This paper examines contracting-out employment counselling from public to private employment service agencies to enable young third country immigrant employment-related transition in Austria, Finland and the Czech Republic . Existing research pointed contracting-out of employment counselling as a major trend of Public Employment Service reforms. Given the enthusiasm to contracting (in general) for welfare from public to private sectors, assuming that non-state employment agencies are better off to meet consumers need and less bureaucratic in the implementation process. Yet, on the one hand, private enterprise may have too strong incentives to cut costs with self-interest and opportunism to maximised profit that can impair counseling service implementation quality. On the other hand, local government units faced costly administrative procedures and information asymmetry to monitor agency counseling activities. Based on document analysis, this paper concludes information, delegation of specific task, and monitoring as relational contractual agreement to enhance transparency and accountability that enable young third country immigrant employment-related transition from welfare to work in the selected entities. The outcome point to a new market-based performance management governance to negotiate huge sum of taxpayer`s money in times where countries are still facing economic crisis and fiscal burden with gross domestic product deficit. This is relevant to understand the pluralistic arrangement in a mixed economy setting with tension of interest between the public and private service providers in times of anti-immigration perspectives where not only hard-core unemployed non-EU citizens faced challenges, but the society and (global) economy to sustain social cohesion.
