LEARNING AS PRECONDITION TO STAY ACTIVE IN LABOUR MARKET FOR ELDER PEOPLE

Labour Market Programmes and Labour Market Outcomes: A study of the Swedish Active Labour Market Interventions

This paper assesses the impact of Swedish welfare-to-work programmes on labour market performance including wages, labour market status, unemployment duration and future welfare-to-work participation. We develop a structural dynamic model of labour supply which incorporates detailed institutional features of these policies and allows for selection on observables and unobservables. We estimate t...

Aboriginal People in Canada’s Labour Market

Active labour market policy as an automatic stabiliser ' John Quiggin

This paper considers the feasibility of a flexible system of active labour market policy which would automatically adjust to the changing phases of the business cycle, and would dispense with the necessity to reinvent systems from scratch in every phase of every cycle. The proposed system would have an expenditure allocation which varied automatically with the levels of short-term and long-term...

“Stay with us”? Emigration and the labour market in Honduras

Previous research has argued that migration forms an essential component to economic convergence between countries, particularly through the labour market. This paper contributes to the debate on the use of the skill cell approach of migration devised by Borjas (2003) by applying it to Honduras in the years following Hurricane Mitch, from 2001 to 2007. Relying on individual cross-sectional data...

Evaluating Active Labour Market Policies Evaluations

In this paper we carry out a meta evaluation of the international evaluation literature regarding active labour market policies (ALMPs). Many attempts have been made to estimate the net impact of reintegration measures on the individual job entry chance. So, the question is what conclusions can be drawn from the literature. How big is the net effect of reintegration measures? Our paper differs ...