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Table 4 Regional labour market monitoring as ‘learning system’ of policy actors and processes

From: Regional health workforce monitoring as governance innovation: a German model to coordinate sectoral demand, skill mix and mobility

Dimensions of monitoring

Actors and processes

Policy actors

• Representatives from educational institutions/schools

• Professional associations

• Unemployment insurance

• Sickness funds

• Old age care insurance

• Federal Government/ministries

• Researchers

Policy processes

• Building networks and channels to improve coordination

• Connecting government, stakeholder board and research to enable shared decision-making

• Reducing interest-driven strategies of professional groups through developing shared goals and identities to improve integrated policy-making

• Providing research-based data to improve evidence-based decision-making

Policy implementation and evaluation

• Connecting top-town (government) regulatory power and bottom-up stakeholder agency

• Using stakeholder participation to strengthen accountability and support of provider organizations and institutions

• Establishing evaluation of targets and policies

Learning system/governance improvements

• Revising targets and policy according to evaluation data

• Establishing transsectoral and trans-border governance

• Including new stakeholders where relevant

  1. Source: authors’ own table