such as community work programmes. (ILO, 2008)

7.  ALMPs were conceptualized and implemented on a fairly large scale during the Great Depression in the 1930s; New Deal in the United States  The German experience with such schemes, initiated by the conservative governments during the Weimar Republic, but expanded and transformed into more compulsory schemes by the Nazi government, gave some aspects of ALMPs a lasting negative image.  1950s, most notably in Sweden, as part and parcel of the Swedish model of economic and societal change  1970s, and France followed suit after the first oil shock  The European Employment Strategy (EES) of the European Commission of 1997 made active policies an important policy tool.  former Eastern bloc, they have been used on a massive scale during the transition to market economies since the 1990s. (ILO, 2008)

10. EiE 2006 Chapter 2 p.9; EEO Autumn 2006 p2.

12. Legend Cases 30.9 - 54.0 7 54.0 - 61.7 7 61.7 - 66.4 7 66.4 - 72.2 7 72.2 - 79.1 5 Data not available 0

13. Eurostat: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/Euro_2020/E2020_EN_banner.html The 5 targets for the EU in 2020 1. Employment 75% of the 20-64 year-olds to be employed 2. R&D / innovation 3% of the EU's GDP (public and private combined) to be invested in R&D/innovation 3. Climate change / energy greenhouse gas emissions 20% (or even 30%, if the conditions are right) lower than 1990 20% of energy from renewables 20% increase in energy efficiency 4. Education Reducing school drop-out rates below 10% at least 40% of 30-34–year-olds completing third level education 5. Poverty / social exclusion at least 20 million fewer people in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion National targets: http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/pdf/targets_en.pdfhttp://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/pdf/targets_en.pdf

14. http://www.capitalbay.com/uk/304257-greying-workforce-is-squeezing-younger-generation-out-of-jobs-after-over-50s-see-90-rise-in- employment.html