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Commentary: Active Labor Market Policies to Expand Employment and Opportunity
Labor markets in all Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) economies are under stress. Two main factors generate the pressure, although the precise contributions of these factors to unemployment and wage growth remain to be determined. The first factor is an apparent shift in the bias of technology toward skilled-labor-intensive methods of production. The second factor is...
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This paper addresses four questions. First, is globalization associated with more inequality in consumption or earnings? Second, is the labor market an important transmission mechanism? Third, can labor market policies reduce inequality? And fourth, would these policies have important side effects on efficiency? The answers are based on an analytical survey of the literature, including several ...
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Active labor market policies aim to affect the outcomes – earnings, employment, health, etc. – of those who participate in them. The task of evaluation research lies in devising methods to reliably estimate their effects on those outcomes, so that informed decisions about program expansion and termination can be made. The past thirty years have witnessed real progress in our understanding of ho...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annual Review of Economics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1941-1383,1941-1391
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-economics-080614-115738