The Swedish Activity Guarantee

Anders Forslund (), Daniela Froberg and Linus Lindqvist
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Daniela Froberg: Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy
Linus Lindqvist: Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

No 16, OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: Until recently, an unemployed person in Sweden who participated in an active labour market programme earned entitlement to a further 60 weeks of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. A "carousel" effect - cycling between periods of open unemployment and participation in active programmes - increasingly seen came to be seen as a factor making the active programmes less effective in promoting the transition to ordinary work. Following policy reforms in 2000 and 2001, participation in a programme no longer generates new UI entitlements. However, the public employment service (PES) can refer the unemployed to a new programme, the Activity Guarantee. This provides continuing income support, and engages participants in job-search and other activities in principle full-time until they find ordinary work. This paper summarises findings from two questionnaire surveys of the implementation of the Activity Guarantee. The first survey was addressed to PES case workers, who have direct ... En Suède, jusqu`à une date récente, le fait, pour un chômeur, à un programme actif du marché du travail ouvrait droit à une nouvelle période d'assurance chômage (AC) de 60 semaines. Un effet de "carrousel" – passages répétés entre des périodes de chômage "simple" et des périodes de participation à un programme actif - a progressivement fait que les programmes promouvaient moins efficacement la transition vers un emploi ordinaire. Suite à des réformes introduites en 2000 et 2001, la participation dans un programme ne permet plus d'acquérir de nouveaux droits à l'AC. Le Service public de l'emploi (SPE) peut néanmoins admettre les chômeurs à un nouveau programme, la "Garantie d'activité". Ce programme les engage dans des activités de recherche d'emploi et autres, en principe à temps complet, jusqu`à l'obtention d'un travail ordinaire. La présente étude résume les résultats de deux enquêtes concernant la mise en oeuvre de ce nouveau programme. La première enquête a été adressée aux ...

JEL-codes: J64 J65 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-01-22
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