What Works and for Whom: A Review of OECD Countries' Experiences with Active Labour Market Policies

By John P. Martin, David B Grubb. 2002

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Active Labor Market Policies (2016, background): “Many surveys and overviews have been published in which the available empirical evidence is summarized (see, e.g., Bergemann & Van den Berg 2008, Carcillo & Grubb 2006, Card et al. 2010, Fay 1996, Heckman et al. 1999, and Martin & Grubb 2001).”
The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children. NBER Working Paper No. 13016. (2007, background): “Job training programs targeted at the disadvantaged do not produce high rates of return and fail to lift participants out of poverty (See the evidence in Heckman, LaLonde and Smith; and in Martin and Grubb, 2001).”
The effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany (2004, background): “From their overview of several OECD countries, Martin and Grubb (2001) deduce several reasons.”
Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity (2011, methodology): “…prospects were found occasionally, the overall evidence indicates that the effects of those traditional measures are rather disappointing (see Martin and Grubb, 2001; Dar and Gill, 1998; Dar and Tzannatos, 1999; or Fay, 1996 for evidence on OECD countries and Kluve and Schmidt, 2002 for the…”
Human Capital Policy (2003, neutral): “Source : Martin and Grubb, 2001 T ab le 15 B en efi ts an d C os ts of Jo b C or ps fr om D iff er en t P er sp ec ti ve s P er sp ec ti ve B en efi ts or C os ts So ci et y P ar ti ci pa nt s R es t of So ci et y (1 ) Y ea r 1 -1 ,9 33 -1 ,6 21 -3 13 (2 ) Y ea rs 2- 4 2, 46 2 1, 62 6 83 6 (3 ) A…”
What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes (2008, neutral): “The early literature, which was mainly concerned with labour market training and focused on short to medium-run effects (see the surveys by Fay, 1996; Heckman, LaLonde, and Smith, 1999; Martin and Grubb, 2001; Kluve and Schmidt, 2002), was rather pessimistic about the effectiveness of such programme”
The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany After Unification (2007, positive): “effects; see e.g. Martin and Grubb, 2001 ). Our results confirm this view.”
Is There a Threat Effect of Labour Market Programmes? A Study of ALMP in the Danish UI System (2006, neutral): “This has primarily resulted in research on the outcome of programme participation (Heckman et al., 1999; Martin and Grubb, 2001).”