What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature

Sebastian Butschek and Thomas Walter

No 13-056, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Abstract: A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta-analysis, we condense 93 estimates from 33 empir-ical studies of the effectiveness of four types of ALMPs employed across Europe to combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find that only wage subsidies in the private sector can be confidently recommended to European policy-makers.

Keywords: immigrants; unemployment; labour market integration; ALMP; evaluation; meta-analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I38 J15 J61 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-lab and nep-mig
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