Reforming labour market policy governance: the Quebec experience
By: Haddow, Rodney.
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ArticlePublisher: 1998Description: p.343-68.Subject(s): Labour market - Quebec | Labour market
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Canadian Public AdministrationSummary: Research on labour-market programs suggests that their effectiveness is enhanced when the private sector is involved in designing and directing them. One way of bringing this influence to bear involves the creation of concerted deliberative assemblies, dominated by organized business and labour, that are granted an important decision-making authority regarding these measures. This article examines the effort to launch such a deliberative assembly in Quebec, the only Canadian province that has, to this point, succeeded in putting such an assembly into place durably. The model has encountered significant obstacles - above all, the resistance of officials and politicians who are anxious to protect their traditional policy-making prerogatives, as well as to protect labour-market programs from uninformed and self-interested private-sector input. Nevertheless, the governance reform has acquired a clear record of accomplishments since it was launched in 1991. Moreover, while the Quebec political economy is clearly more auspicious for the concertation model than is the case elsewhere in Canada, it nevertheless offers some useful insights to those who might attempt to apply the model elsewhere in Canada. - Reproduced
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Research on labour-market programs suggests that their effectiveness is enhanced when the private sector is involved in designing and directing them. One way of bringing this influence to bear involves the creation of concerted deliberative assemblies, dominated by organized business and labour, that are granted an important decision-making authority regarding these measures. This article examines the effort to launch such a deliberative assembly in Quebec, the only Canadian province that has, to this point, succeeded in putting such an assembly into place durably. The model has encountered significant obstacles - above all, the resistance of officials and politicians who are anxious to protect their traditional policy-making prerogatives, as well as to protect labour-market programs from uninformed and self-interested private-sector input. Nevertheless, the governance reform has acquired a clear record of accomplishments since it was launched in 1991. Moreover, while the Quebec political economy is clearly more auspicious for the concertation model than is the case elsewhere in Canada, it nevertheless offers some useful insights to those who might attempt to apply the model elsewhere in Canada. - Reproduced
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