The Effectiveness of Regional Active Labour Market Policies to Fight against Unemployment: An Analysis for Catalonia

Raul Ramos, Jordi Suriñach and Manuel Artís

No 4649, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The aim of this work is to assess the effectiveness of active labour market policies carried out by the Catalan Public Employment Services (SOC) during the year 2005. The results obtained from the application of matching techniques show that the probability of finding a job for an individual who participated in any of the analyzed SOC's actions is 5 percentage points higher in relation to those who did not participate. The individual analysis of the different programs has shown the effectiveness of the greater part of the actions carried out. Last, the results have also highlighted the further improvement of the combination of some of the actions.

Keywords: active labour market policies; unemployment; propensity score matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 J64 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2009-12
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