Effective Active Labor Market Policies

By Jan Boone, J. van Ours. Social Science Research Network, 2004

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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.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• The Determinants of Unemployment across OECD Countries (2007, background): “Consistent with Boone and van Ours (2004), labour market training is the only ALMP category whose negative coefficient appears to be robust across all three estimation methods.”