The Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies

Edited by Jaap de Koning

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Abstract: This book argues that active labour market policies are necessary to improve the position of the unemployed but have so far performed relatively poorly. The contributing authors seek ways to improve active labour market policy and consider three means of doing so: improving the quality by better targeting and by better-designed measures, more efficient implementation and delivery, and better performance by benchmarking the various implementation agencies involved.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 9781845428464
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction

Jaap de Koning

Ch 2 Is the Changing Pattern in the Use of Active Labour Market Policies Consistent with what Evaluations Tell Us About their Relative Performance?

Jaap de Koning

Ch 3 Labour Market Activation Policies: A Comparison of the Use of Tax Credits in Belgium, the UK and the US

Gerlinde Verbist, Lieve De Lathouwer and Annelies Roggeman

Ch 4 Using the Unemployed as Employment Counsellors: Evaluation of an Initiative to Combat Long-term Unemployment

Lennart Delander, Jonas Månsson and Erik Nyberg

Ch 5 Recent Developments in Active Labour Market Policies in the UK: The Shifting Focus from Unemployment to Inactivity

Nigel Meager

Ch 6 Active Labour Market Policies and Social Inclusion: The Case of Flemish Social Enterprises

Ides Nicaise

Ch 7 Contracting-out the Public Employment Service: A New Institutional Economics Perspective

Oliver Bruttel

Ch 8 Between Efficiency and Equality: New Public–Private Arrangements in Employment Assistance for the Unemployment

Ludo Struyven

Ch 9 The Reform of the Dutch Public Employment Service

Jaap de Koning

Ch 10 Private versus Public Provision of Placement Services for Hard-to-Place Unemployed: An Impact Evaluation

Lennart Delander, Jonas Månsson and Erik Nyberg

Ch 11 Benchmarking Employment Services in Germany

Hugh Mosley and Kai-Uwe Müller

Ch 12 Mediation Services and the Outflow from Short-term Unemployment: Average and Relative Effectiveness of Public Employment Offices

Linda van Donk and Jaap de Koning

Ch 13 Implementation of Performance Measurement in Public Employment Services in Switzerland

Christoph Hilbert

Ch 14 Does Quality Matter? Analysing the Effect of Omitted Variables on Optimal Scale: An Application to Swedish Employment Offices

Jonas Månsson

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