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A Job, Any Job : The UK Benefits System and Employment Services in an Age of Austerity
2017
Observatoire de la société britannique
This paper looks at the recent past of the benefits system and employment services in the UK and how they have operated through more than five years of austerity. The UK presents an interesting case, as the unemployment rate following the financial crisis has recovered faster than expected. The major reforms to welfare-to-work programmes and cuts to the public sector, together with continued labour market flexibility, have been identified as the source of this triumph. Yet behind this apparent
doi:10.4000/osb.1965
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