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New agency for labour market policy (Public Employment Service)
Country of implementation
Sweden
General short description of the innovation
An extensive reorganization of Swedish Labor market policies was carried out in 2008. The transformation of the National Labor Market Administration and the 20 county labour boards into the Swedish Public Employment Service was a change towards centralization. The motives behind this transformation were to guarantee a more efficient government, to adapt the organization to new challenges that occurred in society and to increase the quality of the organization. The Public Employment Service got a new operational focus with stronger emphasis on employment and matching.
Target group
Total Population
Policy Field
Type of Policy
- public
Duration of the policy
2008
Scope of innovation
- Scope: strucutral
- Spatial coverage: national
General description of (intended) objectives and strategies
Improve effectiveness of the agency, improve the reputation within the population
Nature of the innovation-long-term perspective
long-term
Type of ideal-typical strategy for the innovation
- others
Type of innovation
- other
New outputs
- services (standardization of services, centralization of services, )
Intended target group
Employment services
Actors involved in policy-making/implementation and/or evaluation
- agency or national social insurance body
- central state
Intended output
- governance
Did the innovation have any outcome related to job quantity?
improve the work done by the employment services in general
Clarification of outcomes in terms of impacting resilience and labour market inclusion
The new organization is till heavely critised, unemployment is high, matchning has not improved
