“Who does what” for active labour market policies: A zoom on the role of subnational governments

Oecd

No 2023/09, OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: This paper maps “who does what” across levels of government in OECD countries in relation to active labour market policies (ALMPs), with a focus on the role of subnational governments. It highlights recent reforms in the multi-level governance of ALMPs in a number of countries, and shows that in about two out of five OECD countries, subnational governments have some type of formal competences for delivering ALMPs. It also shows other ways subnational governments are commonly involved in such policies. This includes delivering their own labour market programmes, often targeted to those farthest from the labour market or facing multiple barriers to employment. Finally, it considers some of the benefits and drawbacks of more decentralised approaches to ALMPs and offers some general principles for managing these trade-offs across different types of governance systems.

Keywords: active labour market policies; employment; multi-level governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H70 J08 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-06-21
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1787/d8d6868d-en (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oec:cfeaaa:2023/09-en

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Papers from OECD Publishing Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().