Effort Commitment in Active Labour Market Policy

Claus Thustrup Hansen and Torben Tranaes ()
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Claus Thustrup Kreiner

Chapter 11 in Macroeconomic Perspectives on the Danish Economy, 1999, pp 335-364 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The received perception of what is the right mixture of benefit reforms and active measures in the battle against unemployment varies. Despite the warnings from Scandinavian economists like Calmfors, Forslund, Nymoen and others, active measures were highly recommended some years ago with Sweden as the example to follow (see, for example, Jackman, 1990; Layard, Nickell and Jackman, 1991). After the major increase in Swedish unemployment after 1991, economists tended to be more sceptical and the extensive studies of active labour market programmes is now the foundation for serious doubts about the effectiveness of active labour market policy (hereafter, ALMP).

Keywords: Labour Market; Labour Supply; Wage Rate; Effort Requirement; Labour Market Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230501034_11

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