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Dynamics and limits of Europeanisation: Negotiating and implementing EU employment policies regarding youth unemployment in Luxembourg

par Thill, Patrick
Président du jury Crespy, Amandine
Promoteur Tojerow, Ilan
Publication Non publié, 2024-09-17

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The purpose of the research is to analyse how the dynamics of implementing employment policies in the field of youth unemployment have been given a European focus in Luxembourg as a result of increasing multilevel governance and top-down pressure from European institutions to achieve European Employment Strategy targets. The policy area of youth unemployment serves the purpose of analysing how Luxembourg responds to peer pressure at the various interacting levels of governance (EU – government – social/civil) and what is finally filtered back upwards into the process by the stakeholders involved in the implementation dynamics. It is assumed that Luxembourg, due to its particular labour market characterised by a large number of cross-border and immigrant workers, its economic size and dependence on external factors, and its law-embedded collective bargaining structures at the national and sector levels, constitutes a laboratory to study forms of governance and policy management, as well as social appropriation processes. The balancing between allotting limited financial resources and achieving common objectives through peer pressure raises the question of what scope of action there still is to comply with a constructed agenda of employment objectives in times of high youth unemployment. Are national traditions of policy implementation processes circumvented or reinforced? Are democratic participation processes applied, legitimised and given enough credit? By applying qualitative research methods, these questions are analysed by critically studying the policy negotiation and implementation processes via adaptation dynamics and potential barriers at the various levels of negotiation, the implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Luxembourg as a policy example, and the involvement of social and civil society partners in these processes.