Principal-Agent Relation and Contracting-out for Employment Case Management to Enable Third-Country Nationals' Transition to Work

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F19%3A10399569" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/19:10399569 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=21iiQojcI_" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=21iiQojcI_</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nispa-2019-0012" target="_blank" >10.2478/nispa-2019-0012</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Principal-Agent Relation and Contracting-out for Employment Case Management to Enable Third-Country Nationals' Transition to Work

Original language description

This paper analyzes the role of public and private employment-service agencies in contracting-out for employment case management under principal-agency relation to understand young third-country immigrants&apos; transition to work in Czechia, Poland, and Hungary. Existing research pointed to contracting-out as a major trend in public-service reforms when the government (principal) hires private employment agencies (agents) to perform service delivery, but overall the control of standards and accountability to the public remains with the authority. Although the principal-agency relation shows human beings as rational and opportunist in corporate governance, there is still little research in CEE countries explaining the role of public and private employment agencies under principal-agency relation in contracting-out for case management to understand young third-country immigrants&apos; transition to work. Based on a qualitative cross-national case-oriented research approach with fewer-country comparison, documents and scholastic texts are collected and analyzed by means of a document and content analysis technique to fill in this gap. The findings show that open information, regulation, and monitoring administrative devices are a major perceived influence in principal-agency relational governance with a lack of cooperation that may impair the quality and service when looking at issues such as employment-related transition of young third-country immigrants and socio-economically disadvantaged groups in a contracting-out setting. The study demonstrated certain decentralized new public administration governance similarities but dissimilarities from the country&apos;s institutional context. The outcome points to regulatory administrative devices to target agencies&apos; behavior and young vulnerable people&apos;s need for paid work. This is relevant to performance monitoring in contemporary fluid society targeting benefits and scarce resources that may not only constrain ethnic minorities&apos; upward mobility, but the economy and the social cohesion process

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50602 - Public administration

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

The NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy

ISSN

1337-9038

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

9-28

UT code for WoS article

000502563300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85077126171