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2007 | Buch

Active Labor Market Policies in Europe

Performance and Perspectives

verfasst von: Dr. Jochen Kluve, David Card, Michael Fertig, Marek Góra, Lena Jacobi, Peter Jensen, Reelika Leetmaa, Leonhard Nima, Eleonora Patacchini, Sandra Schaffner, Christoph M. Schmidt, Bas van der Klaauw, Andrea Weber

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Measures of Active Labor Market Policy - such as training, wage subsidies, public employment measures, and job search assistance - are widely used in European countries to combat unemployment. Little, however, is known about what each country can learn from experiences in other countries. This study provides novel insight on this important policy issue by discussing the role of the European Commission's Employment Strategy, reviewing the experiences made in European states, and giving the first ever quantitative assessment of the existing cross-country evidence, answering the question "what labor market program works for what target group under what (economic and institutional) circumstances?". Using an innovative meta-analytical approach, the authors find that rather than contextual factors such as labor market institutions or the business cycle, it is almost exclusively the program type that matters for program effectiveness: While direct employment programs in the public sector appear detrimental, wage subsidies and "Services and Sanctions" can be effective in increasing participants' employment probability.

Metadaten
Titel
Active Labor Market Policies in Europe
verfasst von
Dr. Jochen Kluve
David Card
Michael Fertig
Marek Góra
Lena Jacobi
Peter Jensen
Reelika Leetmaa
Leonhard Nima
Eleonora Patacchini
Sandra Schaffner
Christoph M. Schmidt
Bas van der Klaauw
Andrea Weber
Copyright-Jahr
2007
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Electronic ISBN
978-3-540-48558-2
Print ISBN
978-3-540-48557-5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48558-2