The labour market policy in the EU

Ewa Rollnik-Sadowska (), Edyta Dabrowska (), Britta Luedeke () and Doris Wiethoelter ()
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Ewa Rollnik-Sadowska: Bialystok University of Technology, Wiejska 45 A, 15-351 Bialystok Poland,
Edyta Dabrowska: Marshal's Office of Podlasie province, Poleska 89, 15-874 Bialystok, Poland
Britta Luedeke: Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Regionaldirektion Berlin-Brandenburg, Friedrichstr. 34, 10969 Berlin, Germany
Doris Wiethoelter: IAB Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany

No 101/2017, Working Papers from Institute of Economic Research

Abstract: In the era of demographic changes and need for rationalization of public expenditure, the European Union social policy promotes the activation approach. In addition, there can be noticed a growing importance of increasing the efficiency of public policies. The authors are presenting the main theoretical assumptions concerning efficiency as well as classification of methods for measuring of efficiency of labour market policies. Moreover, the EU countries are classified in clusters according to their level of expenditure on different categories of LMP. The paper is based on critical analysis of literature as well as analysis of secondary research findings. The cross-country labour market situation in the EU is based on the analysis of the Eurostat data by the k-means method. There is a need to work out a complex evaluation of labour market policies in the EU to provide comparative analysis of the EU countries (or groups of countries). It would allow determining the level of development of the country in terms of the efficiency of labour market policies.The EU countries with the best labour market situation represent diverse levels of LMP expenditure.

Keywords: labour market policy; efficiency; LMP expenditure; clusters of the European Un-ion countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 J08 J11 J24 J88 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-05, Revised 2017-05
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