Effective Active Labor Market Policies
40 Pages Posted: 30 Dec 2004
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Date Written: October 2004
Abstract
We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of different types of active labor market policies (ALMP). In our empirical analysis, we use data on 20 OECD countries covering the time period 1985-1999. We find that labor market training is the most effective program to bring down unemployment. Public employment services have some impact while subsidized jobs are not effective at all. Our theory considers ALMP in the context of a search-matching model.
Keywords: Unemployment, active labor market programs, training, subsidized jobs, public employment services
JEL Classification: H55, J65, J68
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