Active Labor Market Policies

By Bruno Crépon, Gerard J. van den Berg. Social Science Research Network, 2016

183 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized controlled trials. In addition, we examine policy effects that have not been the primary object of most of the past evaluations, such as anticipatory effects of advance knowledge of future treatments and equilibrium effects, and we discuss the actual implementation of policies. We discuss the importance of heterogeneity of programs and effects and examine the extent to which potential participants are interested in enrollment. We also discuss the assessment of costs and benefits of programs.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Statistics and Probability

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/90531ea7b818e80d61735414ba2185d2886d4d95

Citations in the corpus

• Rethinking the Benefits of Youth Employment Programs: The Heterogeneous Effects of Summer Jobs (2017, unknown): “Improving employment may in turn increase the opportunity cost of crime or improve other social outcomes, though nonemployment outcomes are often treated as ancillary benefits of improved employment in the literature (Crépon & van den Berg, 2016).”