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Active labour market policies in a recession

Andersen, Torben M.; Svarer, Michael - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

A major labour market challenge following the Great Recession is to avoid an increase in long-term unemployment and thus the structural unemployment rate. Active labour market policies may play an important role in this respect. We consider these issues with outset in Denmark which is a country...

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Activation and employment support policies in OECD countries: An overview of current approaches

Immervoll, Herwig; Scarpetta, Stefano - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-22

This note examines the balance of activation strategies in OECD countries, where this type of policy approach has a long tradition. Countries share the objective of strengthening employment and reducing benefit dependency and vulnerability among the working-age population, but the balance of...

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Good workers for good jobs: Improving education and workforce systems in the US

Holzer, Harry J. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-19

Stagnant earnings and growing inequality in the US labor market reflect both a slowdown in the growth of worker skills and the growing matching of good-paying jobs to skilled workers. Improving the ties between colleges, workforce institutions, and employers would help more workers gain the...

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Beschäftigungswirkungen von öffentlich geförderten Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen: Eine Paneluntersuchung für Westdeutschland

Prey, Hedwig - 1997

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Central and East European labor markets in transition: Developments, causes, and cures

Franz, Wolfgang - 1994

The main questions addressed in this paper are, firstly, how labor markets in the Visegard countries reacted to the breakdown of a command economy and the transformation to a market economy. Secondly, it is analyzed which way ahead is likely, or to put it differently, what should be done now to...

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Training in East Germany: An evaluation of the effects on employment and wages

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Prey, Hedwig - 1996

Support of training has been one of the most important instruments of active labor market policy in East Germany. This paper attempts an evaluation of the effects of training on future employment and future wages of trainees. The analysis distinguishes between measures within and outside of the...

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Wirkungen von Maßnahmen staatlicher Arbeitsmarkt- und Beschäftigungspolitik

Prey, Hedwig; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1997

Gutachten untersucht die Wirkungen der Arbeitsmarktpolitik und deren Möglichkeiten und Grenzen unter verschiedenen Aspekten, die … für eine wirtschaftspolitische Beurteilung relevant sind. Dabei stehen Maßnahmen der Aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik im … Vordergrund. Im ersten Teil des Gutachtens werden die wichtigsten Instrumente der Aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in ihrer rechtlichen …

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The rise (and fall) of labour market programmes: The role of global and domestic factors

Gaston, Noel; Rajaguru, Gulasekaran - 2004

We study the political economy of labour market policies. First, it is shown that tax and redistributive considerations lead inside workers to prefer spending on active labour market programmes to passive spending, e.g., on unemployment benefits. We also show that greater active spending may be...

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Anatomy of policy complementarities

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 1998

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Youth unemployment and government policy

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 1997

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