RESq: Reform of Employment Services quorum

 

Steering Group

Finn, D (Dan)

Research Areas

• Employment programmes
• The benefit system
• Welfare to work strategies

Current Projects

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• Poverty and service delivery: benefits, tax credits and employment services – Joseph Rowntree Foundation (April 2007- April 2008). This research will review systematically the available evidence base on service delivery problems and solutions with a particular focus on the views and front line experiences of service users.
• ‘Welfare Markets’: lessons from contracting out welfare to work programmes in Australia and the Netherlands – Joseph Rowntree Foundation (December 2007-June 2008). This project will systematically review and assess recent research findings on the impact of the ‘welfare markets’ in Australia and the Netherlands.

Notable Publications

• Finn, D. (2009). Differential Pricing in Contracted Out Employment Programmes: Review of International Evidence.
• Finn, D. (2009). The ‘Welfare Market’: the role of the private sector in the delivery of benefits and employment services’, in Millar J. (ed) Understanding social security (Second edition): Issues for policy and practice.
• Finn, D. (2009). The ‘Welfare Market’ and the Flexible New Deal: Lessons from other countries.
• Mason D., Rahim N. , Casebourne J. and Finn, D. (2008). Poverty and service delivery: benefits, tax credits and employment services.
• Finn, D and Schulte, B. (2008). Activation Policies in Great Britain. In Eichhorst W., Konle-Seidl R. and Kaufmann O. (Eds.), Activating Labour Market Policy: A Comparative Study.
• Finn, D. (2008). ‘Welfare Markets’: lessons from contracting out the delivery of welfare to work programmes in Australia and the Netherlands.
• Finn, D and Mason D., Rahim N. and Casebourne J. . (2008). Problems in the delivery of benefits, tax credits and employment services.
• Atkinson R., Crawford A. and Finn, D. (2007). ‘The ‘Wicked Problems’ of British Cities: Unemployment, Inactivity and Welfare to Work’. In Donzelot J. (Eds.), Ville, City, Violence and Social Dependency.
• Finn, D. (2007). Australian Welfare Reform and the Job Network’, Working Brief. No.184, May, Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion
• Finn, D. (2007). 'Australian Welfare Reform and the Job Network', Working Brief. No.184, May, Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion
• Finn, D. (2007). Contracting Out Welfare to Work in the USA: Delivery Lessons. Research Report No. 466, Department for Work and Pensions
• Anderson A., Brooke B., Doyle A., Finn, D and Moley S. . (2006). Understanding young people in jobs without training: A report for the Department for Education and Skills by the Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion.
• Finn, D. (2006). Integration into the Labour Market of Vulnerable Groups. LAPs and RAPs Case Studies, Developing a Methodological Framework for Developing Local and Regional Plans for Social Inclusion, Social Inclusion project for the European Commission, QEC-ERAN
• Finn, D. (2006). Tackling Early School Leaving in Europe: Report and Case Studies. prepared for QeC-ERAN (‘Quartiers en Crisis - European Regeneration Areas Network’) and European Commission
• Knuth, M, Finn, D, Schweer, O and Somerville, W. (2004). Reinventing the public employment service: the changing role of employment assistance in Britain and Germany.

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