| Keynesian paradigm | Neo-liberal paradigm | Social investment (SIWS) |
Causes of unemployment | Insufficient demand | Rigidities in the labour market | Lack of appropriate skills |
Guiding values and principles | Social equity work for everyone de-commodification | Individual responsibility any job activation | Social inclusion more and better jobs capacitation equal opportunities prepare rather than repair |
Norms underlying public action | Big state growth of the welfare state | Lean state dismantling of the welfare state | Empowering state reconfiguration of the welfare state |
Main tools | Demand support insurances income support | Monetarist policies deregulation privatization workfare | Human capital development of services for access to employment flexicurity |