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

Sebastian Butschek and Thomas Walter

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.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Butschek, Sebastian ; Walter, Thomas
Publisher:	Mannheim : ZEW
Subject:	immigrants \| unemployment \| labour market integration \| ALMP \| evaluation \| meta-analysis \| Meta-Analyse \| Meta-analysis \| Arbeitsmarktpolitik \| Labour market policy \| Arbeitslosigkeit \| Unemployment \| Arbeitsmigranten \| Migrant workers \| EU-Staaten \| EU countries \| Arbeitsmarkt \| Labour market \| Migranten \| Migrants \| Arbeitsmarktintegration \| Labour market integration \| Einwanderung \| Immigration \| Soziale Integration \| Social integration \| Beschäftigungseffekt \| Employment effect \| Wirkungsanalyse \| Impact assessment