Cost-benefit analysis of remedial interventions for the long-term unemployed

Addressing long-term unemployment is one of the objectives of the European Network of Public Employment Services (PES), as defined in Art 2 of the Decision on enhanced cooperation between PES. In its work programme for 2015, the Network included activities addressing the role of PES in the area of long term unemployment including (at the request of the European Commission, EC), a working group on the integration of the long term unemployed. The overall objective of this study is to assess the administrative costs and the cost-effectiveness of a limited number of policy intervention options for reintegration of the long term unemployed (LTU) into the labour market. To this end, research was done for a sample of five Member States which are perceived as being sufficiently diverse in models of service provision and institutional delivery models to allow conclusions to be drawn of relevance to the EU28 countries.