Bringing unemployed back to work: effective active labor market policies

Authors
Publication date 2009
Journal De Economist
Volume | Issue number 157 | 3
Pages (from-to) 293-313
Organisations
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract We present a theoretical analysis of different types of active labor market policies in the context of a search-matching model. We find that labor market training is effective in bringing down unemployment while public employment services and subsidized jobs are not effective at all. This theoretical finding is confirmed in an explorative empirical analysis using data from 20 OECD countries.
Document type Article
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10645-009-9127-4
Published at http://www.springerlink.com/content/1k3m91m52l1j2238/fulltext.pdf
Permalink to this page
Back