The purpose of the study is to investigate the collaboration between the Swedish Public Em-ployment Service and the municipalities in southern Halland (Falkenberg, Halmstad, Hylte, Laholm) based on Huxham and Vangen's theory of the benefits of collaboration, "Theory Of

Collaborative Advantage". The theory is suitable for studies of organizations and is based on

the fact that there are different incentives or motives for starting a collaboration. The various

motives give collaboration the prerequisite for success. In addition to the motives for collabo-ration, it is required that the partens who collaborate meet some of the criteria that Huxham and Vangen call the seven different perspectives. The authors believe that collaboration is difficult and very complex, but by analyzing which points work in collaboration, the chance of achieving the common goal is greater. By analyzing the collaboration between the Swedish Public Em-ployment Service and the municipalities in southern Halland with Huxham and Vangen's theory about the benefits of collaboration, it emerges that through local agreements there is a function-ing collaboration. On the other hand, it turns out that in the operational part of collaboration for those who are far from the labor market and receive financial assistance, there is still difficulty in making collaboration work optimally, and this is due to poor communication between the officials who work directly with decisions and planning for that group.