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The policy paradigm analyzed in the preceding chapter was relatively coherent. The different levels of policy, including instruments, programs, and the overall goals, were mutually supportive. This integrity depended on the underlying problem understanding of labor market issues. This chapter examines the problem understanding with two aims: First, the role of ideas in the problem understanding is examined by comparing the problem understanding with an alternative. This allows for a better estimate of the effects of ideas on actor behavior. Second, the development of the problem understanding is analyzed to improve our knowledge about the processes through which policy-relevant ideas change. This chapter raises the question: How can we explain the development of the problem understanding underlying the policy paradigm?
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For the policy ambitions of this approach see, for example, the contribution by Rogers and Streeck in Reinventing the Left (1994) edited by David Miliband: (Rogers & Streeck, 1994). It should be noted that Streeck’s recommendations differed significantly toward the end of the 1990s (Streeck, 1999).
In the same volume, Schmid argued that “the jobs of the future will increasingly take on some of the characteristics of jobs in the arts and media” which are “integrated into networks and less into firms” (Schmid, 2002, p. 171). The section was prefaced with a quotation by Andy Warhol: “The job of the future is not car mechanic, but to be famous once in a lifetime” (Schmid, 2002, p. 164).
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Schellinger, A. (2016). Thought Communities and ‘Work’. In: EU Labor Market Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137508720_4
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