Effective Active Labor Market Policies

Jan Boone and Jan van Ours

No 1335, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of different types of active labor market policies (ALMP). In our empirical analysis we use data on 20 OECD countries covering the time period 1985-1999. We find that labor market training is the most effective program to bring down unemployment. Public employment services have some impact while subsidized jobs are not effective at all. Our theory considers ALMP in the context of a search-matching model.

Keywords: unemployment; active labor market programs; training; public employment services; subsidized jobs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H55 J65 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2004-10
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Published - published as 'Bringing Unemployed Back to Work: Effective Active Labor Market Policies' in: De Economist, 2007, 157 (3), 293-313

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