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Re-examining British Welfare-to-Work Contracting using a Transaction Cost Perspective
2016
Journal of Social Policy
This article critically reflects on the administration of activation services in the UK. It describes the welfare-to-work quasi-market and focuses on the impact of 2008 commissioning reforms that advocated amalgamating small contracts into larger 'lots', creating a top tier of prime providers to manage subcontractors, and increasing outcome-based funding. Drawing on transaction cost theory and empirical case study research, it is demonstrated that these changes led to an increase in a range of
doi:10.1017/s0047279416000337
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