Evaluating Active Labour Market Policies, Empirical Evidence for Poland during Transition
Series
ZEW economic studies
ISBN
3-7908-1234-X
Type
book
Date Issued
1999
Author(s)
Abstract
not available in German Most governments in today's market economies spend significant sums of money on labour market programmes. The declared aims of these programmes are to increase the re-employment chances of the unemployed. This book investigates which active labour market programmes in Poland are value for money and which are not. To this end, modern statistical methods are applied to both macro- and microeconomic data. It is shown that training programmes increase, whereas job subsidies and public works decrease the re-employment opportunities of the unemployed. In general, all active labour market policy effects are larger in absolute size for men than for women. By surveying previous studies in the field and outlining the major statistical approaches that are employed in the evaluation literature, the book can be of help to any student interested in programme evaluation irrespective of the particular programme or country concerned. The book can be ordered from Springer Verlag.
Language
English
Keywords
evaluation
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
No
Publisher
Physica-Verlag
Publisher place
Heidelberg
Number
5
Start page
239
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
15315